How to Return the Serve After the Glass!

[@nakatulo]

Thank you for all your videos. It is really hard to find such good content here in youtube in english. I'm Brazilian, but for me english is easyer than spanish to understand. Your videos are encouraging me in the sport which is new to me. Thank you for doing that.

[@stephenjones7822]

Excellent tuition. All the lessons I have seen are clear, concise and well presented. Please keep producing more. Thank you.

[@ThePadelSchool]

Thank you, I will try my best!

[@1993eML]

Great, and I mean great content Sanny! All this tips n trix are helping ALOT! Hands down and keep updating :) best regards from Sweden

[@ThePadelSchool]

Thanks for the support! I will try me best :)

[@johnshannon1649]

A very intuitive and precise video Sandy. I'm just starting to play Padel after decades of playing tennis. I found your tips most helpful.

[@ThePadelSchool]

so glad our videos found you John and that you're enjoying the game! keep us in the loop 💪

[@ewanabc3297]

I needed this. my mate duked me with them sliced wall serves in my first time playing and I twisted my knee misreading the bounce.

[@ThePadelSchool]

Glad it helped!

[@ludvigborsos5463]

OUF! Shoutout till Västerås Padel Arena. MÄKTIGT!

[@Wiesjex01]

My favourite video so far👏very detailed and well explained.

[@ThePadelSchool]

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

[@florianwicki5920]

Cheers Sandy! Keep up the good work!

[@ThePadelSchool]

Florian Wicki thanks! Will do my best 🙏

[@Nealonify]

Very good video as always! This is a tricky situation and one I feel is one of the largest obstacles for new/intermediate players since it’s easier to learn to hit this kind of serve than to return it. So the game becomes imbalanced of you don’t master this with your group. Great tips!

[@ThePadelSchool]

August Ejnarsson exactly! It’s much easier to serve there than it is to return it!

[@alezar454]

great video!!! best regards from argentina!!!

[@ThePadelSchool]

Gracias!!

[@Buurmanni]

Thanks Sandy! Very nice food for thought right here. I play the B-side and right now I can almost always return the serve and have accepted that if the serve is very good, it is enough to just get the ball back into play. Even if the opponent gets an easy volley opportunity, sometimes they'll miss it and in padel the point is rarely over even when the opponent gets an easier ball. My standard return is a flat, medium paced shot back towards the server; it has the biggest margin for error and rarely gives the opponent an easy ball to end the point. On easier serves I vary this with a blistering two-handed backhand aimed right at the returner. Tomorrow is my first official match at my local club!

[@ThePadelSchool]

You are absolutely right...it is more important to make them play, because even easy balls are not always possible to put away. The double hander is a great return if you can hit it well! If you're feeling confident you can also use the lob on the return too! Good luck in your first match!!

[@Buurmanni]

@@ThePadelSchool thanks! I tend to sometimes lob the easier serves but on difficult ones I find my lobs are too weak. Still loads of work to be done on racquet skills 🎾

[@thairk]

Very clear and structured explanation, thank you very much!

[@ThePadelSchool]

Happy to help!!

[@stoffellama]

Thanks for the great video! These tips are however almost exclusively for returning a serve with the forehand. Would be useful to also receive some extra tips for returning on the backhand side, which is where the most errors are made. The tip where you advise to ‘drop’ the racket head for example is a lot harder for the wrist on the backhand side.

[@ThePadelSchool]

Yes, I should've moved between the sides, the only tip that doesn't apply would be the racket head drop, because like you say that is difficult to do on the backhand side...

[@chrispartridge2530]

Great tips as usual, will try it ou in the morning, Thanks

[@ThePadelSchool]

Chris Partridge good luck! Let me know how it goes!

[@chrispartridge2530]

@@ThePadelSchool Well I did try and was successful a couple of times, I'm a lefty and I had more success on my forehand to be honest It's a work in progress.........

[@jaimecozar8812]

Great video Sandy. I have some problems with this kind of shots so will try to follow your tips. Thank you!!

[@ThePadelSchool]

Jaime Cózar you are not alone!! This is one of the hardest bits to learn 👍

[@massagesneekcristina]

Thanks Sanny, lovly place. And good explain. Thanks again

[@ThePadelSchool]

My pleasure!

[@kristermagnusson6605]

Thanks again Sandy! This is what I struggle the most with. Im a backhand player....

[@ThePadelSchool]

This is always one of the toughest areas...backhand side is the same minus the bonus tip of dropping the racket head.

[@massagesneekcristina]

I have been in Dubai 3 times. For tennis 2 times was wonderful to see the best players so close. Nice atmosfeer and peaple in Dubai are very frendly and lovly. If you organise for shure i came again to Dubai

[@ThePadelSchool]

Couldn't agree more! I will definitely keep you in mind! :)

[@wimbouwen8547]

Thx again, this evening we play a match and i will focus on the return. Try to bring every return in to play :)

[@ThePadelSchool]

wim bouwen that’s a great objective to give yourself!! 👍

[@fahada1921]

Where in gulf is this? Looks magnificent

[@danielfaulstich5081]

great video! could you do one more for the backhand - return ?

