Tennis Doubles Strategy – One-Up at Net Ad Side

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A few weeks ago, we busted a few myths about the rules for doubles tennis in my article “Myth Busting.”  In that post, I concluded that the bottom-line tennis doubles strategy is this: know what your doubles team’s strongest formation is, and find a way to get there as often as possible. Today, we’re going   More >

Psychology in Tennis Unravels the Predator

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When there is someone very aggressive at the net I like to call them the predator. Like any good predator, they are hunting for prey – in this case, tennis balls that they can consume at the net! Fortunately, these predators are human, and a little psychology in tennis can unravel them. Our natural inclination   More >

Tennis Doubles Rules for Double Poaching

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When I was the coach at the University of California at Berkeley, I had a lot of players that loved to poach. Because of that, I had to create some tennis doubles rules for poaching. Poaching is a great doubles tennis strategy, but it requires both partners to know their positioning on the court to   More >

Tennis Doubles Strategy – Avoid the DIVORCE!

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Players always ask me “where is the best tennis doubles positioning?” Now if you are on the court and you are asking yourself a tennis doubles tactics question like that in the middle of a point, then I’d put money on the fact that you are busy thinking, and not busy executing. Here is a   More >

Tennis Doubles Strategy – Myth Busting

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Are there rules for doubles tennis? Besides the obvious ones – like hit the ball over the net, and inside the white lines – we seem to think there are other tennis doubles rules about where we need to position ourselves on the court. Those ‘rules’ have become so prevalent that they have taken on   More >