{"id":167,"date":"2026-09-16T01:55:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T01:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:36:46","slug":"inside-the-mind-of-pro-mixed-doubles-ft-james-ignatowich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Mind of Pro Mixed Doubles ft. James Ignatowich"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"Inside the Mind of Pro Mixed Doubles ft. James Ignatowich\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YV1LG7XtQGg?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>Tanner walks through his own thinking during <a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=289\">mixed doubles points<\/a> with James Ignatowich (plus Mari Humberg and Ava Cavataio). It is framed as IQ development via situation-by-situation commentary rather than a single technique tip.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Action items:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watch one point, pause, predict Tanner&#8217;s next choice, then play<\/li>\n<li>Note recurring decision themes (poach, speed-up, reset)<\/li>\n<li>Apply one pattern in your next mixed session<\/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>Tanner walks through his own thinking during mixed doubles points with James Ignatowich (plus Mari&#8230;<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,200],"tags":[257,256,254,255,126],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-doubles","category-strategy","tag-decision-making","tag-james-ignatowich","tag-mixed-doubles","tag-pickleball-iq","tag-tanner-pickleball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","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=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/830"}],"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=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}