It’s a typical doubles scenario whether you are serve and volleying or just coming in on a short ball and highly frustrating having just successfully played one of the hardest shots in the book, only to have your efforts thwarted by a keen net poaching opponent!

As a naïve junior player it was drummed into me,” You must step into the volley! Get forward!” But many years, much experience and research later I discovered that this is not strictly true.

When you play doubles either socially or more on a competitive level what tactics do think about?
Most would think about needing to be sharp at the net, possibly even the need to serve and volley or chip and charge.

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The split step is to allow the player to move in a more efficient and explosive fashion but when exactly do you execute it, read on...