{"id":1075,"date":"2026-10-17T01:33:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T01:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2026-10-17T01:33:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T01:33:01","slug":"kitchen-control-three-spaces-tier-list-ones-twos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1075","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen Control: Three Spaces, Tier List, Ones &#038; Twos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"Control the Kitchen and Move Your Opponents Around\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uDJ6PXwoWio?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><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Jordan Briones teaches a kitchen framework: dinks set up attackable balls \u2014 keep them low and move opponents before speeding into strong counters. Use the three spaces (sideline gaps + middle between players); highest-percentage targets are usually cross-court and the moving middle, not the tight down-the-line gap.<\/p>\n<p>Dinking tier list: volley first (take time away), apex second, short-hop third. Ones-and-twos: when balanced, the &#8220;one&#8221; is the cross-court corner dink to pull them wide; the &#8220;two&#8221; attacks the middle once they&#8217;re stretched. Slide with your partner to cover middle vs line.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Dink to set up \u2014 don&#8217;t speed into elite counters early<\/li>\n<li>Prefer cross-court + moving middle over skinny down-the-line<\/li>\n<li>Tier: volley dink \u2192 apex \u2192 short-hop; ones = corner, twos = middle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Play one game using only cross-court and middle dink targets<\/li>\n<li>Call &#8220;one&#8221; or &#8220;two&#8221; before each attackable ball<\/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>Jordan Briones teaches a kitchen framework: dinks set up attackable balls \u2014 keep them low and move opponents before speeding into strong counters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730,"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":[220,2,3,200],"tags":[123,1109,1110,423,1108],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinks","category-footwork","category-kitchen","category-strategy","tag-briones","tag-dink-tier-list","tag-jordan-briones","tag-kitchen-strategy","tag-ones-and-twos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075","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=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}