forehand

This is just my personal inclination but when I use a SW or anything further I end up ripping as much spin on every ball as I can and just hope it lands in because I find that it's hard to get a good feel of the ball with SW or anything more extreme. With an EE I have more control over pace...

A lot has been posted about 'where the power comes from.....' for tennis strokes. When the chest is seen rotating, and the hitting arm moves for the: 1) Forehand 2) Serve 3) One Hand Backhand 4) Two Hand Backhand 5) Other? 6) Other? consider Thoracic Rotation See demo at end. Note that the...

Whenever I try to hit inside in, my strings are facing anywhere in between the center and the right corner of the court even as I'm shifting my bodyweight to the left corner (I'm left handed). For what it's worth my bottom hand is in a strong SW and my top hand is around continental. Any advice...

His SW grip is causing him to flex his wrist instead of fully pronating it or "rolling it over" as you can see in the video below. Switching to eastern might relieve that.

Fed has the better FH all-around but when stretched out wide on the run, does Pete hit a better FH due to a later contact point? :unsure:

Hello, former high school player getting back into tennis, was wondering if anyone here could help look at my serve/forehand. Things are slowly coming back to me (general timing, backhand, and volleys) but I am feeling pretty disconnected from my forehand. Depth is a bit hard to control, and I...

I went through all Fonseca's ATP matches of 2025. The pace and power he can generate off his forehand is second to none. It's a consistent shot but not as consistent as Sinner's and obviously his movement isn't good enough in some cases to be able to hit the forehand the way he wants to. But as...

I shadow swing perfectly with my forehand and always think I have good technique, yet when I play matches or practice i tend to overuse my wrist right before contact. a video link is provided as to what i'm referring to. idk if it has to do with my weight transfer or what so please tell me if...

This is a recent publication. It's an interesting read, pretty consistent with my personal experience. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40566465/

Deep running forehand. How do you decide which defensive shot to hit? The main options I see: 1. Topspin lob - advantages - plenty of time to recover. May result in a winner if the opponent is too close to the net. Disadvantages - difficult to execute well. Short return will be put away easily...

Hey, guys and gals! I need some tips on how to make my forehand better. Sometimes its really inconsistent and other days its pretty good. Really depends on opponents as well...I am self taught and my primary training tool is the wall as well as playing others 2-3 times a week. I can see my swing...

When I hit an inside-out forehand, it feels much smoother the wrist naturally lays back and the whole motion feels more effortless. But when I try to hit from other positions (like crosscourt or down the line), that same feel and wrist position don’t happen as easily. How can I replicate...

A great article by Jeff Sackmann, which underlines aspects of the qualities the Brazilian has shown so far: Power is power and we are living in a different world compared to two decades ago: Fonseca's win percentage increases also strongly with the length of the rallies, which is in my book...

Great post over at Heavy Topspin, with numbers to back it up. Very difficult to see a markedly higher frequency of net play in the future, unless we see specific technology and surface changes, imho at least: Sinner seems to be the new prototype of this trend, after Nadal and Djokovic led the...

Are you using Carlos Alcaraz's forehand technique to play? What is your feeling?

About a year ago, I tried to learn from the Ricc Macci "ATP-forehand", keeping the backswing compact. After a few months I noticed that I had lost some power in my shots, and my coach was saying regularly that I swing too close to my body. After filming my forehands for the first time in half...

I'm flat hitter with dense pattern racquet but looking for adding more topspin. Fundamental and must mechanism should be swing from under ball to upright through path. Question is, do you maintain racquet face vertical, or close racquet angle to get more topspin?

Hi Friends, I am working on my groundstroke techniques, and due to limited coaching availability in my town, I seek advices through online coaching. He mentioned the following: 1. My hip and shoulder were not turned completely when I make contact with the ball, which meant my body was working...

I have developed the kind of forehand take back a lot of WTA players have where the racquet goes behind my body. My coach recommended me to shorten the take back to create more lag, which I got confused...shouldn't the longer swing create more lag? I can try to work on it but I hope it's a...

Quite an obvious one, if you want you can add other candidates! Here we have a graph of the most recent - and slowest - clay 1000 tournaments:

Just found a neat graphic of Tennis Insights which places most of the top players of 2023 in relation to the tour. Keep in mind the sample bias, more so for guys blasting away with little margin. The relative positions of the elite is usually much better supported. If they read the data at the...

So I like this coach's energy and enthusiasm especially since they're hitting on a wall. However, I 'm not sure I follow his ideas on weight transfer/kinetic chain. Is he recommending keeping your hitting leg loaded 90% and keeping the weight there? I understand he's talking about a neutral...

Hi All - Long time reader of this forum. This community has helped me improve my tennis a lot over the last couple of months. I have finally gotten to a point where I'd thought that it would be great to upload some videos of my (as of late) struggling forehand, mainly having some issues with...

Can Lorenzo Sonego Hunt Down Enough Forehands? by Jeff Sackmann tackles this new stat presented during the 2024 Australian Open by looking at the Italian. So unsurprisingly most players try to follow up the serve with their stronger stroke which is almost always the forehand. What is the...

I was watching some clips of Federer at the 2004 us open and noticed his forehand looked similar to Djokovic’s. Obviously the grips are different for each as Novak uses a strong semi-western and Fed an eastern/strong eastern, but their backswings were pretty similar once you account for the grip...

I've been playing tennis for quite sometime now (10+ years as a junior, and been consistently playing for the past 3 years now at 28 yo). And I just discovered the following: At almost 100% of my forehand shots, I hit the ball in a contact point where my hand is tilted like this, creating an...