When They Target Your Backhand: Run Around to the Forehand

Summary

tanner.pickleball shares a deceptive kitchen pattern pros use when opponents keep targeting the backhand.

Anticipate the pattern and run around to take it on the forehand. That change-up throws them off, opens attack angles, and leaves them unsure what’s coming next. Don’t just survive the backhand target — flip the look.

Key takeaways

• Anticipate repeated backhand targets at the kitchen
• Run around to the forehand to disrupt their pattern
• Use the new look to open attacks they aren’t set for

Action items

• Kitchen: partner feeds 15 to your BH side; take at least 8 by running around FH
• Live games: note how often you break a BH-target pattern with a run-around