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Brent's Top Ten Best
Doubles Tips
Tip #1 - "The 80% Rule"
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Top Ten Best Doubles Tips
by Brent Abel
http://www.webtennis.net
"All-Court" Tennis Strategies, Court Positioning, and Stroke Mechanics
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Tip #1 - The 80% Rule of Doubles Court Coverage
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Here's the #1 mistake players make in doubles... they think their priority
should be as a "shot maker" and not a "court position player".
If you understand correct court positioning in doubles, you and your
partner can beat superior singles players... for real.
Get it in your head right now that your job is to constantly get up and
join your partner at net. I don't care about all of the excuses you're
working through your mind right now, the geometry of the court is simply
begging for you and your partner to challenge your opponents from proper
net positions.
Here's the 80% rule of doubles. First of all, you two can never cover 100%
of the court, no matter how quick you are and no matter how tough of a
shot you've presented to your opponents. There's always some part of your
court that is available to your opponents for their shots.
You guys can cover about 80% of the court with good positions at net, and
your job throughout the match is to constantly maintain that 80% coverage.
Once you've done that, then you'll create more put-away opportunities on
balls they hit to you.
You can probably cover slightly more of the court and your opponents'
shots with one of you up at net and one of you back on the baseline, but
you'll rarely get any chances to the end the points with put-aways.
If you and your partner are positioned correctly at net. the shot
selections and placements are really the easy part. Look at the
diagram to the right ---> If you and your partner are the server (S)
and server's partner (SP), you've got positions at net where you can now
realistically cover 80% of your court. Those are goods odds,
especially since you're in a great court position to take advantage of any
shots your opponents hit that are anywhere above the top of the net (tough
deep lobs excepted...).
Here's the sequence... if you're starting the point on or near the
baseline because you're either the server or the returner of serve, you've
got to think of those shots as APPROACH shots and not opportunities to be
the big "shotmaker". You can win points from time to time from back there,
but eventually you'll end up on the losing end.
Doubles players with good net positioning and average volleys will always
prevail over doubles players (so called...!) patrolling the baseline with
good groundstrokes, always...
So work on your serve and return of serve as being "approach" shots.
Be comfortable and take your time with your "transition" shot (the shot
played after your serve or return of serve as you move towards the net)
and most likely played before you reach a good volley position inside the
service line.
And just get your fanny on up to net...!
OK, hope this helps, this takes some time
to figure out, you're gonna make some mistakes as you learn it, so no
sweat, just hang in there and it'll become automatic...!
NEXT TIP: Tip #2... The Role of the Server
Should show up in your email box in about three days...
Remember, feel free to email me at
brent@webtennis.net if you have any questions with this stuff...
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