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In today's tennis tip comes from USPTA Elite and PTR Professional, Kenyon Genrette-Oliver.

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Getting this is Kenyon Genrette-Oliver, partner in the Universal Tennis Academy Head Coach

at Agnes Scott College.

This is called the Open Court Drill.

One of the biggest mistakes I think we make when we're playing doubles, it could be at any

level, is when we take the wrong ball to the wrong side of the court.

For instance, if you get a lower ball that's below the net, those are balls that you typically

can't be aggressive on.

That's a ball that you should want to go to the area of the court where you've got more

space.

So go back to the person who's the deepest in the court to buy time.

A lot of times I find that that player ends up going to the net person so they pop a ball

up and then that player is able to close in and put the ball away.

A lot of times when we're getting the high juicier ball, we tend to take that ball all the way

back to the open court.

That's the ball that should be going to the net person to take time away.

Therefore, when we hit the wrong ball to the wrong area of the court, it's different

things happen.

For instance, you get lobbed on a ball that you really could have put the ball away on.

And then you end up losing points because you're not going to write half of the court.

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