Third Shot Drop Model

 Zane Navratil, in one of his YouTube videos, describes the third shot drop as a dink.  This makes sense as you are trying to drop the ball in the kitchen like any other dink.

What he adds to this is that the swing motion is identical regardless of how far you are back from the kitchen line.  The way Zane suggests you moderate the length of the shot is by the follow through length.  A dink follow through will leave your paddle in the ready position.  But a dink/third from the baseline might require a follow through wherein the paddle ends up head high.

I was using this today and found it worked quite well.  So give that a try if your third shot drops are not what you want.

Here is the link to Zane's video: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIkAK3Ch1WY