{"id":1317,"date":"2026-11-06T11:43:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2026-11-06T11:43:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:43:04","slug":"double-bounce-rule-serving-team-must-let-the-return-bounce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Double-Bounce Rule: Serving Team Must Let the Return Bounce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"The #1 Rule Players Get WRONG in Pickleball\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xvsgGbIcP30?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>The Pickleball Daily flags the double-bounce (two-bounce) rule as the most common beginner violation, especially for tennis players used to serve-and-volley.<\/p>\n<p>After the serve bounces, the return must also bounce before the serving team can hit it. That keeps the serving team back and gives the returning team an early kitchen presence \u2014 so depth on serve and return matters more than early aggression.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Serve must bounce; return must bounce \u2014 then volleys are legal<\/li>\n<li>Tennis serve-and-volley habit causes the most early faults<\/li>\n<li>Returning team reaches the kitchen first \u2014 depth beats early net rush<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In practice points, announce \u201cbounce\u201d out loud on serve and return until the habit sticks<\/li>\n<li>Track faults for 2 games: count how many are double-bounce vs other errors<\/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>The Pickleball Daily flags the double-bounce (two-bounce) rule as the most common beginner violation, especially for tennis players used to serve-and-volley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731,"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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,200],"tags":[1368,1082,486,406,1259,1369],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serves","category-strategy","tag-double-bounce","tag-return","tag-rules","tag-serve","tag-the-pickleball-daily","tag-two-bounce-rule-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/04-overhead-at-the-net-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","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=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}