|
Written by John Debnam
|
|
Tuesday, 03 April 2007 07:04 |
Who is Steve Tourdo?
Steve is a professonal teacher and speaker who has held world rankings in both singles and doubles. He started teaching tennis at the age of 16 when a local business owner asked his help. Since then, he has taught thousands of players and coaches his simple systems for improving tactics and stroke production. His strength is in breaking complicated concepts down into simple pieces so students can improve quickly and easily. His favorite saying: "The pros make it look easy- BECAUSE IT IS!"
His monthly tennis tip will be published on the site, and this is the tip for April.
The Smash
There's nothing worse than playing lobbers when you don't know how to handle them. Habitual lobbers are acting this way because they are rewarded for lobbing.
The best way to get lobbers to stop lobbing is to get an overhead. If you have a strong overhead and they're still lobbing, it's because that's all they can do or they have no fear of your overhead because you don't know how to end the point.
To end the point with your overhead, do one of two things:
1. Angle the ball off the court
2. Hit to the alley of the closest opponent.
It's very helpful to know how your court position is affecting their tendency to lob. Positioning yourself one third of the way from the service line to the net is considered a neutral lobbing environment. You're not encouraging or discouraging the opponents lob tendency. This is where you position yourself when you know they want to lob.
When playing doubles, both you and your partner should take positions side by side on the service line and play from there.
Typically, lobbers are deep in the court so overheads down the middle are less potent than angles off the court. However, if their lob is deep to your transition zone (area behind the service line) hit down the middle. Then wait for another lob you can angle off the court from inside the net zone.
Handling lobbers is easy because they can't hurt you. Learn how to position yourself and angle the ball off the court from the net zone.
(For a complete strategy for handling lobbers, study chapter 11 in Unlimited Doubles!! It provides a nice system for taking on lobbers and crushing them like grapes!)
Best wishes for never-ending improvement,
Steve
If you want to learn how easy it is to improve, check out these products by Steve Tourdo:
Unlimited Doubles!!
Finally... a SYSTEM for out-playing your opponents in doubles. Anytime. Anywhere. GUARANTEED
Unlimited Strokes!!
How to add ACCURACY, CONSISTENCY and POWER to your Tennis Strokes.
View products here:
http://www.unlimitedtennis.com
Unlimited Tennis
California, USA
http://www.unlimitedtennis.com
Experience The Difference.
|
Tweet me!
