{"id":26,"date":"2026-09-05T12:15:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-tennis-club-pro\/2026\/09\/05\/doubles-positioning-where-to-stand-and-why\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T12:15:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:15:43","slug":"doubles-positioning-where-to-stand-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-tennis-club-pro\/2026\/09\/05\/doubles-positioning-where-to-stand-and-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubles Positioning: Where to Stand and Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most club doubles points are won or lost by position, not by shot quality. Learn these simple rules and you will cover the court with half the effort.<\/p>\n<h2>Move as a team<\/h2>\n<p>Imagine you and your partner are joined by a three-metre rope. When one moves left, the other follows.<\/p>\n<h2>Take the net<\/h2>\n<p>The team that controls the net usually wins the point. Follow good approach shots in and close the gaps together.<\/p>\n<h2>Cover the middle<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Agree before the match who takes balls down the middle<\/li>\n<li>Usually it is the player with the forehand in the centre<\/li>\n<li>Call &#8220;mine&#8221; early and loudly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simple positioning rules that will win you more points in Tuesday night doubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,18],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-tips","tag-doubles","tag-tactics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-tennis-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-tennis-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-tennis-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-tennis-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-tennis-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-tennis-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-tennis-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-tennis-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-tennis-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-tennis-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}