A lot of recreational players have volleys that can best be described as “dumpy”. Learn why this happens and how to avoid hitting this type of volley in today’s daily lesson with Brady.
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Published on 12/29/2017 by Brady
Excellent!
“by you or at your feet.”
The problem isn’t swinging at volleys, the problem is backswinging at volleys. There’s usually not enough time to let the racket go behind you, and if there is it’s a waste of energy because the power in the volley comes from the transfer of weight from the back foot to the front foot. Short volleys, especially to the backhand, are harder to return than deep volleys because you have to hit them from below the height of the net, get them over the net, and down before the sideline or baseline. Deeper volleys are easier to lob or hit a topspin groundie by your or at your feet.
Good tip Brady. I find I’m more guilty of this on my backhand volleys, where especially in doubles, I see volleys come back to me that I know I should have put away.