Basic Tennis Strategy From The Baseline - How To Decide What To Play

The basic strategy and decision process when playing tennis from the baseline is relatively simple but it requires good discipline to give you good results. More videos like this in the membership section:    • Members-only videos  

The basic baseline strategy works on the 80/20 principle:
- when you're behind the baseline you'll play just a deep ball into a big target 80% of the time
- the other 20% allow you to play more aggressively (or more precisely) but the incoming ball must be slow and in your ideal strike zone
- when you're well inside the court you should ideally try to open up the court in 80% of the cases, but you need to have time and be positioned well
- the other 20% allow you to either hit a faster down the line shot, an approach shot or a drop shot

These are just simple guidelines and not rules but they should help you avoid making stupid unforced errors and cause you to lose matches that you shouldn't.

0:00 Intro
1:23 Behind the baseline
4:00 Inside the court
7:31 Taking the ball early?
9:38 Attacking short balls