So, here's a play you can run that's gonna help you win a lot more singles matches.
Now,
first,
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All right,
I'm gonna let you watch two points.
They're very similar points,
and then we'll diagram them.
All right,
so this is a match between Krueger and Taylor Fritz,
and the idea is very simple.
It's called 2-1.
This is the concept of hitting two shots
to one side of the court
to open up
one shot
into the other side of the court.
And oftentimes,
you don't even need this
because
this right here
wins the point.
So,
let's look at this serve.
Now,
this serve is actually a body serve and it comes to Taylor's left side.
So, he moves out of the way to make this a backhand.
It's a strong serve.
It's deep in the box
and it gets on Taylor very quickly,
so he chooses a backhand.
He's just reacting to this ball.
Now,
when he does this,
notice where he ends up.
He ends up in
the doubles alley.
If your shot,
whether it's a serve or a ground stroke,
when your shot pulls your opponent
into the doubles alley,
they need to now quickly recover.
And when they're recovering quickly,
you can use that to your advantage.
If we look at Krueger,
he's hitting the ball right now.
Now,
look where Taylor is.
His brain is thinking,
you know what,
I've got to be prepared for this.
We can see that Krueger is inside the court.
So, taking the ball down the line and
just ripping this ball down the line would absolutely
make sense strategically.
So,
Taylor is moving across
to protect that shot.
But what Krueger does is he decides to actually hit the ball right
here
or
close to there.
So watch his shot.
Watch where this ball lands.
It lands near the service line and actually wrong foots Taylor,
who is moving back to the center.
So, that's the 2-1 strategy where you
hit two shots and on the serve,
obviously,
you're serving to this side because it's your
serve and that's the rules to serve cross-court.
But you can use your serve as the first of those two.
And then as your opponent is recovering,
you can hit again back behind them.
Now here,
Taylor
does the exact same thing
against Krueger.
So, Taylor,
instead of hitting the body serve
that moved,
you know,
Taylor out wide when Krueger was serving,
what Taylor does is he actually serves out wide
and that pulls Krueger over.
So, not only is Krueger outside the singles line,
he's outside the doubles line too.
So, now he has to recover quickly.
If he doesn't,
then Taylor can just hit it down the line for a winner.
So, Krueger is coming back,
and sometimes in this situation,
your opponent just has to guess and just is sprinting to this other side.
So, Taylor decides to spin it and actually purposely hits short,
which actually helps create a better angle,
and he spins the ball and watch sorry,
watch Taylor here.
I'm sorry,
watch Krueger,
he's running and he's got to come back.
You know,
he's gotta have his body facing this direction
as Taylor is hitting.
He really cannot square up his body
and face forward because he's got to get over fast enough.
And that's because Taylor hit the ball so wide
that Krueger had to run fast to get back into the court.
And that's when Taylor's using that speed
that Krueger is using to get into the middle of the court against him
in order to hit behind him.
All right,
let's watch these two points again.
Now
the exact 2-1 strategy, we just saw the pros using is included
in the singles playbook from Fuzzy Yellow balls.
It's over 50 pages play after play on how to beat your toughest opponents,
and on page 10,
there it is,
the 2-1.
What's really cool with every play in this book,
there's a QR code.
Hold up your tablet or your phone up over
the QR code up pops a video automatically of Will Hamilton from
Fuzzy Yellow Balls teaching you exactly how to use that play.
You can grab the link for the singles playbook in the description.
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All right,
we had,
let's take Taylor Fritz first.
He served out wide that pulled Kruger off the court.
Now in the 2-1,
you can do this off of a serve as part of, you know, the set up for this,
or you can just do it with a ground stroke,
but
you hit the ball so that it pulls your opponent off the court.
So, that's
the first shot of the two.
Then when they recover,
they have to be
coming back pretty fast because they're afraid you're
gonna hit it into the open court,
which is actually called 1-1,
right?
So, you hit the first shot out wide,
now you can,
if they hit short,
you can hit behind them
where you know the opponent has to come to the center,
so you can actually hit behind them.
Now
if they get that ball back and now they're scrambling,
they're
back way off the court again,
completely off balance.
That's what sets up the ability
to hit into the open court.
So, that's the two shots to one corner,
one shot in the other corner.
With Krueger and Fritz,
they actually won the point with just the 2,
the 2 shots into the same corner.
And you're gonna find that with your opponents that
you don't even have to hit that third shot
into the open court,
that just pulling your opponent off the court
and every once in a while as they're recovering,
you hit behind them,
you're gonna win the point outright.
Then guess what happens?
We try to layer onto this.
They start thinking,
oh,
I got pulled over.
I'm gonna hang out here a little bit because they're gonna try to
hit behind me and then you start noticing that they're hanging out,
hitting into the open court,
which is the 1-1,
and then they feel like,
"Oh my gosh,
no matter what I do,
I'm gonna lose to this person."
That's good for you.
Start working on the 2-1 single strategy,
and there's no doubt.
You're gonna gain confidence,
win more matches,
and play much better tennis.
This is Ryan Reidy from 2MinuteTennis.net.
You got this.