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There were 10 teams in the bracket and these are the last two teams standing at this level hitting the ball just a little bit too high can get a team in trouble and it happens a number of times in this game now there are popups which I consider to be a ball that is hit above the shoulders allowing a player to take the ball out of the air and put it.

Away these shots are not popups they are shots that are hit just a little bit too high and by that I mean somewhere between the waist and the shoulders it usually occurs at the kitchen when players are dinking the dinking battle is going along just fine then for some reason a player hits it just a little too high their opponent can take it out.

Of the air they do so and they put it away the solution to stop this from happening it’s very simple bounce the ball make your opponent hit the ball off of the bounce that way you neutralize your opponent’s power what about you are you able to make the ball bounce thus nullifying your opponent’s power let let me know by leaving a comment in the.

Comment section below a big thank you to the YouTube channel Ron spaghetti man Fidel for posting this video let’s go here’s the first serve oh and that ball hit the corner of the back of the Court very nice shot let’s go back and take a look from the serve this is the third shot here makes his way up to the kitchen area nice job.

And just really well placed tried it again to that side but hit it out of the court so obviously the guy in the black shirt is looking to hit the ball where his opponents are not sometimes it’s a very small window and that’s what I’m talking about when I say hit the ball just a little.

Bit too high let’s go back and as you can see they’re patiently dinking here then all of a sudden the guy in Black just pops it up just a little bit too high to where his opponent can take it out of the air right there that ball barely went out I mean he almost got that.

In nice third shot drop falling back why do that why do that I don’t understand make your opponents hit the ball off of the bounce be patient third shot Drive fif shot Drive seventh shot good hands by the guy in white as you could see what happened there the guy hitting these third shots and fifth shot drives.

Was never able to move up he’s still in the transition zone his partner tried to poach it and just could not do it at the 5.0 level you just cannot win from the middle of the Court you have to be able to find a way to move forward again just hit a little bit too high into that area between the waist and the shoulders I mean it’s not much too high.

But it’s high enough to where he can take it out of the air right there and boom bounce the ball continue to dink goodbye it was obvious what was going to happen there he pops it up goodbye you cannot do that at the 5.0 level nice job by the guy in white not uh stepping into the kitchen very.

Nice that’s out of the Court nice try third shot Dro to his backhand just hit it a little bit too far and it went out that’s a good shot but nice drop goodbye wow watch this again right here all this player has to do is drop the ball in the kitchen and his opponent’s power will be extinguished instead look at the position of his paddle and watch.

Where the ball goes boom nice Ernie by the player in white there’s another shot that was really not popped up high it was just high enough to where his opponent could put it away Drive got got it almost reset it nice job too high let’s watch again Watch where he hits it look at this he can take it out of the air here he’s got to find a way to get.

This ball to bounce he cannot and the ball is put away when I play with my mixed doubles partner we will play a game and the goal is to never let our opponents hit the ball out of the air believe me we never go a whole game without doing it but that is our goal it’s recreational play we just do it to improve and make sure that we can.

Nullify our opponent’s power as often as possible great job here who’s going to be the first one to hit it too high he is he did it again I mean it’s just so clear what is happening here these are really really good he hits it too high tried to speed it up and the point is put away again at this level there’s very.

Little room for error nope you’ve got to do better with the third shot that is just too easy he got that one in nice job too high look at this watch this backand watch where the ball goes look where it is instead of Landing the ball in the kitchen and having it bounce he hits it.

Here so his opponent has the easy backhand put away goodbye oh he saved it goodbye once again I mean you’re just seeing this over and over and over and this is at the 5.0 level oh he had to hit that falling back and his partner could only pop it up now that was a popup the other shots.

Were really not popups they were just slightly hit a little too high oh he got the roll of the tape got a little lucky on that one they tap paddles like sorry about that that’s a great shot so is that just missed the dink good.

Shot watch again Watch What Happens this is just a great third shot drop right here to his backhand nice get there but Watch What Happens just too high make the ball bounce drive that was out of the Court just barely I did a video the other day where Ben Johns and Eder Wright were playing against uh piznik and bar they actually.

Had a dinking contest that went 57 shots do you think any of these shots are going to go 57 shots I don’t think so oh look at this I’m going to back this I’ve got to back this up the the player in the orangs just blew it he had the opportunity to put that ball away but he let the ball bounce he could have easily reached out into the kitchen and gotten.

