You want to get better, but your hitting partner cancelled, the courts are full, or your schedule only lines up at odd hours. Sound familiar? Here’s the good news: you can make real progress on your own. Solo practice is one of the most underrated ways to improve — if you do it with a plan.
Pick one thing to work on.
Solo sessions are perfect for focus. Choose a single skill — your serve, your dinks, your forehand drive — and give it your full attention instead of trying to fix everything at once.
Get real repetitions.
Improvement comes from reps, and lots of them. The challenge with practicing alone is keeping a steady feed of balls coming so you’re actually hitting, not chasing. Anything that keeps balls flowing — a wall, a rebounder, a ball machine — turns idle time into productive reps.
Work on footwork and consistency.
Alone, you control the pace, which makes it a great time to groove your movement and build consistency. Focus on clean contact and repeatable mechanics rather than winning a point.
Track your progress.
Count how many you land in a row, or out of ten, and try to beat it next time. Turning practice into a game with yourself keeps you motivated and shows you’re improving.
Keep it short and frequent.
Ten to twenty focused minutes, done often, beats an occasional marathon session. Frequency is what builds skills that stick.
The easy way to get endless reps
The hardest part of solo practice is keeping the balls coming. That’s exactly what the Infinity Play System with the Multi-Twist Mini Ball Machine is built for — a patent-pending self-feeding design that continually shoots balls for you to hit into a net that feeds them right back into the machine. Five adjustable settings, up to 15 balls, and it works for both tennis and pickleball, right in your garage or driveway. Endless reps, no partner required.
See the Infinity Play System:
https://oncourtoffcourt.com/infinity-play-system-with-the-multi-twist-mini-ball-machine/
Kalindi Dinoffer is trained in multiple aspects of mindfulness in life and in sports, sharing on her blog MindfulKalindi.com. She is also certified to teach yoga, fitness, reiki, and MFR. Kalindi also serves as CMO at OnCourtOffCourt.com, a leading supplier of tennis, pickleball, fitness and yoga training aids and equipment and has been published in Tennis industry Magazine and Pickleball Magazine, and has conducted workshops at conferences around the world. In her spare time, Kalindi plays tennis, pickleball and table tennis and enjoys outdoor activities such as hiking and biking and cross country skiing in the winter.
