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In this week's video,

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I'm gonna show you a drill that you can do

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to flip a defensive position into an attacking position in singles.

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Coach Alen from Targets,

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I'm here,

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and thanks for joining us for this week's video.

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The drill that we're gonna do today

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is called lob and follow.

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So how it's gonna work,

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Carwin is gonna start right by the net

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with this racket touching the net tape,

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and I'm gonna start back at the baseline.

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I'm gonna play a lob feet to start the point.

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Carwin's gonna go back and retrieve the lob,

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and I'm gonna follow that feet to the net.

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So, it should look a little bit like this.

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Right.

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The aim of this drill

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is to flip defense into attack.

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So at the start of the point,

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you're in a very defensive position.

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Your opponent's at the net;

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you're back at the baseline.

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By playing a good lob that goes over your opponent's head

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and transitioning into the net,

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you've now got yourself into a dominant attacking net position.

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We almost certainly know that that lob retrieval

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of our opponents is gonna be quite weak.

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It's gonna be quite floaty,

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unless they pull off the greatest Hollywood shot in history.

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But if they don't,

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then we're gonna almost certainly get an easy put away volley,

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which we can kill.

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Thank you so much for watching this week's video.

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Big thanks to Coach Carwin,

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who came along today to help out with

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the hitting and the demonstrations in the video.

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Today's drill was all about the attacking game and flipping defense into attack,

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but if you're looking to take charge with your baseline game in singles,

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then go ahead and buy this book cos there's loads of great ideas in here

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on how you can develop your tennis game.

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So, thanks again, and I'll see you next time.