Golly what’s happened to the Volley?

I played in a top class doubles match at the weekend for my club, my first for about 10 years. I was pleasantly surprised that I could still compete at this level despite my lack of match fitness and practice.

Confidence & Control
I put this down to the confidence I have in my ability through learning and teaching these modern tennis methods. Although the last 10 years I have concentrated on just teaching, the new MTI system helped me concentrate on timing and feel throughout these 3 tough matches I played. I must admit since employing these methods I find my best tennis is always close by.

Vertical Power
The biggest difference I noticed was that the good players were happy to stay back and crash huge ground strokes at the net players and win most of the time. Whereas when I last played at this level everyone served and volleyed!

Volleying the ball was really tough...at first
The ball was zipping really fast and at first I found that I just couldn’t control my volleys as I wasn’t used to this amount of power.

Hit with Spin to Win
The secret to my being successful against these whipping boys was to hold on to ball longer and to hit my volleys, not just field it back or defend but to actually impart spin on the ball so my volley stung them back! All you do is make sure you aim the ball and try to hit your volley there stopping the racket on contact with ball. (Don’t just field the ball to a target or float it back or you will get mullered!)

The Lost Art of the Volley
I believe that in tennis in general the volley has become a lost art. We at MTI believe all shots should be worked on all the time and the volley can be the way to beat these fantastic hard hitting back court players. Playing at the net is hell of a lot of fun too!

3 Solutions
The 3 areas that need to be worked on are the, the first volley or half volley after a serve, the approach shot and simple volley execution.

If approach shots are hit with too much topspin you are inviting a pass. So either hit harder with a little less topspin or slide the ball with slice or side spin aimed accurately and with guile are your best bet to deal with these shots, then move in and sting those volleys with spin!

You can find out much more of these winning techniques at http://www.playmoderntennis.com/ have a look they are giving away a FREE eBook on this amazing confidence boosting system at the moment.

Remember -Track it with your racket

Until next time warmest regards John

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