The Volley

Doug King

Doug King is going to be inducted into the 2025 USTA Northern California Hall of Fame on September 17, 2025. Doug played number one singles for UC Berkeley and has had an illustrious teaching career, being featured in multiple publications. Known by many Tennisplayer subscribers for his work on TennisOne, Doug is widely regarded as one of the modern game's most innovative and eloquent teachers.

For this month we are featuring exclusive instruction on the volley from his "All-Court Game and the Volley" video. Please note that the video begins with audio instruction for the first 40 seconds before moving into the slow motion video analysis.

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Doug King studied with legendary tennis coach Tom Stow and was a former California State Men's Singles Champion and the former number one men's player of Northern California.

Doug is one of the country's foremost tennis teaching innovators. Founder of Acceleration Tennis, a revolutionary teaching system, King is leading the way in reinterpreting the traditional tennis model.

For more information on Acceleration Tennis please email Doug King at dking@meadowood.com.

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