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Steve Dawson
When choosing your fourth shot options, the most difficult option to deal with is when your opponent hits a great third shot drop. This would be a ball that sort of slips over the net and lands in your kitchen as you’re running up to the net after your return is served. When that happens, the most important thing that you can do with your fourth shot is to make sure that you can have it land in front of them.
So if their third shot is good, your opponent is going to be creeping up to the net. When the ball lands in your kitchen, if you try to attack it or hit it too far or too hard, that becomes a ball that’s in the air for your opponent to kill. When a fourth shot is done against a successful third, that means that you make sure the ball bounces in front of your opponent, or else you’re going to get killed by it.