| and overhead smash. | | | | Attack with your volleys. Never defend the ball when |
| The net attack is the heavy artillery of tennis. It is | | | | at the net. The defense is only one volley at your feet |
| supposed to crush all defense. As such, it must be | | | | as you come in. It is a mid-court shot. Bursts should win |
| regarded as a point-winning shot at any time, | | | | with placement more than speed, even if the speed |
| regardless of whether the picture is stolen or smash. | | | | May be used on a wide volley. |
| Once on the net affected by the position at the first | | | | Closely linked to the fly, but not a coup volleyball, is the |
| opportunity to get the racquet squarely on the ball. All | | | | general smash. It is the Big Bertha of tennis. It is |
| laws feet explained the drive are theoretically the | | | | long-term terror that should always score. The rules of |
| same in volleying. In practice, you rarely have time to | | | | footwork, position and direction that govern the volley |
| change your feet to a set position, so you can avoid | | | | just for overheads. The swing alone is different. The |
| trouble by throwing the weight on the foot closest to | | | | swing should be closely linked to the tranche of |
| the ball and pushing it in the coup. | | | | service, the racquet and arm swung from the shoulder, |
| Bursts fall into two categories: (1), low volley, from | | | | wrist flexible and snowshoeing inculcate a slight twist |
| below the waist, and (2), the high volley, from the size | | | | of the ball to hold it in court. The overhead is mainly a |
| of the head. Unlike the strike classification plan are the | | | | point winner through speed, since its bounce is so high |
| two styles known as (1), the depth and volleyball (2) | | | | that the slow placement often allows time for a |
| the stop volley. | | | | recovery. |
| All low volleys are blocked. Top salvos May be | | | | Do not jump into the air unnecessarily to hit overhead |
| blocked or hit. Bursts should never be traced. There | | | | balls. Keep at least a foot and if possible two feet on |
| was no response to a low volley and very little on high. | | | | the ground breaking, as AIDS in regulating weight, and |
| You hear much talk of "chop" volleys. A chop stroke is | | | | offers a better balance. Hit flat and decisively to the |
| one where the racquet travels above the line of flight | | | | point, if desired. |
| of the ball, and through him, and the corner behind the | | | | Most plans are missed due to the eye leaving the ball, |
| racket is over 45 degrees, and many approach 90 | | | | but a second category of errors are due to a lack of |
| degrees. This means that I do bursts must be | | | | confidence, which gives a narrow, half-swing. Follow |
| chopped, the tendency is to pop the ball in the air while | | | | overhead through your ball on the edge of your swing. |
| chopping. Slice volleys if you want, or hit flat, for these | | | | The overhead is essentially a double blow in simple |
| two plans are made to a very small angle of the line | | | | because the chances of passing the net man are |
| of flight of the ball, the racket face to travel along | | | | greater than lobbing over his head, while double, two |
| almost its aircraft. | | | | men cover the net so easily that the best way to |
| In all volleys, high or low, the wrist should be locked and | | | | open court lob is a man of return. |
| absolutely rigid. It should always be below the racquet | | | | By breaking the longest distance is the safest shot |
| head, thus bracing the racquet against the impact of | | | | since it allows greater margin for error. Therefore, |
| the ball. Enable the force of the new ball, plus your | | | | cross-court smash when pressed, but pull your short |
| own weight, to return the ball and not try to "wrist" in | | | | lobs either side as determined by the man you play. |
| reverse. The tilted racquet face will, if necessary, at | | | | Never file a lob you can hit overhead, because it |
| the corner of return by glancing the ball off the strings, | | | | forces you to return and give the position to attack |
| so no wrist turn is needed. | | | | your opponent. Never crush with a reverse twist, |
| Low volleys can never be hardest hit, and because of | | | | always hit with a racket and directly opposite the |
| the height of the net should usually be strongly inclined | | | | opening. |
| to allow distance for the climb. Any ball met at a level | | | | Closely linked to overloading, since it is customary for |
| higher than the top of the net May be hardest hit. The | | | | the defense to break hard, is the lob. |
| coup must be crisp, snappy, and decisive, but it must | | | | A lob is a toss of the ball landing between the service |
| end because it meets the ball. Monitoring should be | | | | line and the baseline. An excellent lob should be within |
| very low. Lowest rounds should be short and sweet. | | | | 6 feet of the baseline. |
| Most high volleys require speed and length. | | | | Lobs are essentially defensive. The ideas of lobbing |
| The "stop" volley is nothing more than a blocked shot | | | | are: (1) to give you time to recover position when out |
| short. There was no force used. The racquet simply | | | | of court by your opponent shot; (2) to reduce the net |
| meets the ball oncoming and it stops. The ball | | | | man and break his attack (3) tire your opponent; (4) on |
| rebounds and falls of its own weight. There is little | | | | the occasion, the victory by net investment. This is |
| bounce to such a coup, and that May be reduced by | | | | usually a lob volley near a net rally, and is slightly |
| allowing the racquet to slide slightly under the ball at | | | | different stroke. |
| impact and inculcate Back Spin of the ball. | | | | It is (1) the chop lob, seriously under-cut spin looming in |
| Volleying is a science based on the old geometric | | | | the air. This is the best defensive lob, as it is high and |
| axiom that a straight line is the shortest distance | | | | give sufficient time to recover position. (2) The stroke |
| between two points. I mean volleyer must always | | | | or flat lob lob, hit with a slight top spin. This is the |
| cover straight from the ball because it is the shortest | | | | point-winning lob since it gives no time for the player to |
| shot with which to pass him, and he must volley | | | | run around him, as it is smaller and faster than the |
| directly to its opening and not waste time trying | | | | chop. In making this lob, start your swing like a drive, but |
| freakish bursts curves that give Base-line time to | | | | allow the racquet to slow down and inclination rising as |
| recover. He is the right Johnston volley that makes him | | | | you meet the ball. This coup should rarely go above 10 |
| a dangerous man net. It is always "punching" his volley | | | | feet in the air because it tends to go out with the float |
| right and difficult to open his opponent of the court. | | | | of the ball. |
| A net player must have bursts to reach the net. Do | | | | Chop lob, which is a decided under cut, should rise |
| not think of a service and volley enough to the first | | | | from 20 to 30 feet or more high and must go deep. It |
| class tennis. | | | | is better to lob and run your opponent back, thus tiring |
| Strive to kill your volleys at once, but your photo will | | | | him, than to lob short and give him confidence by a |
| not win, follow the ball "and cross again cover the ball | | | | simple kill. The value of a lob is mainly to disrupt your |
| straight. Always the strength of the man you're trying | | | | opponent, and its effects are very visible if you put off |
| to play the shot possible. | | | | unexpectedly one in the crucial period of a match. |