Season #24 Episode: #27 Shaun Boyce and Ben Hestley

In this episode of Gotennis’s Atlanta Tennis Podcast, Ben Hestly dives deep into the often-overlooked but effective strategy of holding return. This skill is crucial in ensuring success particularly if you are competing at the B or C or Junior level. Join Shaun, as he listens to the Ben Hestley tennis tip.

Our Expert:

Ben Hestley: He is a USPTA certified tennis professional coach. He is currently working with the Bull Shark Sports. GPTA named Ben the Independent Tennis Professional of the Year, 2022 for creating a tennis program at neighborhood facilities for nearly 150 kids. He has huge experience in working at the junior level.

Understanding the Efficacy of Holding The Return

• Hold return: Holding your return is a strategy when your opponent is at service and you try to score by breaking the service. It is a technique where you can use an opportunity meant for your opponent to your advantage.
• Potency: Holding return can be effective at all levels but it is especially potent at the B, C or Junior level tennis. At these stages of tennis, the service is often the least developed tennis skill in players. So, once your opponent has done the serve and  then a powerful and well-placed return can immediately put the server at the baseline and stop him/her from further attack and be on defense.

Other Implications

• Mastering your hold on return cultivates aggressive mindset in returns
• It facilitates attacking mentality, confidence and consistency in all levels of players

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Hey, hey, this is Shaun with the Atlanta Tennis Podcast,

powered by GoTennis.

Today's tennis tip comes from Coach Ben Hesley

of Bull Shark Sports.

Have a listen and let us know what you think.

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Hi, this is Ben Hesley from Bull Shark Sports.

Today's tip, we're gonna be focused on holding return.

Holding return means winning our return games.

Very similar to how you hear holding surf,

we're focused on winning the games

in which someone is serving to us.

In B and C, out to levels and low levels

of junior competition, this is often the case

because the surf is developmentally weaker

than other parts of players' games.

So it presents an opportunity to take advantage

of our opponent's surf and then break their surf

or what we like to call holding return.

So when you're out there playing,

think about how you can take advantage

of that weaker surf, attack that,

and then hold your return.

Holding return is a concept maybe something I've not heard,

but holding return is really, really viable

in order to win matches at those B and C,

out to levels and those lower levels

of junior competition.

I hope this helps.

I hope that you learn to attack people's surf,

be aggressive and hold return.

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