The below scans are out of a tennis instructional book written by Dick Gould, the longtime Stanford Head Tennis coach is widely recognized as the greatest college coach of all-time.  This is a quick overview of the responsibilities at each position on the doubles court and Gould's basic ideas for strategies related to each of the four positions that everyone in a doubles match will have to play.  The tactics Gould describes above are quite universal tactics no matter if your just starting or advanced.  That said you can skip anything under the intermediate & advanced header.  You also don't have to remember everything on your first read, wherein this is something that you can and should take a few things away from now,  and as the season progresses you'll reference back to this piece and I know that then other points and tips you will read below, will have a different context and be more meaningful, as your doubles match-play and learning evolves during the course of a season.

On, or closer to this Thursday, i'll ask coach for a few minutes to give a little bit of clarify to the whole team on a point and a few terms, which Gould wrote below.  If you get a chance cut and paste my other blog address below, which has a ton of short (all are no more than a min each) instructional videos on doubles and singles strategies, mental tips and its got some classic tennis pictures.  These pictures run from art(paintings), design (unique settings for tennis courts) to famous tennis players from the 30s - 60s.  Lastly it has a little bit of color, lightness and humor, as I have tired of reading to many vanilla tennis instructional sites and blogs, and maybe you know something of the like.   paulvitennis.blogspot.com

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This simple doubles tactic, which I have described a few times. is priceless. The piece below lends support to the doubles tactic just described above 

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Forehands techniques supported in two different instructional guides, by two of the all-time great teachers of the sport, John Yandell and Tom Stow/  Both can be used to a very high degree of success on the tennis court.  The video  is of the Stow forehand technique, described there by a teaching pro, wherein I wish I had a video of Yandell's forehand to post here too.