Racquetball Strategy: Ceiling Ball Returns

Video Transcript

"OKay. Court positioning when returning a ceiling ball. A lot of times, right after a good serve, your opponent's going to hit a ceiling ball. Sometimes you can anticipate getting back far enough when you know they're going to hit a ceiling. It's great to look over your shoulder, see if they're lining up to hit a kill shot, or if they're standing straight up and you can see that they're going to hit a ceiling ball. When you want to return these ceiling balls, your court positioning is key. If you just hang out here, they hit a ceiling ball, you're going to be running backwards and just getting it this way. To give yourself a jump on it, by seeing if they're going to hit a ceiling ball, then hit your serve, look back, you notice they're going to hit it back, run back here. Now you're in position, your feet are set and let the ball come to you. You don't want to chase the ball behind you and hit it here. You want to get back there as fast as you can. Now you're in good court positioning to hit a good solid shot, returning a ceiling ball. If they hit a perfect ceiling ball, it's still best to be all the way back here because you've cheated a little bit to get back here rather than waiting until they hit the shot. So get back as fast as you can and retrieve that ceiling ball."