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“You're a net player who can't yet answer a lob.”
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The verdict, every part of the player's game the footage showed with a note on each, his three fixes, and what to film next time.
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The coach's verdict
“You're a net player who can't yet answer a lob. You get to the net better than most at your level, and the first good lob takes it straight back, because the only overhead you own is a smash. Every fix below is about keeping the net you've already won.”
Diego Suárez
on Nico Álvarez, twenty minutes of a club match
Level estimate
From his report card
2 of 33
Remate (smash)Overheads
5“The smash isn't the problem. Which lobs you smash is.”
Return decisionReturn
Developing“Well hit, wrong shot.”
What the footage showed
Most of his shots were fine. Where he stood and what he chose were losing the points.
This is his report card at a glance. Look where his shots sit, then where his decisions sit. It is the thing you cannot see from inside the point, and a coach watching from behind the glass can.
From the report card · Complete Game Breakdown, EUR 89
Shots, scored 1 to 10
How he hits it
11 of 15
sound or better
- First serve7
- Return off the side glass7
- Forehand volley7
- First volley on the way in7
- Forehand return6
- Forehand from the back6
- Second serve5
- Backhand volley5
- Remate (smash)5
- Side wall5
- Globo (lob)5
- Backhand return4
- Backhand from the back4
- Double wall4
- 1Bandeja3
- Víbora
Show every row
- First serve7
- Return off the side glass7
- Forehand volley7
- First volley on the way in7
- Forehand return6
- Forehand from the back6
- Second serve5
- Backhand volley5
- Remate (smash)5
- Side wall5
- Globo (lob)5
- Backhand return4
- Backhand from the back4
- Double wall4
- 1Bandeja3
- Víbora
Decisions and positioning, in three bands
Where he stands, what he chooses
1 of 13
a strength
- Composure
- Return decision
- Volley decision
- Preparation
- Recovery and ready position
- Movement to the ball
- Defensive position
- Coming to the net
- Covering as a pair
- Building the point
- 2Net position
- 3Decisions from the back
- Overhead decision
Show every row
- Composure
- Return decision
- Volley decision
- Preparation
- Recovery and ready position
- Movement to the ball
- Defensive position
- Coming to the net
- Covering as a pair
- Building the point
- 2Net position
- 3Decisions from the back
- Overhead decision
2.5 years in, he volleys better than most at his level. More hours hitting the shots he already has would not fix this. He needs one shot he does not have yet, and to know when to play it and where to stand.
Every row has a sentence
Not a score from software. What a coach looks for.
Each part of the game the footage shows comes back with the coach's own note: what happened, how often, and what it cost. Four of his.
From the report card · Complete Game Breakdown
Return decision
Return
DevelopingRight most of the time: a lob when the server was coming in, a low ball when they hung back. The misses were the same one three times: a hard, flat drive at a server who had already stopped at the service line, chest high, the easiest volley they got all day. All three lost. Well hit, wrong shot.
DevelopingBackhand return
Return
Misses: late contact · short
4The serve to the T. The racket isn't back when the ball bounces, so you're pushing at it with the wrist and it sits up mid-court for the server to volley. Both opponents were serving there by the end of the match; they'd noticed.
4Remate (smash)
Overheads
Misses: long · wrong shot for the moment
5When the lob is short and you're under it the smash is clean: flat at the feet, and one out over the back glass in the second game that the opponents didn't even chase. The misses were all the same ball: a deep lob smashed from behind your shoulder, into their back glass on the full. The smash isn't the problem. Which lobs you smash is.
5Víbora
Overheads
No score: the absence is the finding
Not in your game yetNot in your game yet, and it isn't your next shot. Four or five lobs came at a height where a stronger player cuts a víbora into the side glass; you smashed every one of them flat. The víbora is a bandeja with more spin and more intent, so it's built on a bandeja you don't have yet. Bandeja first; this comes after.
Not in your game yet
The other 29 parts of his game are in the example, from first serve to composure.
Send me all of it →Then, what to fix first
Three fixes, in order. One sentence to take on court.
Ranked, each with the reason, a cue short enough to say to yourself mid-point, and a drill for it. Every review has this, at EUR 39 and EUR 89.
- 1
Build a bandeja, so a lob doesn't end the point
On court“Turn before you run.”
Why this is first
The bandeja, the sliced overhead you hit around head height, out to the side, to keep the net rather than win the point, is the shot you're missing. Without it every lob over you is a coin toss: a flat smash from behind your head that goes long, or a retreat that hands over the net. In this match that was how most of the points you'd built well ended.
DrillBandeja Control Ladder4 sets of 6 overheads
- 2
After the first volley, stop two big steps off the net, not on it
On court“Two steps off, not on it.”
Why this is second
You volley from a racket's length off the net and stay there, so any decent lob is behind you before you've moved. Stopping two big steps off costs you almost nothing on the volley and turns a lot of those lobs into overheads you can take in front of you, which is the only place your overhead works today. This is the cheap fix: it starts paying before the bandeja does.
DrillHit and Recover to the Cone4 sets of 10 balls
- 3
From the back, lob first and drive only what sits up
On court“Lob deep. Go if they turn.”
Why this is third
When the other pair has the net you try to hit through them from behind your service line. At this level that's a comfortable volley for them, not a winner for you, and it keeps you pinned at the back, where you're ordinary. The lob is what pushes them off the net and lets you come in behind it, and at the net is where you play your best padel. Save the drive for the short ball that sits up.
DrillPatience Under the Bandeja3 sets of 8 points
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What to fix first, from a coach who watched it all.
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- The coach's verdict on your game
- Three fixes, ranked, with a cue and a drill each
- What is already working
- Your focus card, and what to film next time
Complete Game Breakdown
EUR 89VAT included
Everything in the Video Review, and the report card above.
- Everything in the Video Review, your match talked through included
- The report card: 33 parts of your game, each with your coach's note
- Shots scored 1 to 10, decisions in three bands
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