Pac Sun Season
Kickoff Camp
Pac Sun Season
Kickoff Camp
The Pac Sun season
What are we offering?
Why should the ladies sign up?
The work
Nobody gives consistency the credit it deserves. Players give poaches, winners up the line, the pretty trick shot too much credit. YES, they are all part of it. But in order to hit a winner, players will have to have hit at least ONE quality shot before going for a put away.
Learn how to eliminate most of your opponents' options so that you and your partner can cover what's more likely to happen. In other words, force your opponents to hit the lower-percentage shots by positioning yourself in the right spot.
There is almost always a right shot to hit, and it depends on the moment. Learning how to read the scenario and recognize whether to defend or attack during a point is what shot selection is all about. When you pick the right ball at the right time, the game gets a lot simpler.
When you combine consistency, shot selection, and court positioning, strategies become way more straightforward than how they are perceived in tennis. Without consistency, court positioning and shot selection, the strategies do not exist. Learn how to finally build real strategies together.
The format
A casual intro before we start, whether we run one court or three. We walk through what the morning looks like and set up the first drill. Nothing formal.
Four drills, four pros. We explain each drill on court, right before it starts: what it is for, what you get from it, what to do.
We bring everyone in and we talk about: consistency, positioning, shot selection, strategy. Short and punchy, then back on court.
We will be playing points based on scenarios that come up most often in match situations.
A supervised round robin. Try a new partner or play with your season partner, while a coach watches, takes notes, and gives you feedback.
We bring it in, recap what you worked on, send you off with real encouragement and a few numbers that matter, and Mark closes it out.
Live Ball
There's no better place to try out new things than live ball, because everything is short-lived in live ball. Players don't have to get self-conscious or feel bad about letting their partners down, because they're playing with different partners all the time.
Poaching may be one of the hardest things to learn in doubles. A lot of people don't poach because they're worried about getting passed down the line, or they hesitate and miss the ball. None of that should happen in live ball.
Live ball is the perfect opportunity for players to be more courageous and adventurous with their shot selection. There's no serving, so the points are short and nothing is cumulative. It becomes totally fine to try things you normally wouldn't try in your matches or even in your friendlies. And because there's no serving, all the dead time of picking up balls disappears: the points are quick, the rotations are quick, and players find a rhythm — which makes it that much easier to poach, rip a ball from time to time, and be more aggressive.