How To Defend Against “Serve & Volley” (Tennis Singles Return of Serve Strategy)

On page 33 of The Singles Playbook from Fuzzyla balls,

you'll learn how to return serve against a serve and volleyer.

Your main focus

when the server serves to you,

and they're coming forward is you want them to volley from below net level.

If you can get them to make contact with the volley at or below net level,

it'll force them to have to volley up.

If you give them a high ball,

that's when you get in trouble.

Now,

what I typically see

players trying

is if their opponent is serving

and coming forward,

they try to avoid them.

They think pass down the line,

pass crosscourt,

or worse, even lob up over their head.

Don't do that.

Your main focus,

just hit it right to them,

and the goal is to try to get the ball if you can to land around the service line

because that's where your opponent's gonna be when they come forward.

See,

when you serve in volley,

you serve,

and I've made so many videos on this topic.

It's all choreographed.

The footwork is choreographed.

You serve,

you take three steps,

and then you split step.

This is what you see the pros do.

They serve,

they go 1-2-3,

and then they split step.

They split step behind the service line.

So, by the time you hit the ball,

they come forward,

they're around the service line when they're making their first volley.

What does that mean?

If you can get the ball to land around the service line or, you know,

below net level,

you're giving them a low ball that forces them to volley up.

Your success

against a serve and volleyer depends on the height of the first volley

you give to the opponent.

Let's check out Coco Goff serving and volley right now against

Bozkova.

Coco is serving.

She's gonna serve.

She's gonna take three steps,

1-2-3,

and then split step.

I'm gonna show you two points,

by the way.

The first one,

Coco comes in and she has a high ball and she easily puts it away.

On the second point,

Marie Boskova gives the ball lower to Coco.

Coco has to volley up and that's when Marie is able to hit the passing shot.

Nice play.

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return

serve,

rally,

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If you want to try serving and volleying,

serve,

take 1-2-3 steps and then split step,

and that'll be around the time your opponent hits the ball.

And then your goal hopefully is that you can get a high enough ball.

So, give your opponent a tough serve to return. That way

it's tough for them to keep the ball low on you.

But if you're dealing

someone coming in and attacking you,

whether it's doubles or singles,

your main goal isn't to avoid them.

Your main goal is just to get the ball right on them and low,

force them to have to hit the ball up because then it's going

to be so much easier to pass them on the second shot.

You use this return strategy against serving volleyers,

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.