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Tip of the week: How to Play Doubles with a Much Stronger Player

(By Larry Hodges) Tip of the week: How to Play Doubles with a Much Stronger Player What are the best tactics when playing doubles with a much stronger player? This often happens in rating doubles. Many believe that a more balanced team has an advantage over a more lopsided team, but that’s mostly true only […]

Tip of the week: Become Your Own Feedback

(By Larry Hodges) Tip of the week: Become Your Own Feedback You should make it a habit to be aware of how you win and lose points. If you do this, it will become second nature, and you’ll have immediate feedback when you play on what you need to do to improve, both tactically (what […]

How to Play the Bomber: The Player Who Tries to Blast Every Shot

(By Larry Hodges) How to Play the Bomber: The Player Who Tries to Blast Every Shot Have you ever had one of those matches where your opponent clobbered every ball past you, either looping or smashing? Where you spent more time chasing balls than actually hitting? Where you got a bad back just from bending […]

Tip of the week: Top Sixteen Reasons Players Don’t Improve

(By Larry Hodges) Tip of the week: Top Sixteen Reasons Players Don’t Improve I really tried narrowing this down, but this could just as easily have been a Top 50 list. As with past lists, these are not necessarily in order of importance. Bad technique. Deep down they don’t believe they can play at a […]

Tip of the week: Top Ten Tactical Receiving Mistakes

(By Larry Hodges) Top Ten Tactical Receiving Mistakes 1. Too predictable. Vary your receive! Most of the below are variations on this. 2. Giving the server what he wants. 3. Too aggressive. If you attack every serve it becomes predictable. 4. Too passive. If you never attack the serve, then the server knows he can […]

Tip of the week: Assume You Have to Move

(By Larry Hodges) Tip of the week: Assume You Have to Move Many players go through this series of events as the opponent is hitting the ball toward them: Opponent begins forward swing. I wait to see where the ball is going. Opponent hits ball. The ball is coming toward me. Do I have to […]

Tip of the week: Always Think of a Loop as a Set-up Shot

(By Larry Hodges) Tip of the week: Always Think of a Loop as a Set-up Shot Many players, when they get a chance to loop hard, think of it as a put-away shot. And often it is. However, this can cause problems since sometimes they do come back, especially when you face stronger players. There’s […]

Make Adjusting a Habit by Playing Different Players

(By Larry Hodges) Make Adjusting a Habit by Playing Different Players Most players understand that you need to play many different styles to learn how to play against them. Otherwise, when you face them in a match, you will struggle with them. And so smart players make sure to play against a variety of styles, […]

$2700 Butterfly MDTTC August Open

(By Larry Hodges-Tournament Director) $2700 Butterfly MDTTC August Open The MDTTC August Open was the day the choppers, juniors, and women & girls roared. There were choppers in the final and quarterfinals of the Open, and they won Under 2200 and Under 1500. There were juniors in the final of five of the six rating […]

Tip of the week: Covering the Wide Angles

(By Larry Hodges) Tip of the week: Covering the Wide Angles Most players have trouble when an opponent attacks at a wide angle, whether it’s to the forehand or backhand. Here are five principles to help you cover them. Position yourself from the previous shot. That means if you put the ball to, say, the […]

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