When NOT to Serve Up the Middle in Doubles

Okay okay, we have all heard “middle solves the riddle”, or something like that….it seems to be the gospel when it comes to doubles.   Well, bucko, not so fast!!  There’s at least one situation where you do NOT want to serve to the middle (or “T”), and that’s when you are playing in the Aussie or I formation.  Now, I would mostly say that this is true to the Ad side, but really, the same principle holds true for the deuce side, the difference being that on the deuce side, you have to contend with a right-handers return of serve which would be to another right-handers backhand.  Typically, given the weaker backhand of most players, that’s not a good match up.

Aha, but on the ad side, the tables are reversed.  You are serving to the returners backhand, and if he goes down the line, it’s to your forehand, which you can then crush or do whatever you want…..

Here’s a link showing what I’m talking about:    [embedplusvideo height=”283″ width=”450″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1JmKsiD” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/B_U9_0gLLDY?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=B_U9_0gLLDY&width=450&height=283&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=1&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep7296″ /]

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