43 free videos on technique, drills and tips, each tagged by level
Reviewer Excellent analogy plus a concrete rule you can actually apply.
Moderator Textbook doubles positioning instruction: the 'rope connecting partners' model for maintaining spacing, plus a concrete rule for who guards the line versus who pinches the middle based on ball location. Exactly and comprehensively the named skill.
Reviewer Simple rule, clear reasoning, addresses the most common positioning mistake directly.
Moderator Squarely about kitchen-line court positioning: the one-step rule for shifting with the ball, plus the core doubles principle of staying in your own lane rather than helping your partner. Exactly the target skill.
Reviewer Backs the kitchen-line rule with real data and clear math instead of just asserting it. Great fundamentals video.
Moderator Entirely about why and how to get to the kitchen line first — the foundational positioning concept in doubles. No digression.
Reviewer Pro coach, real rally footage, correct fundamentals. One of the best beginner breakdowns here.
Moderator Entire video is positioning/strategy for new doubles players — moving to the kitchen as a unit, staggering, and middle coverage via the X. Squarely on-skill.
Reviewer As good as this kind of teaching gets -- a clear concept, then real match footage proving it point by point.
Moderator This is the conceptual foundation of the entire skill -- the two forces (closing distance to apply pressure after a good shot vs. creating space/time when you're in trouble) that drive every positioning decision in doubles. About as squarely on-topic as it gets.
Reviewer Genuinely advanced positioning detail, shown right-way vs. wrong-way in real match play. Excellent.
Moderator Title and content are entirely about doubles court positioning — four specific footwork/positioning themes applied live in pro (WCK) match play. Nothing else covered.
Reviewer Clean, specific fixes — the 'creep forward a third' rule is a keeper.
Moderator Serve-and-stay, staggered creep-forward positioning behind your partner, return-of-serve positioning — a comprehensive rundown of doubles positioning mistakes, squarely on topic.
Reviewer Excellent — busts two positioning myths a lot of players still play by.
Moderator This is entirely about who covers what shot and where you stand relative to your partner based on where the ball is — dead center of the sub-skill.
Reviewer A genuine tactical framework, not just 'cover the court' hand-waving.
Moderator A full framework for doubles court coverage -- squarely, thoroughly on-skill.
Reviewer Practical, specific, and resolves a common source of doubles confusion.
Moderator Squarely about doubles court coverage responsibility: the diagonal player takes speed-ups and dinks, contrasted explicitly with the 'forehand covers the middle' alternative. Exactly the named skill.
Reviewer Clears up the #1 confusing rule in doubles — who takes the middle — with live points. Solid.
Moderator Whole clip is live-ball demonstration of the crosscourt 'X' responsibility rule and who covers the middle — never strays into anything but doubles positioning.
Reviewer Clears up the exact confusion that wrecks most rec-level doubles teams — genuinely useful.
Moderator This is a five-tactic breakdown and the first two are pure court positioning — the whole 'follow the ball, close the gap, who covers middle vs. line' logic, then the lob rule about both partners resetting to midcourt together instead of one staying up. Built specifically to teach positioning, not just touching on it.
Reviewer One of the clearest explanations of doubles positioning I've seen.
Moderator Exactly the skill: 'moving without the ball', reading where your partner has to go and repositioning to protect them, with a specific step-by-step transition-zone movement pattern.
Reviewer The rope analogy for staying in sync with your partner is a keeper.
Moderator Entirely, explicitly about doubles-specific positioning and what separates it from singles. Squarely on-skill.
Reviewer Solid system — thirds instead of halves, with the down-the-line always the priority. Correct and useful, if repetitive.
Moderator Whole video is a specific court-coverage system (dividing the court into thirds rather than halves) for mixed doubles — squarely about positioning responsibility.
Reviewer Clear, footage-backed breakdown of two real positioning concepts — worth watching.
Moderator 'Respecting the X' is just another name for the same follow-the-ball positioning principle, plus a second concept — drop-and-wait, when to commit forward off your partner's third shot drop based on its trajectory. Both tactics are positioning, illustrated with actual game footage the whole way through.
Reviewer The hand-signal system for disguising a stack shift is a nice, concrete addition most explainers skip.
Moderator A full, thorough stacking lesson -- squarely on-skill.
Reviewer Specific, well-reasoned coverage rules -- you'll walk away knowing exactly what to do differently.
Moderator This is positioning through and through -- specific court-coverage responsibilities by role, how far the male can poach across the middle before he's exposed, and why. Exactly the sub-skill.
Reviewer Really clear, actionable coverage rule.
Moderator Directly about how two partners divide court coverage against a speed-up: who takes which side, when to shift over to help. Textbook doubles positioning.
Reviewer Solid, well-demonstrated positioning basics for new doubles teams.
Moderator Return-and-run vs. return-and-stay is a positioning decision at its core, plus stance/readiness at the kitchen line and serve-and-stay positioning — squarely doubles positioning for newer players.
Reviewer Real strategic nuance from a top-10 player — how to actually manipulate a mixed point, not just 'guy takes the middle.'
Moderator Whole interview is about role division and court coverage in mixed doubles — how much space the man takes, when to poach, how the woman manipulates dinks to set up her partner. Squarely about doubles positioning, specifically the mixed format.
Reviewer Nails a mistake most players don't even realize they're making.
