1. The Serve Strategy

The first of the padel tips and tricks, is the serve strategy. This is the process of mixing up your serve with body language and disguise in order to surprise your opponent and get some free and easy points.

The serve strategy explained
Let's go into this further, serving to the glass, which you should do, it makes it tricky for the opponent to return.

However, after the 20th time you have served to the glass, your opponents will have worked out how to deal with it, and will be a LOT more prepared for it.

So now, you do the same preparation, same body language, eye contact with the glass, and then....

Serve down the middle.

Hopefully, this will have surprised your opponent enough, that they don't expect it and are unable to return the ball.

But EVEN if they get the ball back, it doesn't matter.

NOW, your opponent doesn't know where you are going to serve to, they will be less prepared, it keeps them guessing.

Personally, if you do this tactic correctly, you can get 2-3 extra points in a game, now, let's say you choose these points at the right time, maybe when it is at your advantage on deuce.

If you win 3 points from our advantage, that is 3 extra games.

This is how you get the edge on your opponents by winning those CRUCIAL points.

2. Dealing With Your Partner

If you can work effectively as a team, then you will become stronger with your partner and the psychology behind it to get the best out of your partner.

4 Padel tips and tricks for dealing with your partner:

• Don't ever criticise, your partner will know when they have made a mistake, so you need to keep their confidence up. Uses phrases such as “hard luck” and “unlucky” to keep confidence up.
• Talk tactics with your partner and point out weaknesses in the opponent.
• Communicate well: let them know if the opponent is approaching the net, or what they could do in the middle of a point.

Do not ever coach your partner!

It does not work at all and will only decrease their confidence throughout the game.

Why?

• Completely breaks the momentum of any game by constantly stopping and hearing advice.
• Causes the partner to overthink every shot if they get coaching after every point.
• Lowers confidence of the partner.
• Can sometimes annoy the partner, they don't want coaching when they are playing.

Even if you are CLEARLY the better player, coaching your partner will do more harm than good.

3. The Grip

Let's go into some technical padel tips and tricks now.

Altering your grip can have some drastic improvements to your game.

It can change the power, control, and overall outcome on the ball, so let's look at our grip to see what we can do to help our shots.

Hold the grip lower for more power
Lot's of people hold the grip very high up, because it helps them keep their control. We want a nice, relaxed wrist, so holding the grip lower will help with this.
If you want more power on your smash, and more kick, then hold the grip lower and looser, this allows for more wrist action!

Don't hold too tightly
The looser and lower you hold your grip, the more relaxed you will be on the court, and you will be able to get more power and spin on the ball. You can use and throw your whole wrist into the shot when you do this strategy.

Again, not enough people talk about these padel tips and tricks, these are the tips that are going to make your shots more technically sound, and help you look more of a natural player on court.

One of the technical padel tips and tricks, but really effective.

CONCLUSION

Overall, if you follow these 3 padel tips and tricks, then you will able to get an edge over your opponent at playing Padel in Jakarta.

The most underrated one is the serve strategy, no one does this! But it can be so effective for you!