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November 12, 2003 Audio message from Brent.
Just turn on your speakers... Hi and many thanks for your continued support and interest in my newsletter, website, and my desire to help you with your tennis. I do hope this finds you well. The activity at WebTennis.net recently has been nothing short of astonishing...! Lots of visitors, lots of questions, lots of interest. I love it...! This week's tip is on a basic doubles concept and that is to make sure that you and your partner are playing as a team, not merely two individuals out there. It sounds simple and obvious, but what I've found is this, the partner playing the hot doesn't focus enough on how they can hit a shot that sets up their partner for a put-away opportunity and conversely, the partner not hitting the shot doesn't do a good enough job recognizing when their partner has hit a shot that does set them up... (Man, talk about a run-on sentence, take a breath Brent...). And that's how it goes, not enough 'feel' between partners, not knowing that your partner is trying to hit a shot that will give you an opportunity to put yourself in a great place on the court to end the point. I see it way too often, where
the returner of serve hits a well placed low That returner's partner has to anticipate that the server will be playing their shot off of their shoe tops back up to get it over the net. The safest place is for that shot to go back away from the returner's partner and back towards the returner. So if you're the returner of serve's partner, you've got to have some guts and get out in the middle of the court anticipating the server's shot will be there for you. If you wait and never move, the chances are slim that the server will actually pop their shot back up right to you... You've got to go get it... And once your team establishes in the minds of the serving team that you guys love to move (either go out in the middle to cut off upward shots or fake movement (another topic we definitely need to explore), then slight movement by the returner's partner may be enough to distract and bother the server on their low or 1/2 volley. If you lose some points along the way, so be it, those are simply individual points lost, not the entire match. If you're the returner of serve and you hit a nice low cross court return and your partner anticipates the pop up in the middle, goes out there and misses the volley, hey, it's just one point, so be sure to tell your partner "nice move, way to get out there, no problem" so your partner is not discourage from trying again and your opponents hear the two of you reaffirming your commitment to move at net. That comment immediately after a missed volley can have a tremendous psychological effect on your opponents... Yep, you lost that one point, but you may have just set you and your partner up for easily winning many points in the future... OK, hope you enjoyed this tip, have fun out there, and keep moving...! Brent NEW Doubles Instructional Product - Online and CD...! "Your Top Ten Biggest
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cross court shot right at the incoming server's feet and then the returner's
partner just stands there never recognizing that the server has to literally
hit their shot on an upward angle. If the server pops their shot up
directly to the returner's partner, then fine, but that doesn't happen that
often.
