Strategy Zone: The Swinging Volley

Did we go crazy introducing the swinging volley in the 1980's? At the Academy, we started training players to hit Swinging Volleys in the late 1980's. People thought we were crazy! Taking a big swing was considered the worst mistake you could possibly make at the net. "It's impossible to control the ball when you swing at the net." We heard that over and over from the "experts" in tennis. But you know what? It turned out we weren't crazy afterall. It turned out we were right. It turned out the shot wasn't impossible. It turned out that shott was vital. Monica Seles and a few other players proved that, and proved the skeptics wrong. Over the years we have taught hundreds and hundreds of players to hit swinging volleys and hit them well. And now the conventional wisdom is the complete opposite. The swinging volley is now considered a standard shot that every player in pro and in junior tennis must develop. So let's see how to do that! Swinging Volley Finish In this series of articles, we've outlined our concept of how to build points through a progression we call "Control, Hurt, Finish." (Click Here.) In the previous...