Advice for a new player

First off welcome to the sport glad you're trying to improve. The easiest way is to stand further back wait for the ball to rebound off the glass while you are stood sideways (almost facing the glass, left leg forward right leg back) this will give you ample time to judge the bounce and make a quality return. Now something to keep in mind the above applies if the ball bounces and hits the first glass panel. If the ball trajectory shows it will hit the second glass panel(side glass panel closest to the back of the court forming court corner) take your shot before it hits the glass. Hope that helps

For beginner level, you cannot just sit and wait for the ball on these as it will either pass you behind or bounce off towards your body. The best strategy is to go with for the ball and either respond before it hits the wall, or right after. Depends on the angle and the spin, the ball may come out a lot in direction of your body, you could take a step to the side/back and return normally, but as said, it's a more intermediate shot as it requires better footwork and more gamesense to understand where the ball may go

Youtube channel. Everything padel. Has a fantastic video on how to return these. (Im also new. And i struggled with this too.). Not so much now.

As a lefty, when I see serves off the glass, I cheat by taking a step towards center court and angling my body to hit it off the glass. For clarity, I'm a newer player (2) and playing against similar, up to 2.5. My cheat wont work against much more experienced players...but, speed helps if someone trys to go the other way :)

FWIW this is something everyone struggles when starting. It’s timing, positioning, and if they served with power, you don’t need to add any - it’s more of a block or deflection. The problem is that on actual games, you don’t get much repetition to improve. I had a lesson where I had the person serve as hard as possible, repeatedly, for about 10 minutes. It lets you incrementally figure out what works.

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Ok bud, I'm also a lefty, I also play on the right and I also play in the UK. I wish I knew what I'm about to tell you a long time ago as that would've saved me a lot of overall distrust on my backhand. When you try to return the serve, what are your feet doing? My guess is your left foot is moving towards the ball. If so, you're dead before the ball reaches you. You end up leaning over the left leg which makes it harder to get down to the low ones, you'll also tend to scoop the ones you do return. So do this: Prepare your racket EARLY. Normal backhands, should be like your putting the handle in your pocket. Racket head is more pointed down in the serve return (not all the way). Where your racket head is a preference thing but early prep is a non negotiable. However, the secret sauce on a serve off the glass... Change your feet. Move your left leg over to your left away from the glass. How far over is up to you, but it has to be outside of your right foot. Anything upto 45 degrees is ideal in terms of the angle between your left and your right leg. This helps in a multitude of ways but for you, the best reasons are: 1) gets your left leg out of the way so you don't have to reach over and around it. 2) makes it very easy to get to know ones 3) creates space for you to play your shot, whereas by moving your feet toward the ball you front shoulder faces the side wall and your chest will at best face the back corner and at worst the back glass which is a horrible place from which to play a return of serve . 4) opens the court up for you to play the ball where you want. It's called a semi-open stance and should be applied to any ground stroke. Hope that helps champ. Give it a shot

Helpful advice so far. One thing hasn’t been mentioned: don’t swing, I mean, don’t backswing on serve returns, especially if they are coming in fast. They already have the speed. You just need to “deflect” it back. So if the serve is going to hit the first glass, I take a step back, prepare my racket low and in front of me and wait for the rebound. Stay on your toes and watch the ball. You can always go towards it (but not backwards). So if your racket is prepared in front of you and low, and you are watching the ball rebound, then you basically just “pick up” the ball - you have two options, either try to hit a lob return, or hit it shoulder/head high towards the backhand side of the server. Try both return directions. You’ll learn what works for you and what works against other opponents. (I’m 2.6 Playtomic level in Spain) Edit - just to add, shoulder / head high backhand area is good to return to, because usually the server will be running towards the net, and a high backhand while running is a hard shot to hit, they can’t do much with it. If it’s a high forehand, they can smash or hit an ok volley, but a high backhand is an awkward shot for beginner / intermediate level, especially while running

Welcome to the sport! I’m still learning too, but what helped me is not rushing to hit the ball too early. Try to read the bounce off the glass, take a small step back, and focus on getting the ball back in play rather than hitting a perfect shot. Also, don’t overplay at the start. Warm up properly and just have fun with it. For me, 2–3 times a week is enough.

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you're facing a problem that most players have, even in high amateur levels. there are several solutions but none is one that makes that situation easy and "solved". as some said, you can wait for the rebound, allthough that only works if the serve has no ugly effect or is very low or soft. i struggle(d) with the same. My solution is usually to stand closer to the glas and focus on getting it right before the glass. for that, i move the racket first (not my body) to the position and usually just let it touch it with not a lot of my own swing movement. just a firm, stable push is enough to bring it back. you can try longline first and once you feel like you get an idea about timing, touch etc, you start bringing angles in. But also, taking it after the glass is not wrong, especially when the serve is bouncy or higher in general

I'm fairly new to the game and now dealing with this reasonably well. You don't want to be hitting really close to the glass, immediately after the rebound if at all possible. This means you have to judge if it will be high enough to hit when it's come 500mm from the glass or not. If it's not going to be high enough you need to step forward and hit it before it hits the glass, if it's going to be high enough, you're all good, let it bounce off and away you go. It takes tens of games to get to the point that you can adequately anticipate the bounce off the glass in all situations so don't feel bad if you misjudge, just keep playing and you'll get better and better at anticipating where it will be.

I was in the same boat as you a year back when I started. The key here is patience. Learn to understand the ball trajectory, allow the ball to hit the glass and thene return it. Ideally, if the ball hits glass 1 then the rebound is at glass 3, and 4 for glass two. Glass 1 is the first glass after the mesh. Would be better if you play on left side for now till you are able hit ball off the glass. Would be easier here. Move to right when you have mastered the left side. Best of luck.

I guess you either need to use your back hand or switch court side. I am right handed so I just take a step back so I have room to get it after the first bounce off the glass, or step forward and intercept before it hits the glass