Keys to Winning Doubles Net Play

• Be active at the net.

• Harass the service return.

• Don’t look back.

• Stay out of your partner’s way and in your opponents’ way.

• While the ball is in your court, watch the opposing up-player and step back toward your alley.  If your partner’s shot is getting past the opposing up-play, advance.  If no, back off to defend the Hole. (The hole is the diagonal space between the players when they are in the one up and one back position).

• While the ball is in the opposition’s court, step forward to the center line, drifting the same direction as the opposing back-player chases the ball.

• Hit to the Hole.

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