Understanding Tennis

on the backhand have the hit point in front of the body and square the racquet head up

you want to hit the ball in front of your body and square the racquet up on the hit point

many players spin the racquet to stay loose on the serve return preparation–some like Struff do it on the serve preparation– Struff does it between

when the tossing arm comes down let it softly come down and on to the front part of your body– prevents rotating too soon– Dom

the tossing arm needs to fully extend and slight angle out to get the toss in front

many of the players are coached through the entire match– Hewitt-pictured — was coaching Bolt telling him besides the usual pep talks– to use bigger

We have been coming to IW for 34 years. Every year on court 1 the price has gone up boat loads. We finally gave up

yesterday Kyrios threw a match away– IW is a 1000– he quit his serve rhythm — he quit his serve motion– plus he busted a

one of the ways to pre set the loose wrist action on the serve is to place the racquet face to the sky

on your serve— you need to get your elbow up, the racquet’s bottom label to the sky with the hitting hand close to your ear

you need to grow a lockage of all the serve parts so you can focus entirely on the hit manipulation of the ball –see it

on the low incoming shot — your best response is to dig it out– slightly opening the face of the racquet driving a slice return–

on the run often your body will block your rotation — you still flow through with a big up but you follow through with the

on the wide serve you must angle in to cut off the angle run of the shot

regular slice shot– helps keep the return low– great against a serve and volleyer and on a faster court