Scheduled, not vague
Real sessions on real dates between now and your next match — not a wish list. You always know what today’s work is.
Training
A training plan built around your actual game.
Most tennis training plans are a generic drill list. Forge's starts from your game — it breaks down where you stand, finds the gaps holding you back, and turns them into scheduled sessions you actually follow.
It starts with a breakdown of your game
You cannot train what you have not measured. Forge breaks your game into its parts — serve, return, movement, the mental side, how you compete — and grades each against the level you are chasing. The gaps that come back are not opinions; they are what your own matches and assessments show. Those gaps become the plan.
The breakdown uses seven pillars — serve, return, forehand, backhand, movement, tactical, mental — and inside each, the specific skills the next level demands. Honest grading is the operative discipline: not your best forehand on a good day, but the average match version that shows up at 4-all in a third set. That's the one the plan has to address.
Built around your next match, not in the abstract
A plan with no opponent and no date drifts. Forge anchors the plan to the matches ahead of you — a tournament, a ladder match, the next league date — so the work has a real test waiting for it. Four weeks out, the focus is broad and technical. One week out, it sharpens to the patterns the next opponent has tested before, the second-serve placement you need to defend, the routine that has to hold up in a tiebreak.
The plan does not pretend the matches do not exist. It is calibrated to them. What you do on Tuesday changes when the Saturday match changes — because Saturday is the test.
A plan you'll actually follow
Every drill has a target
No "hit some forehands." Every drill carries a measurable target you either hit or you don’t — so progress is honest.
The whole athlete
Every session covers footwork, competitive thinking and the mental game alongside the week’s technical focus.
What's in a week
A useful weekly shape for a serious junior, roughly four court sessions plus a conditioning day:
Technical day
Slow, deliberate work on the block's primary focus. Reps, video, coach feedback. Heart rate low; attention high.
Live-ball day
Drills that simulate match patterns — serve-plus-one, return-plus-one, deep-cross-to-short-line. The focus area now with movement and decision.
Match-play day
Sets played for score. The week's work tested under competition load. Match notes after, while the match is still vivid.
Conditioning + mobility
Not optional. The serve and the late-set movement depend on the body holding up through three sets.
The full process guide walks through how to map a four-week block onto the next set of matches, from diagnosis to re-tune.
It re-tunes as you go
Log a session and the plan adjusts. Win a match that proves a weakness is now a strength, and Forge moves you on. The plan is not a document you print once — it is a living block of work that tracks where your game actually is, week to week.
What that re-tune looks like in practice:
- The gap closed. The skill held up under match pressure. Move it from "training" to "protect"; pick a new focus.
- The gap partly closed. Stay on it; tighten the targets; consider whether the drills are too far from the live-ball version of the skill.
- The gap is wider than you thought. Re-diagnose. New focus area, possibly new drills.
- A new gap surfaced. Add it to the watch list; do not panic-pivot the whole block over one match.
The plan drives where you go next; your growth arc records how far you have come. To pick drills that actually transfer, the drills guide covers what a good measurable target looks like by pillar.
Stop training in the dark.
Forge breaks down your game and turns the gaps into a plan you can follow this week.
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