Do you want to use a reliable baseline single strategy that you can use against any player
that will allow you to play patient, solid tennis, and keep your opponents guessing?
Well, I have a powerful lesson to show you today that will help you.
Hi, this is Jeff Salzenstein, USTA High Performance Coach, and former top 100 ATP player.
And in this lesson, I'm going to show you a strategy called "two-one ground stroke pattern"
that will get you playing smart, more confident tennis from the baseline.
Let's get you that video lesson right now.
In this lesson, we're going to go over what I call the two-one pattern
and what that means is you're going to play two balls cross-court
and then on the third ball
you're going to go down the line
and this is an offshoot of the 1-1 pattern
where we talked about playing one ball cross-court and then one ball down the line.
Now, we're going two cross-court, and this is just a more patient pattern.
You're developing the point, you're taking a little bit more time to make sure that you're balanced
and you're hitting the ball cross-court enough before you change direction.
Sometimes, players change direction too early
whether it's the first ball after the serve or the return, and they go down the line, they miss
or they try it after that first ball cross-court and they make errors.
So, I like to add another shot to it.
So, you're going to see here, one ball goes cross-court
the second ball goes cross-court
and now, we're looking to go down the line here on that third shot to get the opponent on the move.
So, let's go ahead and look at that pattern again.
So, this first ball, again, is going to go cross-court nice and deep, the ball went here
cross-court and deep, comes back again
patience, comes back in the same part of the court
and now, look. Let's notice something about this particular shot. He is outside
almost outside the single sideline right here.
Okay, so, in most situations, that ball should go high cross-court or high down the line
but what's interesting is that
even though you might have to cover more distance and run more to cover the next shot
if you change direction, your opponent isn't expecting it.
So, if you execute the shot, in this case, because he's outside the single sideline
you want to direct this ball towards the middle more, okay?
You want this ball to be in this part of the court.
You do not want to play it close to the line.
Danger zone over there when you play close to line.
So, the further out that you go, the more you have to bring the ball back, back towards the middle, okay?
So, I would call it middle down the line instead of down the line on the sideline.
So, you'll notice that the trajectory of this ball, it comes back towards, comes back towards Mad here.
Now, Simon executed so well, again, I hope he wasn't aiming this close to the line
but he actually landed this ball about a foot from the sideline, too close for comfort
but what I like is that again, the ball was coming back towards the middle.
So, you're hitting this shot, again, not with the intention of hitting a winner.
You're hitting this shot with the intention of surprising your opponent.
Now, Mads is on the other side here. He has a decision to make.
He knows that he has a lot of room here. If he can get over and hit an angle
then that's too good, and maybe this pattern won't work as well
but because he hits, because Simon hits such a great shot down the line
he's going to stretch Mads out
and Mads is just going to have to go to the slice and float it back.
So, it was the surprise element, not ready for the down the line that
forced Mads to have to float a slice back, and that's what we're looking for:
that change of direction that they're not used to.
And now, Simon again can go anywhere he wants.
If the ball would have come back here
Simon could have actually run over and just knocked the backhand down the line and kept Mads on the run
but because Mads went down the line, now again, Simon…
and my first choice is that Simon would hit an angle here and run him as well
but Simon likes to play behind his opponent, which you can do
and he ends up going back down the line, and hits a winner.
So, the moral of the story is be patient with the two shots cross-court before you change direction
and then when you do change direction, make sure you're aiming for the safe part of the court
and then once you do that, you can anticipate where that next ball's going to come back
and keep your opponent on the move or hit behind him.
We're looking at the backhand side now, and the whole point of this pattern
again, just like the forehand, it's to play 2 balls cross-court, and then change direction down the line.
This is a pattern that I would use with all high-level pros, college players, but even rec players
it's just to be aware that you want to to look to change direction after two balls.
You can do it after 1, but sometimes, that feels a little rushed
and then if I start to see players hit 4, 5, 6 balls cross-court
and it's working, that's great.
But a lot of times, people get crossed up because they just stay in this pattern too long
and then their opponent is the one that beats them down the line, and then they're scrambling on the next ball.
So, we want to be pro-active with our tennis, and do it in a safe way with good margins.
So, this first backhand is going to go cross-court pretty deep.
This next one actually was hit with great angles.
So now, the court is open, you see the easy opening to go down the line there.
So, this is an example of where that first ball goes cross.
Now, the second ball, great angle hit here.
Now, this is an obvious one: anytime you can get the ball to go off the single sideline
before it crosses the baseline
anytime you can get that to happen, that should be a cue for you to hit the next ball down the line
because you've got your opponent over in this area of the court.
You'll see him move over, and look where he is: he is in the alley, stretched out, reaching for that ball.
That is an obvious down the line shot on the next ball
and what's cool, again, as we've talked about before
is that you just want to make sure you hit a very aggressive shot to this part of the court.
You're not even playing with that single sideline.
You don't want the ball to miss wide here, because you're in position
you've got your opponent on the move, but again, notice what happens with Simon here.
He's got this down the line opening, and he's going to catch it a little late.
I know he wasn't aiming for the line, but that ball hit smack on the lot
and so then, when people are watching the pros play and they see that happening
they think "Oh my gosh, the pros are so great. They aim for the line"
I can tell you right now from all my experience with playing on the tour and working with great coaches
the pros are aiming here, and they're aiming a good two to three feet from the single sideline
unless they're really feeling it, because they want to build in margins for error
So, this was a mistake, that the ball landed on the line for a clean winner.
And rec players, whenever I ask you guys where you're aiming, you'll put…
you'll put your target area down very close to the line. That's a big mistake.
So, just make sure when you go down the line, you've got big, safe targets, but don't push the ball down the line.
Give it a ride, swing at it, and get a good cut at the ball.
So, to recap, play twice cross-court, two balls cross-court
if you open up the angle and you see that angle open
that's your cue to go down the line with safe margins, but swing aggressively
and you're going to win a lot of points when you change direction this way.
I love when players use this powerful ground stroke strategy to stay consistent
while still keeping their opponents off balance.
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