The connection between RAQTS and the court.

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It’s important to understand why RAQTS help in development.

Intangibles is an illusive quality for players to have and RAQTS can help developing it. Tempo, pace, angle, and control etc is practiced in “overdrive” with more repetitions in a shorter time.

Below we have also listed some of the On Court drills that correspond with different RAQTS modes. Please let us know if you have any additional sets of drills for On Court relating to RAQTS or new RAQTS drills. If used, we will name the drills in a name you desire and make you a RAQTS NAVIGATOR.


Direction (moving and shrinking target)

  • Hit balls in the alley. Compete first to a certain amount of balls made or count together as a team to a set number.

  • Hit the line, first to x hits.

  • The “Envelope”. One player hits down the line and one cross court.

  • Drop feed and hit to targets on the court.

  • Targets on the court in general.


Height (Depth) (moving and shrinking target)

  • Hit over a rope stretched from net post to net post 2-5 feet above the net

  • Hit over and below rope

  • Make a game out of how deep ball lands. 1 pt for inside service line, 2 pts past service line, 3 past blue line.

  • Hit with Height over the net in order to have the ball land deep (if you have small court lines on the court, aim past the last one before the full court baseline.)


Pure Aim (moving and shrinking target)

  • Envelope

  • Play points

  • Hit to the player to keep ball going

  • Move across the court to hit

  • Put down racquet inside baseline and your training partner does the same. To try to hit.



Still Aim (Stationary target)

  • Drop feed and hit to targets on the court

  • Hit to the player to keep ball going

  • One player volleying and one hitting from baseline keeping it going

  • Coach is up at net, student playing to him/her to keep ball going. 

  • Targets on the court.

  • Put down racquet inside baseline and your training partner does the same. To try to hit.

    These are just a few sample drills that connect the RAQTS modes to training on the court. Please let us know of others you feel translate well here