I recently helped two 3.0 ladies' teams prepare for USTA Nationals. The 1st team actually won Nationals in the 40+ division this past weekend.

We spent 30 minutes discussing strategy before playing doubles for a few hours. This episode previews the first 10 minutes of the strategy discussion with the 2nd team, who heads to Nationals next week.

• How doubles matches are won lost.
• The importance of understanding rally length.
• What to practice leading up to nationals.
• Members only: My favorite ways to force errors
• Members only: Team roles.
• Members only: The 3 things that give 3.0 to 4.0 players the most problems and how to fix them.
• Members only: How to win lob fests.
• Members only: Using the 2-back formation.

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Peter Freeman is one of my favorite tennis coaches to speak with because he has so much experience coaching club doubles players. Like me, Peter creates a ton of online content, including one of the largest online tennis conferences, Tennis Con. I've presented at Tennis Con for the past 3 years and cannot recommend it enough for club players.

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I spoke with Peter to preview Tennis Con 9, which is a little different this year. We also discussed some takeaways from our doubles camp earlier this summer, including the two types of serves at the club level, building a chip return, and fixing your overhead.

• How TennisCon started and what’s new this year
• Challenges, Easter eggs, leaderboard, and prizes (including a free ball machine)
• The importance of learning from many coaches, not one
• Continental vs pancake serves
• How high should your ball toss actually be?
• Executing the chip return
• Overhead rules to help you not miss
• What tennis can learn from pickleball culture

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I recently posted an Instagram video asking why club doubles players don't use I-Formation. It now has over 210,000 views and 100 comments, many of which are excuses.

In this episode, I break down the five most common excuses and share my rebuttal. I hope that this will convince some of you to start using serve formations more often to help you win matches.

Here are the excuses...

1. "Our serves aren't good enough."
2. "I'll get hit in the back of the head by my partner's serve."
3. "Club players are too slow."
4. "The net player would be too scared." OR "the net position isn't fun."
5. "The returner will rip down the line."
6. At the end, I share the only valid reason to never use I-Formation.

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