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

Is your bandeja too bouncy? 🎾

11 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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Sandy Farquharson explains why your bandeja bounces too high in matches even though you can keep it low in practice. A bouncy bandeja turns your net advantage into defense. He breaks down three reasons this happens and how to fix each one.

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One of the most frustrating things about your bandeja is when you hit it and it's always bouncy at the other end. It bounces down, it hits the glass, sometimes it kicks up, and your opponents attack that ball, and you've turned a position at the net into a defense because you are keeping your bandeja bouncy. In this video, we're going to give you 3 reasons that this shot is bouncy for you and how you can fix it. Some of the most frustrating things about this is that You know what you should be doing with this Bandeja. You've seen the theory, you understand it, you know you should try and keep the ball low at the other end, you know you want to give yourself a difficult ball for your opponents that gives you time to get back to net. And actually, you might even find in practice you hit it really well when your coach is feeding you, or you're using a ball machine. You're under the ball very nicely and you can hit it where you want. But when it gets into a game you feel like it gets out of control and you don't really know what you're doing wrong.