Abstract: A tennis practice apparatus consisting of an enclosure providing a playing area and having a regulation-height net member at one end located in front of a cage-like structure forming the end of the apparatus. This cage-like structure is arranged to cause a ball passing rearwardly over the net member to drop into the lower portion of the structure, which is concave and which is provided at its lowest point with a conduit connection leading to a pneumatic ball collecting and propelling mechanism having an outlet conduit directed so as to project balls forwardly over the net toward a player. The mechanism has an upper compartment with an inclined ramp element leading to a rotary ball-feeding member operated by a Geneva-type driving system acting to sequentially feed balls into registry with an outlet duct and a valved aperture in a partition wall between said upper compartment and a lower compartment.