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

Want to improve your volleys instantly? Start with your ready position 👇🎾

6 May 2026 · 0 min

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In this short instructional video, three coaches discuss key elements for improving tennis volleys. Speaker A stresses the importance of the ready position—keeping the racket above the hand—to enable a clean downward swing, noting that intermediate players who adopt this will see immediate volley improvement. Speaker B explains how advancing from intermediate to advanced play requires not only accuracy but also the ability to add slice to the volley, creating a low‑rebound shot that stays low after hitting the ground or glass, a technique they call a "setup volley with slice." Speaker C acknowledges the difficulty players face in self‑assessment and promotes thepaddleschool.com, a community platform offering personalized roadmaps to guide players through the right training steps to elevate their game.

I think immediately is this, this position here with the volley, like ready position here, keeping the racket above the hand so that we can come down the ball. I think if intermediate players do this, immediately their volleys will be better.
As you go up the levels from intermediate to advanced, it's accuracy of the volleys, but it's also the ability to put slice on and keep the rebound low at the other end. And so what we're working on here with this group is to work on that, what we call like a setup volley, but a volley with slice so that when it hits the ground, hits the glass, it stays low and it can set them up. So I think that's probably the difference between the volley quality of intermediate to advanced level.
As a player, it's sometimes challenging to know, am I doing the right thing? Am I taking my game to that next level? Am I training the right aspects of my game? And that's exactly why we created thepaddleschool.com. On there, our community of players across the world have a roadmap specific to them and their game so they know that they're transforming their game in the right way. Head to thepaddleschool.com or the link in bio to learn more.