How to Beat the Lob or Pusher in Doubles

Today we discuss one of the most common questions from listeners of the show – how do I beat a team that lobs? How do I defend against the pusher?

There are three key points we cover to help you with this:

• Practice your overheads!
• How do we defend or position ourselves against the lob?
• How do we prevent the lob in the first place?

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Show Notes from this Podcast

Here are some of the things I mention in this podcast episode:

• Improve your overheads with these videos.
  • Tennis Overhead Smash – How To Hit The Perfect Smash In 3 Steps
  • How to Hit BETTER Overheads
  • More overhead video lessons
  • One tip that helped my overheads is to accelerate my racquet up towards the ball. I always had tried throwing my racquet in the direction of the target toward the other side of the net, but that created a loss of power. Now, I focus on throwing my racquet up towards the ball and generate more power as a result.
• Listen: Podcast Interview with Gigi Fernandez
• Video: How To Beat A Lobber In Doubles In 3 Steps [Seek & Destroy Strategy!]
• Blog Post: Women’s Tennis Blog: Doubles tennis tips: How to finally beat the lobber