Don’t grip your racquet too hard or you’ll struggle to control it while you’re swinging it. If your grip isn’t firm enough, you’ll lose power in your swing.
The serving boxes are the two smaller squares that sit flush against the wall in the middle of the court.
Open movement generally takes longer to cover distance on the floor, but allows you to track the ball more accurately. Closed movement is faster, but will often lead to inaccurate strokes since you have to realign your hips to strike the ball after moving.
Extend your arm out towards the wall as you follow through, bending your back knee to a 90-degree angle as you swing.
Try to hit your drop shots as low on the back wall as possible. This will give your opponent less time to reach the ball as it begins to fall.
A lob shot is not necessarily a soft shot. You need to hit the ball fairly hard to send it to the opposite end of the court.
You can fake your opponent out by pretending to line up a regular straight drive and then changing the angle of your racquet at the last possible moment.
A volley is a general term for any hard shot that attacks your opponent’s control of the floor by forcing them to move.
Hitting the side wall first will also reduce the ball’s overall speed on the return, so try to do this when your opponent is playing towards the back of the court.
Face the same direction on each side of the court, even if it means that you’re swinging towards the wall on the opposite side.
