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Tip of the day
You know the banger. Every ball comes at you at full speed, and somehow you end up swinging at all of them.
Pro Michael Lloyd's fix costs you nothing: let more balls go. Hard hitters hit a lot of balls out, and players who swing at everything hand those points right back.
His rule of thumb from the baseline is simple. If a drive is anywhere near your shoulder height, don't touch it, and watch where it lands.
The threshold changes as you move up the court. At the kitchen line your opponents are closer, so the ball doesn't need to be as high to go out, and he starts paying attention to anything around chest level.
Treat the first few drives as information, not as points you have to win. If a ball just below your shoulders lands in at the baseline, you now know that height will most likely stay in, and you adjust from there.
That's why he lets more balls go early in a match, even when he isn't sure. Those early reads help him for the rest of the match.
You don't have to win every rally against a banger. Sometimes you just have to let them lose it.
The video shows real drives sailing past at shoulder and chest height from the baseline, the transition zone and the kitchen, so you can see what "too high" looks like at full pace.
Key points
Hard hitters hit a lot of balls out, so swinging at everything hands those points back.
From the baseline, a good rule of thumb is to let any drive near shoulder height go.
At the kitchen line, watch for anything around chest level, because the ball doesn't need to be as high to go out.
A drive just below your shoulders that lands in tells you that height will most likely stay in.
Let more balls go early in a match, even when you aren't sure, to gather information.
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