Moderator About exactly where to stop in the transition zone after your third shot so your fifth-shot reset isn't hit from too far back — this is positioning, specifically.
Reviewer Good fix for a real intermediate habit — attacking too early instead of setting the shot up first.
Moderator About setting up points and spreading opponents to open the middle before attacking — that's positioning strategy applied to shot sequencing, squarely tied to the doubles-positioning skill even though it leans into shot selection.
Reviewer Clean, accurate positioning rule you can use point one.
Moderator This is the core doubles-positioning rule at the net: step toward wherever the ball's dinked and point your paddle there, stay centered otherwise.
Reviewer Explains the why clearly before the how -- good structure, minor plug aside.
Moderator All about stacking as a doubles positioning tool -- squarely on-skill.
Reviewer Explains a pattern you see in every pro match and actually tells you why it happens.
Moderator A pro breaking down his own match footage specifically on court spacing/positioning -- squarely on-skill, grounded in real match video rather than a generic explainer.
Reviewer Clean 60-second explanation of the core rule — good starting point.
Moderator Same core positioning rule as the others — stay centered in your box, react to your partner's shot with one step and paddle pointed. Entirely on topic.
Reviewer Good concept, but hard to follow without seeing the board.
Moderator Squarely about doubles positioning: explains the stacking strategy, how partners position and shift before/after serves to keep a preferred side. Exactly the named skill.
Reviewer Good, correct rule of thumb — just brief, one concept and done.
Moderator Squarely about positioning: after you hit a third shot drop, your first two steps should follow the ball so you don't leave the middle exposed. That's a specific doubles-positioning rule.
Reviewer Accurate and to the point -- know this rule before you try any stacking strategy.
Moderator Short and precise -- explains the actual rule governing where the non-serving/non-receiving partner may stand (anywhere on their own side), which is the legal foundation underneath every stacking strategy. Directly on-topic, if narrow.
Reviewer Good real strategic insight, just a bit rambly in the delivery.
Moderator He's breaking down his own mixed match point by point specifically to explain WHY he poaches balls that look like they should be his partner's — that's positioning, straight up. Isolating the weaker player, numbers game based on who has more putaway power, communication logic behind taking a ball early. It stays on positioning almost the entire time.
Reviewer Actual distances to work with, not just 'stay close to your partner'.
Moderator About dink-rally spacing and coverage between partners specifically -- squarely within doubles positioning, if narrower in scope (just the kitchen-line dink phase).
Reviewer Clear, specific tactical logic for mixed doubles coverage.
Moderator A specific mixed-doubles positional strategy: keep the ball in front of one partner so the other can shade over and take more court aggressively. This is genuinely about team court coverage and role allocation.
Reviewer Smart framing — treats getting to the net as an odds game, backed by real pro rallies. Worth the watch.
Moderator Covers approach-to-net decision-making (drive vs. drop, how hard to hit it, when to concede) using real pro match footage — that's positioning strategy, though it leans more toward shot selection during the transition than static court position.
Reviewer Honest, specific, and it comes from someone who was actually on the court -- good stuff.
Moderator Real tournament footage narrated by one of the players, with specific coverage calls explained as they happen -- who takes the middle versus the line depending on where a speed-up originates, and self-critique on a point where the coverage should have been tighter. That's positioning in live competition.
Reviewer High-quality, demonstrated by real tour players — you can see the positioning logic work in real time.
Moderator Real doubles-positioning content is in here — footwork syncing with your partner ('rope between us'), and specifically who takes the middle dink (forehand player protects the weaker backhand). But a good chunk is shot-selection/targeting strategy for mixed doubles rather than pure positioning, so it's not exclusively on this sub-skill.
Reviewer Good insight if you can watch along — leans heavily on the video itself.
Moderator Frame-by-frame breakdown of a real high-level point, focused on partner positioning during the transition — the 'lead-in' concept, reading the ball off your partner's paddle. Squarely on topic.
Reviewer Good positioning logic for mixed doubles, if a bit reliant on watching the clip.
Moderator Stacking, middle coverage, and non-hitting partner positioning in mixed doubles specifically — this is doubles positioning applied to a mixed-doubles context. On topic.
Moderator Sit forehand, slide backhand — specific positioning rules tied to ball height and side. Squarely doubles positioning.
Reviewer Turns positioning into rules you can actually apply mid-point.
Reviewer Explains the why behind each position, not just where to stand.
Moderator A good chunk of this is spent contrasting with singles positioning before it gets to doubles-specific half-court/bisecting-your-half content, so it covers the named skill among other things rather than being wall-to-wall doubles.
Reviewer Simple, practical fix for the miscommunication that costs most doubles teams points.
Moderator Communication and positioning so both partners move as one — this is squarely doubles positioning as a team concept.
Reviewer Good positioning lesson buried in match commentary.
Moderator Real-match breakdown that includes a genuine positioning correction: Walter not shifting to the centerline on a crosscourt dink, leaving his partner to cover everything. That's squarely this skill, mixed in with broader shot-decision commentary.
Reviewer One good idea, explained well, but padded out with merch and app plugs.
Moderator The core idea -- open your paddle face toward the middle when you shift to the sideline, and vice versa, to react to speed-ups and stay unpredictable -- is a real positioning/readiness habit at the kitchen line. It's narrower than team court coverage, more about your own paddle-ready position as you move, but it's a genuine positioning skill.