Tactics help
Hi all,
Been playing padel for over a year now, consider myself to be somewhere between low and high intermediate lol maybe thats just intermediate and I play on the left. Anyway, I feel like my defense is good(same with my partner). I will get some really difficult balls out especially if I am positioned right, but I am struggling to know whether I should go to the net or stay back if my opponent is about to do a bandeja/vibora. Most of the things I have read say that if for example my opponent on the left is about to do these shots after me or my partners lob, then I have to be the one to go close to the net and my partner stays back? Some suggest we both go up so I am not sure.
We have 2 main issues:
1. We struggle to return good lobs when being under pressure, something we are working on of course. Same goes for a Chiquita if possible. And by pressure I mean letting these volleys bounce of the glass and go weird ways and having to to a lob not in a comfort zone (again we can only get better at this from experience). This will come with time I am not worried we are only a year in.
- If we do manage a good lob after being bombarded, we lack the experience to act on it straight away and take the net maybe because we are waiting to see if it is a good enough lob or just tired from defending.
Where as I think that if we both go to the net right after we know we did a decent lob, being able to block their volley from there will put them under pressure, but I guess the risk is if it goes past us that it will be harder to recover.
Anyway just looking for some tips and also just to mention what I am talking about here are volleys from just past the base line, obviously if they are right at the net about to volley/smash I know we both stay back/prep for a cheeky dropshot. Thanks!