STAND YOUR GROUND
April 2024
How often do we or we see players first move after their opponent strikes the ball as “backpedaling”? The feet get “Happy” or “Stutter” and we fall back in order to play the ball at a “comfortable level”. Once we start backward we have ceded control to our opponent and we generally will hit a weak shot. Then the only way we effectively get back in the point is for our opponent to allow us back in.
STAND YOUR GROUND!
It is ok to back up to reposition ourselves but once your opponent has struck the ball do not fall back. Sometimes our opponent hits a really good ball and we have to scramble but all things being equal do not “Give Up Territory” so to speak without your opponent earning it!