"All Court" Tennis Tips & Lessons
Situation: You’re serving and moving up to net behind your serve.
You’ve got to play a transitional shot in between the baseline and the service line.
What’s your #1 question or challenge with this crucial shot in doubles?
Click this link to give me your feedback and get your comp audio interview I did recently with world class writer Joel Drucker.
Thanks,
Brent
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I get this question from time to time, and it’s an important issue for you and your partner in doubles to make sure you’re on the same page.
Which player handles the lob return of serve that is being directed over the server’s partner?
If the server takes it, then usually the server has to allow the lob to bounce first and gets stuck back on the baseline.
If the returner who played the lob is smart, he/she will scoot on up to the net and now the returning team has the net first in that point.
However, if the server’s partner can take responsibility for 90% of those return of serve lobs, they can at least play them back as in-play approach shot overheads as they reclaim their net position.
Check out this video…
One of the big problems the server’s partner can get into is standing too close to the net when the returner plays their return of serve.
If the server’s partner is close to the net, they might be able to pick off a couple of drive returns of serve, but it won’t take the returning team too long to start to lob.
The server’s partner has got to work on a couple of things…
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Got a minute? What’s your #1 most important question about your transitional shot in doubles when you’re serving & coming into net behind that serve? You know that shot. Right after your serve you’ve got to play a shot in between the baseline and the service line.
Give me some feedback and I’ve got a free bonus lesson for you.
Whats’ your #1 challenge with the transitional shot after your serve in doubles? Click here.
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One of the big challenges for me when I’m serving in doubles is to not get ahead of myself.
My mind is churning out so many different scenarios based on what my partner and I might have planned with a poach, fake poach, and what our opponents might do based on their skills and what they’ve shown us so far in the match.
Lots & lots of possibilities…
And specifically, I might even be thinking about my 1st volley, half volley, whatever, before I’ve even played my serve.
Talk about living in the future.
And the reality is the quality of our serves can suffer because we’re not focused on what it is we have to do right now to play a good high quality serve first and foremost.
For me, living in the nano second future typically translates to my pulling me head down a hair too early, and then all kinds of bad things usually happen to my serve mechanics.
Tight hands, short tossing motion so I don’t ever get into a good set up position, pulling down on the ball, and it pretty much gets worse from there.
Ever do that?
What works for me is to focus on one thing that will help insure that a specific serve fundamental happens which is usually to artificially keep looking up at my point of contact a little longer than I think I should…
It’s not a guarantee, but it at least gives me the best chance on that specific serve to play the kind of serve I need at that moment in the match.
So, here it is…
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This Tip’s Related Lessons by Brent
- 1/2 Volleys (Forehand & Backhand) Fundamentals
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