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In today's tennis tip comes from USPTA Elite and PTR Professional, Kenyon Genrette-Oliver.
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Have a listen and let us know what you think.
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Getting this is Kenyon Genrette-Oliver, partner in the Universal Tennis Academy Head Coach
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at Agnes Scott College.
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This is called the Open Court Drill.
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One of the biggest mistakes I think we make when we're playing doubles, it could be at any
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level, is when we take the wrong ball to the wrong side of the court.
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For instance, if you get a lower ball that's below the net, those are balls that you typically
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can't be aggressive on.
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That's a ball that you should want to go to the area of the court where you've got more
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space.
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So go back to the person who's the deepest in the court to buy time.
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A lot of times I find that that player ends up going to the net person so they pop a ball
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up and then that player is able to close in and put the ball away.
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A lot of times when we're getting the high juicier ball, we tend to take that ball all the way
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back to the open court.
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That's the ball that should be going to the net person to take time away.
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Therefore, when we hit the wrong ball to the wrong area of the court, it's different
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things happen.
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For instance, you get lobbed on a ball that you really could have put the ball away on.
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And then you end up losing points because you're not going to write half of the court.
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