Tennis Tip: “Holding Your Return”

<h2><strong>Season #24 Episode: #27 Shaun Boyce and Ben Hestley</strong></h2><p>In this episode of Gotennis’s Atlanta Tennis Podcast, Ben Hestly dives deep into the often-overlooked but effective strategy of holding return. This skill is crucial in ensuring success particularly if you are competing at the B or C or Junior level. Join Shaun, as he listens to the Ben Hestley tennis tip.</p><h2>Our Expert:</h2><p>Ben Hestley: He is a USPTA certified tennis professional coach. He is currently working with the Bull Shark Sports. ARA named Ben the Independent Tennis Professional of the Year, 2022 for creating a tennis program at neighborhood facilities for nearly 150 kids. He has huge experience in working at the junior level.</p><p>Understanding the Efficacy of Holding The Return</p><ul><li>Hold return: Holding your return is a strategy when your opponent is at service and you try to score by breaking the service. It is a technique where you can use an opportunity meant for your opponent to your advantage.</li><li>Potency: Holding return can be effective at all levels but it is especially potent at the B, C or Junior level tennis. At these stages of tennis, the service is often the least developed tennis skill in players. So, once your opponent has done the serve and&nbsp; then a powerful and well-placed return can immediately put the server at the baseline and stop him/her from further attack and be on defense.</li></ul><h2>Other Implications</h2><ul><li>Mastering your hold on return cultivates aggressive mindset in returns</li><li>It facilitates attacking mentality, confidence and consistency in all levels of players</li></ul><h2>Join Us</h2><p>Join us to get such useful tips for tennis to upgrade your game. You can also share you story with us using our <a href="http://gettenniscourt.com/My-Tennis-Story/" target="_blank">my story</a> feature.Beyond tennis, we provide exciting news and updates on Atlanta Tennis, exclusive deals for top branded products- Tecnifibre. Join us for all these.If you find this tip useful then like and share with your mates.</p><p>USPTA Certified Tennis Professional Ben Hestley of Bull Shark Sports: <a href="https://bullsharksports.net/about-coach-ben" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bullsharksports.net/about-coach-ben</a></p><p>Shaun Boyce USPTA:&nbsp;<a href="mailto:shaun@tennisforchildren.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">shaun@tennisforchildren.com</a></p><p><a href="https://tennisforchildren.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tennisforchildren.com/</a>&nbsp;🎾</p><p>Bobby Schindler USPTA:&nbsp;<a href="mailto:schindlerb@comcast.net" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">schindlerb@comcast.net</a></p><p><a href="https://windermerecommunity.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://windermerecommunity.net/</a>&nbsp;🎾</p><p>Geovanna Boyce:&nbsp;<a href="mailto:geovy@regeovinate.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">geovy@regeovinate.com</a></p><p><a href="https://regeovinate.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://regeovinate.com/</a>&nbsp;💪🏼🏋️</p><p>This podcast is powered by GoTennis! 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Hey, hey, this is Shaun with the Atlanta Tennis Podcast,

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Today's tennis tip comes from Coach Ben Hesley

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of Bull Shark Sports.

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Hi, this is Ben Hesley from Bull Shark Sports.

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Today's tip, we're gonna be focused on holding return.

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Holding return means winning our return games.

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Very similar to how you hear holding surf,

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we're focused on winning the games

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in which someone is serving to us.

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In B and C, out to levels and low levels

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of junior competition, this is often the case

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because the surf is developmentally weaker

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than other parts of players' games.

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So it presents an opportunity to take advantage

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of our opponent's surf and then break their surf

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or what we like to call holding return.

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So when you're out there playing,

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think about how you can take advantage

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of that weaker surf, attack that,

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and then hold your return.

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Holding return is a concept maybe something I've not heard,

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but holding return is really, really viable

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in order to win matches at those B and C,

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out to levels and those lower levels

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of junior competition.

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I hope this helps.

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I hope that you learn to attack people's surf,

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be aggressive and hold return.

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