3 Patterns Top Pros Use to Plan Multiple Shots Ahead

3 Patterns Top Pros Use to Plan Multiple Shots Ahead

Anticipation is everything in pickleball. Use these three pro-proven scenarios to read your opponents and put yourself in a position to make a high percentage, winning play.

Knowing shot patterns is the key to advancing in pickleball.

It’s not enough to hit one good shot. Much like a chess game, you need to be thinking multiple moves ahead. Check out these shot combinations that you can employ over and over to win more points.

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  1. Speeding up Down the Line and Covering Middle Let me begin by saying that when speeding up, the location of the speed-up is everything. For this pattern, let’s assume you are playing the left. As you are dinking, use your dinks to eventually get a ball you can speed up.

For this specific pattern, I like to roll my backhand dink to the middle of the kitchen, or to the left foot of the right-side player opposite of me. Once I get a ball I feel good about speeding up, I will take my backhand and aim for the right side player across from me, targeting their right hip.

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