3 great place to return a serve are short wide angles or very deep straight back at the servers feet. A lot of servers don’t recover very well after serving so putting them in a hard to move position is very effective
Returner can use the pace of the serve on first serves and step in more on second serves.
Coach acts as the returner first to show how diifficult it is to move to those areas after serving.
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