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The point I was trying to make was that if the grips feel wrong, which they will if your body position and contact point are built around another grip, then just changing the grip and practicing will feel weird and awkward. Of course once you have the basic idea of how to correctly implement...

For the volleys, think about catching the ball as if the racquet was a net. That will help with the grip as well as keeping the racquet face open. For the both the volleys and the serve, to make the continental grip work you have to have your body in a fundamentally different position than...

You won games off a guy who was ranked in the top 1000, who was still playing well and trying. That's mighty impressive. Be happy.

Taking your numbers, I'd add to this by: A tennis ball is 2.575 in in diameter. Times pi for the circumference, times 0.2 for the linear distance the ball moves at its circumference, divided by the 0.005 s time that motion happens as I get 324 in/s or 27 ft/s. That gives you an idea of the...

Forward (or back) racquet tilt does have an affect on spin, but as a player you should not think of tilt as a spin generator. The main thing about the tilt of the racquet is it affects the height over the net. Tilt the racquet more forward for lower, more back for higher. There is one...

What's a forward swing followed by an upward brush? Given that the ball is in contact with the racquet for around 5 ms, that sounds like a forward swing. The problem with that explanation is that it doesn't explain the 2500 rpm spin rate that Federer regularly puts on the ball. Also, how does...

That take back and set-up looked so sweet. It was great right up to the point where you bent your elbow. Look at the picture of Thiem that Chas Tennis posted - gotta keep that arm straight. One sentence tip - pretend you're pulling a sword from its sheath.

The big thing on the shoulders is that when you use a cont grip instead of a fh grip, the position of your shoulders and how they rotate needs to change to make it all work. With that fh grip your right shoulder naturally rotates pretty far forward, like you're throwing a ball. You also get a...

College athletes with no symptoms have had myocarditis from Covid. Just because you're 20, in good shape, and have had no symptoms doesn't mean you're OK. You don't want to screw up your heart and then have to deal with it for the rest of your life just because you wanted to get back to...

If you've had Covid, DO NOT EXERCISE until your doctor clears you of having any Covid related cardiac inflammation. Look it up. Covid can create a condition called myocarditis, which is an inflammation of the heart muscle. It's been seen in a large percentage of Covid cases, 25% to 50% in two...

But in this scenario, OP would have to change direction from x-court to down the line on their bh off a hard, low ball, and not offer up a sitter to Mr. Flatty's fh. That sounds difficult and low percentage to me unless you have really good control off that wing, use his power, and can keep the...

In my experience a short ball to the bh, especially a 2hbh, can force a player to come in to hit a lower, weaker ball. There are players that don't like this ball and will not attack on it, but rather just try hit it back as a rally ball and wait for something else, like maybe a fh, to attack...

I haven't read through all of the responses, but FWIW I don't think trying to get better at a shot that you don't want to hit (lifting a hard low flat ball when it's hit at your two handed backhand side) is the key here. I think you essentially nailed it when you said that you're giving him a...

Timing is the first to go and the last to come back for me, and returns and volleys are very timing dependent.

Yah, this is me. I call it the "zen-ness of the hit." Ripping balls, good pace and spin, working on that effortless form. When you can string together a high quality, 20 shot rally like that, it's such a high. Guys like Green Shirt Guy eat me for lunch. I stopped caring years ago - it's just...

Watching that first match made want to kill myself. I felt all the joy literally being sucked out of my being leaving only a black emptiness. Great job Green Shirt Guy, but I can't watch anymore though because I have too much to live for.

Do what's fun. If you want to try a 1hbh, then do it. Find a coach who can teach it. I'd also say do it now while you're learning. The 1hbh is a harder stroke to learn for most people. Even if you switch to a 2hbh later on, it's good to have had the experience with the 1hbh.

AnyPUG, listen to 5263. He's right.

FWIW, that's about the grips I use. My dom R hand index knuckle is just barely on the 1 bevel. Non-dom L hand is pretty solidly SW. I like this combo because I can decent topspin on my backhand. I can still hit more through it if I want to. Only play hard courts. FH is just SW.

Get out of the effing way of you can't handle the potential body shot. Why is this so hard for people to understand? You have zero right to stand up at the net blocking the easiest shot and expecting your opponent to hit around you. And I've never seen a sitter so short that I couldn't step...

5263, we need the link, but as I know you know one cannot hit around the ball. Contact time is like 5 ms. An inside out swing helps lay the racquet back during the initial part of the forward swing and puts the arm in a good position to come back across the body causing the the lag to release...

Can be. I played a guy who had very accurate, well place passing shots. He didn't swing hard though; he used your pace against you. Started approaching up the middle with a slow, deep ball and forced him to generate the pace and the angles. I got to enough volleys to win.

Fundamentally you are going to have to increase the amount you swing up (more technically increase the component of the swing that is perpendicular the ball's incoming path). If you want a small increase then work on swinging more up with your current stroke. If you want a large increase...

FWIW... Your fh looks great. In a cooperative rally, if they're complaining about your spin then you need to find better people to hit with. Generally the same in mini tennis, though there was one guy I used to hit with who would take a high speed swing at the ball, just all up. The ball was...

Sorry to be so dense, but I'm just not understanding what you're saying about the various angle you're calculating. Apologies for all of the misunderstandings. But seriously, swing the edge of the racquet across the ball's path, trying to match the swing path with the racquet's angle. Use...

The swing path of 45° and racquet face at 90° - yes, this clearly works. Ball will have ts and come off the racquet at some angle up relative to the ground. would present the stringbed at 45° - 45° open? I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but if you swung at the ball straight with a 45° open...

If I understand you, that swing path angle and racquet face angle directly tradeoff , then respectfully I disagree. They are related and influence each other, but they don't just trade off with each other. Let me know if I missunderstood you.

2) was my original assumption. This drives the ball into ground unless the ball is sharply on the rise, and in this case would have some backspin.

@BlueB, you're right. Apologies to @JimJones. If I may paraphrase, JimJones sad saying to swing the racquet with both the racquet angled at 45 degrees AND with a 45 degree path. Yes, that will put topspin on the ball and not just drive it into the ground. I will say that even with the swing path...