Pickleball Tips - 4.0 To Pro, A Pocket-Sized Pickleball Podcast 58: Right Side Play (Revisited)
Dec 24, 2025
The hosts dive into advanced strategies for right-side play, emphasizing the importance of communication and spacing with partners. They explore how to leverage strengths and address ego in team dynamics. Tips include using dead dinks to bait opponents and varying attacks by pace and spin. Listeners learn about targeting backhands and the nuances of shifting positions on the court. Additionally, they discuss the concept of stacking and adapting strategies mid-game for optimal performance. A festive spirit ties the insights together!
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Defer To Your Partner's Strengths
- Let the stronger player take more middle court space and defer when it maximizes your pair's strengths.
- Communicate with your partner about comfort and movement to decide who covers which areas.
Use A Fake To Read Counters
- Fake a speed-up on a dead dink to reveal the opponent's preferred counter before attacking the other way.
- Use that read on their counter tendencies to choose your next attack spot.
Hit The Opponent's Middle Backhand
- Right-side dinks should target the backhand of the opposing right-side player near the middle stripe.
- That forces awkward inside-out backhand responses or straight risky dinks.