{"id":1004,"date":"2026-10-12T01:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2026-10-12T01:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:20:23","slug":"fix-the-tennis-swing-compact-backswing-for-pickleball-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1004","title":{"rendered":"Fix the Tennis Swing: Compact Backswing for Pickleball Drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Still Using a Tennis Swing in Pickleball? Here&amp;apos;s How to Fix It\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C26rIk-zCFg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Pickleball Daily flags the tennis long backswing as a common convert mistake on drives. The pickleball sits lower and arrives faster, so a big take-back leaves you late under a dying bounce and dumps the ball into the net or long.<\/p>\n<p>Keep the backswing compact: drop the paddle roughly even with your back foot, relax the grip, let the head sit below the ball, and hit through contact instead of brushing a huge loop. Same idea as a compact dink \u2014 less wind-up, more through the ball.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Long tennis take-backs are late on low pickleball bounces<\/li>\n<li>Bring the paddle only back to the back foot<\/li>\n<li>Relaxed grip, paddle head low, swing through<\/li>\n<li>Compact stroke beats a big brush<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Hit 20 baseline drives with a partner calling &#8216;stop&#8217; if the paddle passes the back foot<\/li>\n<li>Film a side view and compare tennis vs compact take-back length<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"tdd-newsletter\">\n<p><strong>Get the 5 best pickleball tips every week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/subscribe-forms.beehiiv.com\/v3\/loader.js\" data-beehiiv-form=\"0e5f3fe0-e4d3-4036-8d7f-c33b311980b2\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.beehiiv.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe free<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pickleball Daily flags the tennis long backswing as a common convert mistake on drives. The pickleball sits lower and arrives faster, so a big take-back leaves you late under a dying bounce and dumps the ball into the net or long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,562,381],"tags":[847,994,249,993],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drives","category-fundamentals","category-technique","tag-compact-backswing","tag-drive-technique","tag-pickleball-daily","tag-tennis-conversion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}