 Welcome to One Minute Tennis Lessons with The Tennis Mentor. In this video, I'm going to tell you why you shouldn't be recovering to the centre of the court. There will be occasions where you can recover to the centre, but generally you don't want to, and here's why. When playing singles, your aim is to make things as tough as you can for your opponent, and pushing them into the corners of the court can be a good way to do that. If you push your opponent into this corner of the court, their two options are to hit a shot straight down the line, or they could hit the other half of the court hitting an ankle cross-court. Now, your job is to recover to the centre of those two furthest points, which would be slightly off-centre here. The only time you should recover to the middle is if you actually hit the shot straight down the centre of the court. Because if this is the case, your opponent's options to hit the corners are now limited to a more central channel, and the centre point is straight down the middle. So, the only time you should recover to the centre of the court is when you've hit down the centre of the court. Be sure to subscribe to see more.