If you’re looking for the best pickleball drills and practice games to improve your skills, you don’t need to rely on boring repetition. Pickleball mini-games combine strategy, fitness, and fun while sharpening essential skills such as consistency, decision-making, and mental toughness.
These three mini-games are fast, easy to pick up, and guaranteed to make practice way more fun.
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- Dingles If you are a tennis player, especially one who played at the high school or collegiate level, you most likely know this drill. Dingles is exactly what it sounds like: it’s a combination of singles and doubles.
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Skills Improved: court awareness, focus/intensity, full-court shot making, moving with your partner
How to Play Dingles There are many variations of this game, but I like to play it with all four players at the kitchen. Each point starts with two balls. You enter a dink rally with your opponent, either cross-court or down the line, where the goal is to outlast and beat them in that exchange. At the same time, your teammate is locked in their own dink rally with the other opponent.
Once a rally is won, the person who won the singles rally screams out “Dingles,” and the remaining ball in play is now live and the point turns into a full-court doubles point. You and your partner only log a point on the scoreboard if you win both the singles and double... FULL ARTICLE FOUND ON: https://www.thedinkpickleball.com/three-pickleball-drills-disguised-as-games/
