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So, here's a play you can run that's gonna help you win a lot more singles matches.

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Now,

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first,

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this video is courtesy of 12kgp-Tennis on YouTube.

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Make sure you subscribe to their awesome channel.

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I've put their link in the description below.

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All right,

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I'm gonna let you watch two points.

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They're very similar points,

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and then we'll diagram them.

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All right,

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so this is a match between Krueger and Taylor Fritz,

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and the idea is very simple.

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It's called 2-1.

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This is the concept of hitting two shots

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to one side of the court

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to open up

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one shot

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into the other side of the court.

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And oftentimes,

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you don't even need this

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because

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this right here

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wins the point.

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So,

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let's look at this serve.

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Now,

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this serve is actually a body serve and it comes to Taylor's left side.

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So, he moves out of the way to make this a backhand.

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It's a strong serve.

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It's deep in the box

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and it gets on Taylor very quickly,

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so he chooses a backhand.

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He's just reacting to this ball.

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Now,

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when he does this,

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notice where he ends up.

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He ends up in

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the doubles alley.

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If your shot,

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whether it's a serve or a ground stroke,

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when your shot pulls your opponent

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into the doubles alley,

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they need to now quickly recover.

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And when they're recovering quickly,

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you can use that to your advantage.

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If we look at Krueger,

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he's hitting the ball right now.

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Now,

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look where Taylor is.

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His brain is thinking,

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you know what,

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I've got to be prepared for this.

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We can see that Krueger is inside the court.

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So, taking the ball down the line and

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just ripping this ball down the line would absolutely

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make sense strategically.

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So,

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Taylor is moving across

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to protect that shot.

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But what Krueger does is he decides to actually hit the ball right 

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here

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or

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close to there.

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So watch his shot.

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Watch where this ball lands.

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It lands near the service line and actually wrong foots Taylor,

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who is moving back to the center.

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So, that's the 2-1 strategy where you

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hit two shots and on the serve,

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obviously,

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you're serving to this side because it's your

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serve and that's the rules to serve cross-court.

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But you can use your serve as the first of those two.

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And then as your opponent is recovering,

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you can hit again back behind them.

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Now here,

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Taylor

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does the exact same thing

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against Krueger.

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So, Taylor,

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instead of hitting the body serve

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that moved,

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you know,

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Taylor out wide when Krueger was serving,

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what Taylor does is he actually serves out wide

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and that pulls Krueger over.

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So, not only is Krueger outside the singles line,

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he's outside the doubles line too.

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So, now he has to recover quickly.

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If he doesn't,

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then Taylor can just hit it down the line for a winner.

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So, Krueger is coming back,

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and sometimes in this situation,

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your opponent just has to guess and just is sprinting to this other side.

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So, Taylor decides to spin it and actually purposely hits short,

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which actually helps create a better angle,

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and he spins the ball and watch sorry,

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watch Taylor here.

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I'm sorry,

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watch Krueger,

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he's running and he's got to come back.

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You know,

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he's gotta have his body facing this direction

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as Taylor is hitting.

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He really cannot square up his body

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and face forward because he's got to get over fast enough.

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And that's because Taylor hit the ball so wide

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that Krueger had to run fast to get back into the court.

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And that's when Taylor's using that speed

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that Krueger is using to get into the middle of the court against him

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in order to hit behind him.

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All right,

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let's watch these two points again.

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Now 

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the exact 2-1 strategy, we just saw the pros using is included

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in the singles playbook from Fuzzy Yellow balls.

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It's over 50 pages play after play on how to beat your toughest opponents,

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and on page 10,

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there it is,

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the 2-1.

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What's really cool with every play in this book,

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there's a QR code.

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Hold up your tablet or your phone up over

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the QR code up pops a video automatically of Will Hamilton from

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Fuzzy Yellow Balls teaching you exactly how to use that play.

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You can grab the link for the singles playbook in the description.

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It's also pinned in the first comment.

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And if you're looking for new people in your local area to find,

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maybe you have a group of friends and people you play tennis with,

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but you want a kind of a better challenge.

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You want stronger players in your local

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area.

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You want to find those people,

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then use my link for Play Your Court,

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and it's playyourcourt.com/2minutetennis.

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You'll find people to play against,

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practice with,

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and even find coaches who are gonna help you up your game.

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All you gotta do is go in the description and in the first comment,

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and you'll find the links both for Play Your Court and for the singles playbook.

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All right,

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we had,

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let's take Taylor Fritz first.

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He served out wide that pulled Kruger off the court.

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Now in the 2-1,

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you can do this off of a serve as part of, you know, the set up for this,

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or you can just do it with a ground stroke,

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but

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you hit the ball so that it pulls your opponent off the court.

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So, that's

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the first shot of the two.

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Then when they recover,

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they have to be

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coming back pretty fast because they're afraid you're

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gonna hit it into the open court,

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which is actually called 1-1,

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right?

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So, you hit the first shot out wide,

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now you can,

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if they hit short,

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you can hit behind them

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where you know the opponent has to come to the center,

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so you can actually hit behind them.

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Now

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if they get that ball back and now they're scrambling,

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they're

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back way off the court again,

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completely off balance.

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That's what sets up the ability

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to hit into the open court.

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So, that's the two shots to one corner,

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one shot in the other corner.

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With Krueger and Fritz,

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they actually won the point with just the 2,

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the 2 shots into the same corner.

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And you're gonna find that with your opponents that

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you don't even have to hit that third shot

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into the open court,

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that just pulling your opponent off the court

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and every once in a while as they're recovering,

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you hit behind them,

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you're gonna win the point outright.

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Then guess what happens?

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We try to layer onto this.

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They start thinking,

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oh,

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I got pulled over.

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I'm gonna hang out here a little bit because they're gonna try to

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hit behind me and then you start noticing that they're hanging out,

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hitting into the open court,

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which is the 1-1,

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and then they feel like,

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"Oh my gosh,

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no matter what I do,

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I'm gonna lose to this person."

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That's good for you.

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Start working on the 2-1 single strategy,

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and there's no doubt.

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You're gonna gain confidence,

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win more matches,

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and play much better tennis.

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This is Ryan Reidy from 2MinuteTennis.net.

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You got this.