hey guys,
I'm a guy, and I play mixed doubles a lot, and I personally I like it a lot better than Singles or Doubles.. I usually do alright, because I'm a very much attack-based player, and my smashes have pretty good angle and decent power (so they are hard to kill)
Now, I run into a few problems... I was wondering if anyone experienced the same thing, and might have some input
1. my partner and I defend sides sometimes... and the strategy is if I
lift, I try to lift straight, so that my partner is standing cross-court from any smashes that might come her way. It's fine until they hit a clear to my partner, who can clear back decently, but that puts her in the back, and I end up standing in the middle clueless with what to do.
2. another problem is that my partner sometimes complains that she isn't doing a lot of running up at the front in mixed doubles, which is a bit boring.. is there anything I can do or we can practice so that she can return more drives and low shots when she is at the front?
3. Where (which side) should my partner be standing when I am serving?
4. Where on the court should I stand when i'm serving? I'm afraid I might be standing a bit too far back, but I'm not sure...
5. Sometimes I do a bad serve or a bad dropshot or a bad drive, and the opponent kills it at my partner and hits her :crying:, and obviously I want it to be fun for both me and my partner.. so is there any tips or guidelines that i can follow?
6. Once in a while, I get into trouble where I smash down the side line, and the opponent does a fast crosscourt drive to the back court, and I die. Is there anything I can do to prepare better for that return?
right now, I smash everything on the forhand side down the line, or drive/drop it to the side (my consistency with that is decent enough)... and on the backhand, I do around the head crosscourt smash/drop shots, or I smash down the line, or do a straight backhand drive-drop. When I do lift, I lift high to the corner, and pray that the opponent smashes straight.
is there anything I might be missing? thanks for all replys
oh and btw, my friend's coach calls mixed doubles "obstacle singles" lol