Sandy FarquharsonFounder at The Padel School | Elevating Padel Players' Performance

Coming from tennis to padel? Your volley needs to change #padel #padeltips #padeltennis #sports

18 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this short coaching video, the instructor explains three essential adjustments tennis players must make when transitioning their volley to padel. First, the racket should be held more vertically to create a ready position. Second, the elbows should be kept close together, making the shot compact. Third, the player should brush the ball downwards, using a chopping motion to generate slice. The speaker invites viewers to comment "volleys" to receive a detailed volley playbook for further development.

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Let's go! Transitioning from tennis to padel with the volley, there are 3 main changes. The tennis volley, typically you hit out in front and you block the ball with the objective to just hit past your opponent, but in padel you need 3 things. First is get this racket more vertical. We want a ready position with a vertical racket. We want to squeeze with our elbows so we're compact on the shot, and then we want to Brush down that ball, really chopping on the ball to create the slice. If you want to continue to develop your volleys, put volleys in the comments and we will send you our volley playbook.