1. Get your first serve in!
2. See tip one and read it three more times. Never request this of your partner during match play because they will double fault.
3. Serve down the "T" to set up poaches for your net partner.
4. Use signals: fist for fake poach, open hand to poach, or one finger (poach on first serve), two finger (poach on second serve), open hand poach on both serves, or the fist (fake on both serves). The server should acknowledge the signal with a yah or no (change the signal). Another way is a quick discussion between points.
Verbal communication should be used between points when needed to develop your tactics as the match develops.
5. One up and one back strategy works if the other team plays that way.
The net player must be ready to poach cross court balls often.
6. When you are up by one or more points in a game, serve and volley or return serve and volley to put "quick pressure" on your opponents and to play aggressively. Returning serve and staying back is called "delayed pressure."
7. Put volleys away to the short side (the player standing closer to the net).
This becomes a "free ride" to the net for your baseline partner.
8. Discuss the weaknesses and strenghts of your opponents with your partner; the little guy is fast and the big guy has a nasty forehand but hasn't hit a backhand today.
9. When in trouble lob and your partner should back up as much as the point will allow.
10. If your partner returns well, poach off the return of serve.
11. Position yourself to hit your best groundstrokes and volleys cross court.
12. When both players are at the net and you are back, hit the ball low "down the middle" or lob. The are exceptions: the alley is open, that guy has a weak hig backhand volley...etc.
13. Hit your volleys cross court unless you have a put-away attempt.
14. Use the "I" formation to throw off a good return of serve.
15. Take a lesson from Kevin Pease.............this is only the beginning.
Your pro in the trenches,
Kevin Pease
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