Padel tactics explained
Where to stand and when to move in padel doubles: both at the net, lob and take the net, defending the smash, serving and returning patterns and calling the…
Padel tactics
- Both at the net
- Both at the back, together
- The one up, one back problem
- How far from the net to stand
- How far from the back glass to stand
- Who takes the ball down the middle
- Sliding across with the ball
- The drive side and the revés side
- Calling mine and yours
- Moving as a pair: the rope
- Lob and take the net
- Defending against a pair at the net
- Getting the net back after their lob
- Switching sides when a lob goes over your partner
- Using the bandeja to keep the net
- The chiquita to win the net
- Volleying at the feet of a player moving in
- Serve and move to the net
- Serving to the glass, the T and the body
- Where the server's partner stands
- Returning low at the server's feet
- The lob return
- Where the receiver's partner stands
- Attacking through the middle
- Smashing the por tres
- The víbora to the side glass
- The drop shot against deep defenders
- Playing against a left-hander
- Defending the smash
- Defending the por tres
- Defending against the bandeja
- The defensive lob to reset the point
- Letting the ball come off the back glass