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Pro Pickleball Masterclass: Win More Women's & Mixed Doubles

You were taught to get to the kitchen line and never give it back. Watch the top women's and mixed pros and you will see them standing a step or two behind it on purpose.

The reason is what the ball is doing. Standing back lets it bounce up to its apex, and the higher the ball is when you hit it, the more you can do with it.

Space gives you angles too. The closer you stand to the net, the less room you have to shape a ball into a corner.

You do not stay back for the whole point though, and this is the part D calls the cheat code. She sorts dinks into ones and twos, and the label has nothing to do with the dink itself.

A one is neutral. A two is any dink that makes your opponent uncomfortable, and you read it off their body: feet moving, a stutter step, a reach into the kitchen and a pull back.

The moment you see that, jump up to the line, plant your feet and wait with the paddle out. An uncomfortable player is hitting off their back foot or reaching, which is where pop-ups come from.

Then you drop back to the midcourt and start again. Dinking from back there and staying back there is just handing them dinks and waiting for a mistake.

In mixed there is a second reason to hold that space. If your partner is the one being targeted, backing up lets you squeeze toward the middle and cut off everything but the last sliver of court, and it means you are not in their way when the pop-up finally comes.

Back up rather than sliding sideways off the court. Sliding leaves the line uncovered and puts your partner on the whole court alone.

The same read tells you when to give the line up in a firefight. If they start hitting down at you, or you feel yourself leaning backwards, take steps back and reset instead of swinging.

What a paragraph cannot show you is the tell itself. D calls out ones and twos live while she is dinking with BK, and the whole difference is one small shuffle of his feet.

Key points

Stand a step off the line so the ball bounces to its apex, which is where you can do the most with it.
A two dink is defined by your opponent's reaction, not by the spin you put on it.
Jump to the line the moment their feet move or they reach into the kitchen and pull back.
When your partner is being targeted, back up and squeeze toward the middle rather than sliding off the court.
If they start hitting down at you or you feel yourself leaning backwards, retreat and reset instead of swinging.

Watch the full tutorial here.