Joe: How to beat a lobber in tennis.
A lobber in tennis is someone who, every time you come to the net, they
consistently try to hit it over your head with a lob or when you're at
the baseline, you'll hit a hard shot and the only way they can defend
against that hard shot is to send up a lob.
How do you beat that?
If you're at the baseline, and you hit a hard shot and they just lob it back
hoping to restart the point, you can come in and take the ball out
of the air with what I call a swinging volley.
Don't let that lob bounce because you're just going
to have to restart the point back up and restart that point.
Come in, as the ball is dropping, catch it at about
eye level to chest level and take a swinging volley out of the air and
put it away.
The other thing is if you come up on an approach shot, a lobber
will always choose to lob over your head.
So, know thy opponent.
Don't come in too far.
Stay somewhat near the service line expecting the lob, which you'll
probably get, and execute an overhead smash.
Put the ball away.
The key to beating a lobber is to not let that
lob take effect.
Take it out of the air from the baseline.
You're going to come up to the net and hit an overhead smash.
What do you think Kurt?
Kurt: I like it and sometimes you play somebody who's going to just try
even when you're on the baseline to lob it back.
Lob it back.
With that player, every once in a while, you will back
up a little bit and you have to feel a little proficient at sending
a good lob.
This is the one time, you can probably hit a good lob, let's
say, to his back end, maybe even with a little top spin and that height
gives you time to come in and like Joe said, don't come too close to
the net.
Stop around the service line.
Chances are, a lob this coming.
He's not going to beat you with a lob if you're only on the service
line when he hits it.
Joe: That's right and I have gone to a lot of junior tournaments and at
the young age, the lob is a very effective shot because the players
don't have enough power to come in and take it out of the air often
because they're young and the ball tends to bounce over their heads a
lot.
I am teaching my younger students as they get older, maybe 13 or
14, to try to take that swinging volley and try to work on their
overhead smash.
How to beat a lobber -take it out of the air, get up to
the service line and hit some overhead smashes.
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