Challenges

I have been playing tennis for years on a clay court. Recently I played on a hard-court and found my game was a lot faster. I challenge you to play a 3 or 5 set match on a clay, grass and hard-court court. Be warned this is not easy and depending on the sur...

An LTA (Lawn tennis association) players rating is a way of measuring your tennis ability, so you can see how you are improving and it ensures you are competing in the right standard of competitions. This challenge is for all standards and the aim is to imp...

This is a great challenge for improving your consistency. The goal is to achieve a 20 stroke cross-court forehand rally with your practice partner. The ball must land in the forehand court, between the service line and baseline, tramlines are ok. It's not a...

Get inspired by Wimbledon! It's the time of year when everyone thinks about digging out the tennis racket from the back of the cupboard. The idea in this challenge is get all your friends involved and organise a tennis tournament at your local courts. The f...

Make yourself king at the net and play a whole set without missing a volley.

The challenge is to successfully complete a match of ‘American Doubles’, the game finishes when one player reaches 6 points. ‘American Doubles’ is played with the same rules to a normal game of tennis, but because you play with three players and you rotate...

A golden set in tennis is one that is one without dropping a single point. Yes, not a single point! It's only been done once in the professional game - but in club or social tennis there is more chance of it happening when there is a mismatch of players....

Play a epic organised game of tennis for more than four hours.

This is a great challenge for improving your consistency. The goal is to achieve a 20 stroke cross-court backhand rally with your practice partner. The ball must land in the backhand court, between the service line and baseline, tramlines are ok. It's not a...

A great challenge to do with your practice partner. You'll need to be light on your toes and ready to react quickly to take the volley on either your forehand or backhand side. Half-volleys not allowed in this challenge, the ball must not bounce!

A 40 stroke rally can be difficult enough on a whole court, but keeping the ball within the tramlines is much harder! This challenge is for everyone, you must start on the baseline with either a forehand or backhand, the ball must bounce once between each s...

To attempt this challenge you need alot of patient and a steady hand. It has to be in a competitive game of tennis and not in practice, the challenge is to rally with your opponent for more than 100 shots, it does not matter what kind of shot if the point b...

Whether you play regularly with friends or more competitively, this challenge is for those who want to try something different on the court! How to play: You need 6 people+, form two lines one at each baseline, once you have hit the ball you run round the n...

Serve two consecutive aces in the same game doubles or singles.

An simple alternative to the mainstream game, the key to touchtennis lies not in manipulating the ball with raw power but rather with deft stroke-play and chess-like maneuvers. Played on a reduced size court with foam balls and 21 inch racquets, its caref...

with a partner, stand between the service line and the net. you will feed the ball to your partner. the receiver will "catch the ball" and bounce it back to the other person across the net. the key is to send the ball directly back to the other person ac...