How to Optimize Your Rotation (And Win More Close Sets)

So, um, let's talk about this idea of rotation.

So what is side-out percentage, and what is break-point percentage? Well, side-out is the amount, the percentage of times you score when you are receiving the ball, so not when you're serving.

So every time the, your opponent s- uh, serves, what is the percentage of time you are scoring when they're serving? And break-point percentage is the amount of times or the percentage of times you are scoring when you are serving, okay? So you got that? So side-out is when we're receiving.

Break-point is when you're serving.

And if you have a very high side-out percentage, well, you increase the chances of you to win.

If your break-point percentage is great, you im-improve the opportunity for you to score and win the game as well.

Now, uh, I'll tell-- One thing.

When I was working with the national team this summer, they-- I don't know where they got this research from, but they said if you have a 33% break-point percentage, you typically win the match.

And I don't know where this research came from, but that's what, uh, I learned to the national team.

So what does that mean? Well, that changed their serving philosophy because if you're break-pointing at 33%, that means that if you ace one out of three, you win the game.

So now their serving philosophy changed significantly because they c- they have three attempts to go for their serve at the highest level.

When you're serving over 100 kilometers an hour, you're gonna go-- And you can-- In theory, you should be able to make one for three.

Well, guess what? You're going for it now because you make one for three, you win the game.

Now, I would not use this number at the, at the U-- at like 12 U and 13 U because at the h- at the older level, well, they can re- they can receive and score, you know? They have the ability to.

If you're still acquiring the skill to pass and you're still acquiring the skill to serve and you can't make one serve or let's say for example, you, you're one for three, but your one that goes over is a lollipop, then that, then that number does not make sense.

You can't apply it to that, to that, uh, stat because one for three suggests that your serve is a threat.

And if you land that one for three serve, it's gonna be an ace, or at the very least you take them out of system and get a free ball back and score.

So you have to convert.

So it's not just one for three, you have to convert on the one for three.

All right, so yeah.

So break point percentage is, is something to factor in as well as, um, you know, your, your side out percentage.