Analyze your opponents during your warm-up

The warm-up serves not only to prepare your body for the upcoming padel match, but also for other purposes, such as analyzing your opponents.

It’s good that you use your warm-up to focus on yourself and the match you are going to play, but analyzing your opponents during the first rounds can give you clues about your opponents’ weaknesses and strengths that you can then take advantage of in the match.

We could say that the key to winning a match is warming up, and studying the movements of the opponents can help you and your partner to plan a strategy you will use in the match to achieve victory.

You probably have doubts now about what aspects you need to analyze in your opponents to be able to take advantage of them in the match.

Analyzing the opponent should become a habit before the match, it is about analyzing the opponent’s technique and tactics, so talk to your partner to put it into practice as soon as possible.

What aspects should we analyze in our opponents?

1. Are they right-handed or left-handed?
2. Do they use spin or flat strokes or not?
3. What is their physical condition?
4. Do they move fluidly around the court?
5. Where do they seem to feel more comfortable, net or back line?
6. What is their relationship with the walls?
7. Do you see any weak or strong points in their game?
8. Do they have a right posture or position on the court?
9. Do you see them doing something wrong?
10. Do they communicate with their partner?
11. Do they use the same stroke too often?
12. …

These and other questions you should ask yourself in order to properly analyze your opponents and develop the right strategy for the game.