[@ThePadelSchool]

Yes, I can make a video for the backhand side. The tips apply to both sides, only the bonus tip of dropping the racket head is difficult to do on the backhand side. But I can make more content for it coming up! :)

[@ThaHawaiiaN]

Great video!

[@ThePadelSchool]

glad you enjoyed!

[@mnour9]

Good tips mate. Well done!

[@ThePadelSchool]

Nour Abd elmoneim thank you 🙏

[@joacimkindstrom2478]

Sandy great as always! Vamos padel

[@ThePadelSchool]

Thank Joacim! Vamos Padel!!

[@massagesneekcristina]

Padel is so addicted. I play only 1 year. But I want to learn more. I have difficulty with the return with the glas. I will keep in minde. Thanks

[@ThePadelSchool]

Most people find that tricky! Lots of practice and a few simple tips and hopefully it will improve!

[@jangranaas4410]

This was a very good vid Sandy. Can you please give some advice on how to return the ball when you receive a drop ball in the corner without the ball bouncing against the glass? I very often come into this position during a match and sometimes it's very difficult to decide what to do.

[@ThePadelSchool]

Jan Granaas thank! Is this from a serve? Or just a normal shot? One of the first things players need to learn is whether the trajectory and speed combined with the depth of the bounce should be taken before or after the glass. You also need to decide what is the best height to take the ball! What type of shot are you referring to?

[@jangranaas4410]

The Padel School This is during the play when the opponent is doing a high lob into your corner and the ball don’t bounce out from the back glass. It is difficult to get the racket behind the ball and it is difficult to hit the ball by using the back glass.

[@samueltotays202]

Thank you! Where´s this video been taken?

[@ThePadelSchool]

Samuel Totays at a private court in Dubai 👍

[@andresoares2275]

Another great one!

[@ThePadelSchool]

Thank you Andre! :)

[@krheide1]

Hi Sandy. At 1:43 in this video you explain that if the ball is going to bounce off the back part of the side glass, you say that it's easier to take the ball before the glass. Then you show a clip where the player does that and gets jammed up against the glass for a bad return. Wouldn't it be best for this player to allow the ball space for hitting double glass before returning the ball, or does he really have time to make a proper return before the glass? Best regards

[@ThePadelSchool]

Hey, yes, I was using that as an example of stepping laterally towards and taking it just as its about to contact. Normally you would want to step diagonally and hit before. But yes, in this case or if the person hits a fast, high bouncing serve you could allow it off both glasses. The higher the level the less you see the double glass with the return (as you do not see those serves)...hope that helps :)

[@krheide1]

@@ThePadelSchool Great answer - thanks. Makes perfect sense:)

[@superfloren10]

What about a lob on the return? Great vídeos 😎

[@ThePadelSchool]

I would only recommend that if you are confident you can hit it well...

[@massagesneekcristina]

Hoi Sandy, where is this beautiful place⁉️. Maybe you can organize padel trips one week on this location. I am shure a lot a padel peaples like to take a traning with a combi for holliday. I leve in Holland and in the past a had a tennis triep. But now I am addicted to padel and I wish to have padel trips.

[@ThePadelSchool]

This is a lovely private court here in Dubai. I definitely like the idea of doing some padel trips! There are lots of great locations for it! (In Europe and in Dubai) Hopefully we can organize it soon!

[@SeanNeale]

Any videos on the opposite side where you’ve got to use your backhand, or is it simply a case of the same advice but just be better at back hand haha

[@ThePadelSchool]

same principles apply yes!

[@lpaduacr]

one comment or potential video could be ball anticipation, I find myself going too forward on an opponents smash to try to get it off the wall towards the front of the court, but then the opponent cuts it and I am out of position. are they any cues that could help position myself better. when an opponents is going to hit overhead where should I be

[@ThePadelSchool]

This is all about the visual cues and trying to judge the type of smash they will hit by looking at their body position. At higher levels players can disguise their shots really well, but often there are signs of what the player will hit.

[@alexgoico]

This is exactly what I need to work on

[@ThePadelSchool]

Good luck!!! :)

[@SuperCapone123]

Testing this today.relly work

[@ThePadelSchool]

good to hear!

[@lpaduacr]

Great videos BTW

[@ThePadelSchool]

Glad you like them!

[@machess2075]

What of it bounce on the black glass as well, or do you wanna take it before?

[@ThePadelSchool]

If it bounces so high and fast that it rebounds off the back glass then you can take it after. If it is a good serve it is unlikely to bounce off the back glass.

[@machess2075]

The Padel School oh ok thx

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