Tournament Insights
Singles: Pickleball’s OTHER Event
Jun
Most pickleball players have only been introduced to the doubles game, and it makes sense.
I was recently asked how to play singles and how it differs from doubles. In doubles you work on keeping the ball in play, have a lot of dink rallies, and hit to the middle of the court. Singles demands you to be more aggressive. Players generally hit deep, hard groundstrokes with sharper angles. In singles, one of the goals is to keep your opponent on the move and in the back court. The aggressive, hard, deep groundstroke game agrees especially with many players coming from a tennis background.
In the doubles game, you work as a team. You share court coverage; you use each other’s strengths; there’s communication and cooperation. In singles, you’re in control of 100% of the game. It’s just you to cover the court; it’s only your strengths (and weaknesses). Singles is a much more physically demanding game. If players are equally matched, the player in the better condition will usually win.
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