High School Doubles

[bandyman35]

My partner and I won our regional championship on Wednesday, just wondered what you guys (and girls) thought of our doubles play. I'm the lefty in the hat, my partner is the righty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fPZv_O0hTKY

 

[Nostradamus]

what is this Ace fest ? those guys can't make any returns. do they not know if you face a big server, you should at least LOB some returns back in play and make your opponents play.
and if they have strong smashes, you play 2 back and play defense, you win a lot of points that way. Bryan bros do this all the time in pro tennis and it works even in the pros

 

[bandyman35]

I'd like to think it's just my nasty serve.

 

[BMC9670]

Hard to tell anything from this. It's just edited clips of service winners and poach winners. Where is this high-school? Doesn't look like a very high level to me.

 

[bandyman35]

My mom recorded and edited it, lol. I could upload the whole match, if you'd like. It's western Kentucky.

 

[SwankPeRFection]

I see a fence and a hack and slash slice backhand.

 

[GuyClinch]

It's hard to tell from that angle. I think you guys look pretty strong. Making it look easy is part of being good. I'd say 4.0 if you want to play in a league..

Lots of HS tennis is only 3.5 level so I disagree with people who say its not high level..Its not academy level but looks good to me - nice serves.

 

[ProgressoR]

I saw 3 points - on two of them you/your partner returned a serve from virtually the service line at contact, and the third was what looked like a very big serve that didnt come back from you the lefty in the hat.

It looks like a big mismatch, from those 3 strokes only, did you bagel them?

 

[MyTennisTools]

Yeah, a better camera angle is not that hard to get. Can't really tell anything from this. Sun didn't help, either. Looked pretty typical for high school tennis. What position doubles was this? What region?

 

[bandyman35]

It's #1 doubles, 3rd region.

 

[Nostradamus]

How far away are you from State final ? how many more matches do you have to win ?

 

[dlesser13]

You would haven't made it out of any of the big (4A and 5A) tennis districts in Texas, let alone regionals.

 

[NLBwell]

Pretty decent high school tennis, good job.