Add Consistency to Your Return of Serve

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For a Consistent Return of Serve, Get to Know Your Routine UC Berkeley Hall of Fame Coach Jan Brogan has often been asked, “How do those servers or receivers stay so calm, cool, and collected regardless of the score on their serve and on their return?” When you’re returning serve, it’s critical to establish an   More >

A red hot doubles return for your game

Martha Downing, by Pat Parsons

Chip’n Charge Lob Return.  Wow, that’s a mouthful.  Here’s a way to mix up your return of serve on the doubles court AND take away the advantage from the serving team.  I see so many league players go on “auto pilot” with their doubles return of serve.  I’d say roughly 90% of the returns go   More >

Return of Serve Tennis Techniques

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If you think of your return of serve tennis stroke as a routine that you do every time you return a serve, you’ll be much more confident and successful. Different players have different techniques for tennis return of serve that make up their routines. Some walk up and back over the baseline, some sway back   More >

Countering the Lob Return of Serve

Countering Lob Return

You love doubles.  You hate the lob.  So what should you do as the serving team in doubles if your opponents keep lobbing back their return of serve? The lob return of serve is a great tactic – check out this post.  It often creates big problems for the serving team, they feel frustrated, disorganized   More >

Why the Deuce Player needs to Lob

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90% of tennis players are right handed. If you play on the deuce side this means that you can lob over their backhand overhead and to the baseliners backhand side (0.9 x 0.9 = 81%). The chance that the ad side player has a left at net is 10%. Its really important that you use   More >