About this episode

This episode focuses on the return of serve in doubles tennis, discussing its importance, common mistakes, and effective practice strategies.

This is another AMA episode where I focus on the return of serve. Perhaps the most important shot in doubles, and certainly the least practiced. I break down why the return of serve is misunderstood and how I think about practicing and implementing effective returns. I also dig into consistency, targets, patterns, deuce vs ad court, and tactics for the return. Why returns and groundstrokes are not the same thing.One common mistake that you should fix to reduce return errors.The two bigg...

People in this episode

Host: Will Boucek

Topics covered

• return of serve
• doubles tennis
• tactics
• practice
• consistency
• targets

Keywords

• return of serve
• doubles
• tennis tactics
• practice
• consistency
• targets
• backhands
• lobs
• spin

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