Penn State tennis player Mark Barry gives an instructional on how to volley like the pros. Mark outlines 5 of the more important elements in hitting a proper volley. For more exclusive college sports news, turn to CSTV.com/video

Want to hit volleys like Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Justine Henin? Then watch these advanced practice drills from intosport.com to work on your technique and the attacking elements of your game. Why not progress and check out the drive volley and lob videos from intosport.com.

Keeping the Racquet at Eye Level

Vary Your Volleys - provided by tennisdrills.tv.

Backhand Volley with Nick Bollettieri

Great instruction from Tennis.com about the drop volley. 

Drill starts out with two players on the service line. One player feeds the ball in while they each close the net and try to finish the point. The goal of this drill is to work on reacting to the ball, closing the net, and proper footwork for playing the net. This drill is great for practicing your volleys

This video talks about the first move to the volley.  Many players pivot and lock the feet.  Gustavo demostrates this common mistake and how to efficiently move forward for the volley.

This video shows the transition from the baseline to the net using a doubles position.  The split step is what allows a player to explode to the next shot.   

The poach is a job for both the net player and the server. This article will outline the roles of  the server and the net player.

This articles is a must for players who are within their first several months of playing tennis or for players at any level who have never taken a lesson.  This article lays out the fundamentals of the stroke and is an absolute must.

Coming to the net immediately after a serve is a great way to mix things up in your singles play, and something that everybody should be doing most of the time in their doubles play.

This week's article is about why you need to be at the net as much as possible in your doubles play. In lower level and intermediate team practices that I teach there seems to be a constant debate over whether coming to the net all the time is good or not

The best volleys in the world are not a full swing, but a firm block of the ball...

The notion that you can volley effectively without changing your grip at all between your forehand and backhand volleys is somewhat inaccurate. Although many professionals volley without rotating the grip between the thumb and forefinger, there is some change at the heel of the hand.

The key to hitting a great shot in tennis is preparation.  If a player is unprepared for a shot, the ball will not go where they expect.  In fact, the result may be an out of control shot.   This article addresses preparation and the importance of a split step.  For those players that are unfamiliar with the split step, I will give an in-depth explanation and talk about when it should be used.