Au padel, we try to place the ball in the perfect zone, and in the end we lose the point. Too often we analyze the potential of a shot (between risk and chance of winning the point), and we continue to want to put the ball in very difficult playing areas.

This column will therefore aim to advise you to reduce this risk, with a leitmotiv: Play in the middle, between your opponents.

The winning pair is the one who misses the least.

This is one of the most common adages in the world of Padel.

Regularity is the big difference between us amateur players and professional players (not to mention their talent, their work obviously). But if you watch a match of professional players, you will observe few direct mistakes, few returns in the glass or in the net for example.

After that, there are situations where you can not do much. For example, when your opponent makes a very low volley where it is almost impossible to take it back, the merit is his and you can not blame yourself for that.

In general, at padel, the better we play, the more we play balanced games with long points. Because your opponents play better.

So you have to work your opponents to get the "easy" ball that will allow you to complete the point. To achieve this, you need patience, there are many possibilities to make a mistake, but you have to wait for the perfect moment to try to finish the point.

The game in the center of the field.

Playing in the middle between your opponents can be a strategy that can give you a lot of points throughout the match. The return between foul and earned point will be largely in your favor, so do not hesitate to play this zone.

However, we must not rush to play all the balls in the middle, it is necessary above all to move the opponents to create a gap to be able to deposit the ball calmly in the middle of the field.

This is a difficult area to defend and easy for you to attack, and as you now know whoever wins in padel is the one that misses the least.

What can we get from playing in the middle?

  • Minimum risk of mistakes and a high percentage of points earned.
  • Security in driving your game
  • To move his opponents, to force them to cover more ground than usual.
  • A confusion between the opponents when the ball is in the middle.
  • Once you have used your opponents to play in the middle, they will leave more space in the corners.
Alexis Dutour

Alexis Dutour is passionate about padel. With his training in communication and marketing, he puts his skills at the service of padel to offer us articles that are always very interesting.

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