That ball but he chose to let it bounce and that’s just a mistake look right here when you have this opportunity you have got to take it this guy is tall look at this he could definitely have put this ball away but look what he does he backs up and he lets the ball bounce and they end up losing the point because the player in white ended up.

Hitting it tooo high and his opponent hit it out of the air unlike his partner who let it bounce when he should have taken it out of the air there’s a missed third shot drop attempt you’re not going to make all of them nope nope oh he did it he reset it but he didn’t move up still stuck in the back of the.

Court and the player in Black missed that shot if I was the player in Orange I would have hit it to the player in white and kept him at the back of the court but the player in back black uh missed the shot into the net that was a very very shallow return and what should have happened there because it was so shallow the.

Player in Orange should have driven this ball that he chooses to try to drop it and he missed it another Soo return he drives it cannot move up get stuck in the middle of the court and misses the shot into the net so as good as that third shot Drive was hit as hard as it was hit it did not allow him to move.

Forward yeah let’s try to lob the ball over his head simply not going to work good job here oh he missed it right when I said good job he makes the unforced error this is a very close game 452 Drive oh got lucky there nice job putting it away why did.

That happen why did he put that ball away because it was hit between his waist and his shoulder nice try it looked like he was going to hit a third shot drive but I think he realized his last third shot Drive did not work so he try to drop and he missed it drive nope could not get the reset Watch What.

Happens here he hits the third shot drive here he tries to move up but he gets stuck in the transition Zone his third shot Drive did not allow him to get all the way up to the kitchen his opponents saw that and did a really good job of hitting it to him when he was stuck in the transition zone there’s the guy in Black going for.

A very small window and he hit it out of the Court nice third shot drop but he’s still stuck at the back of the Court still stuck at the back of the Court he makes it all the way up and he misses that shot all of that effort just to miss the shot into the net but a good third shot a good fifth shot and a good.

Shot to get him up to the kitchen got the tape there good get speed up did not work for some reason in the uh video jumped there but a very good point not sure what happened I know the team hit it into the net uh not sure why but again there was a glitch in the.

Video that’s very good that’s very good that’s very good oh he made the ATP around the post hit his opponent’s feet just just a fantastic shot she better call that in yeah the guy in Orange is applauding he should just a great.

Shot out of the Court the guy in white has a very good backhand the player walking towards the camera now okay the team in the near court is starting to pull ahead it’s 742 and it’s because the team in the far court is starting to make unforced errors while the team in the near court is serving and they call a timeout here.

To try to regroup they keep dinking to that player’s backand now they switch it up here good get good get again oh that ball was going out of the court and he hit it oh my I understand what happened he didn’t want to take the chance of it actually falling in the court so he stuck his.

Paddle up and hit it into the net very good point by all four players Goodbye Oh the guy in white poached that shot great shot let’s go back and take a look nice backhand right down the middle of the court that was a shake and bake there look at the third shot drive here there.

It was and he put the fifth shot away all the player in white could do was Pop the ball up to the guy that was in the transition zone and he hit a really good fifth shot Drive he’s trying it again that was a really good point what happened is the guy in Black tries to speed the point up the ball was at his.

Knees and that ball was not really eligible to be sped up just too low that guy has a fantastic backhand there’s a lob that works got the players out of position had to run up to try to get it that’s just such a good shot such a good shot here hit to his backand he pops it up too high and put.

Away so the team in the near court is really running away with this now it was a very close game earlier it no longer is the score is 1051 he’s so good at that backhanded shot I think he prefers his backhand to his forehand and there’s the unforced era into the net ending the first game the team in the near Court went on to win.

The second game and they took home the gold medal so there you have it one team that was just a little bit better than the other I think all of the players were very very good I think the team that lost lost because they simply made more unforced errors than the other team but as you just witnessed there were a number of shots that were hit just a.

Little bit too high and when they were they were put away let me know what you think about the way these players played by leaving a comment in the comment section below that’s it from pick aall pick aart I really hope you learned something from watching this video and if you did I hope you take the time to like it subscribe to my channel and.

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In this video, a gold medal game at the 2024 U. S. Open. There are some shots that are hit just a little bit too high and each time, the opponent puts the shot away. To stop having that happen, bounce the ball.

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