Hardest Shot to Hit?

[Jmu008]

We are not including crazy winner shots...just in general, if all shots were at the same speed, which would be the hardest shot to hit? (Overheads, volleys, swing volleys, half-volleys, drop shot fh, drop shot bh, baseline fh, baseline bh, serve, approach, ...)

I'm going with half-volleys.

 

[LeeD]

Half volleys are indeed tough, especially when you gotta put angle and depth.
But backhand overhead for a WINNER, using depth, not pace, is pretty up there.
First flat serve out wide.
Forehand into the court, they can all be hard at times.

 

[Blake0]

For some reason right now..its the backhand slice...I know im doing something wrong..but i just can't get my finger on it. It usually goes into the net. This used to be my best shot from my backhand side..i could aim it pretty well and skid it short or deep anywhere. I've lost it now..but hopefully i can get it back and better then before

 

[Rickson]

The toughest shot to return is a groundstroke that jams you when you're right at the baseline.

 

[LeeD]

Well that's easier than when you're at net and get jammed....

 

[Rickson]

How is it any easier? Jammed is jammed.

 

[LeeD]

It's easier because when you're jammed at the net, you give up a easy winner to your opponent.
When you're jammed at the baseline, and the other guy is also at HIS baseline, you can call your "jam" a dropshot or angle, and get away with it.

 

[Bagumbawalla]

The ones you practice the least.

 

[klementine]

For me it's those high balls (above my elbow) on my backhand side.

 

[oneguy21]

2nd serve down match point.

 

[whoopinstick]

It would have to be a hitting a tweener off of a lob, or hitting a deep shot when your back is thouching the fence.

 

[Rickson]

Yes, that's a tough one. The tweener is the toughest shot in tennis.

 

[split-step]

Do you mean shot which poses the greatest level of difficulty/skill to hit properly? (When given an optimum ball)

If so I would say the twist serve.

 

[woodrow1029]

Backhand Overhead is never easy.

 

[Golden Retriever]

Any shot on the dead run.

 

[halalula1234]

return of serve.

 

[Frank Silbermann]

One handed topspin backhand half-volley hit on the run.

 

[AJD Tennis]

The overhead smash shoudn't be underestimated

 

[breadstick]

High backhands. I never make them...

 

[Thirteen]

topspin smash lob standing next to the linesman.

 

[scraps234]

half volleys

 

[Mahboob Khan]

If I am playing Nadal, his lefty hook forehand that is short and angular to my BH this after he had stretched me wide to my FH, is tough to return down the line, and I think that's Federer's problem too!

We are here in Cairo/Egypt where my daughter is playing ITF Women Futures. At the venue of the F1 Golf Solaimaneyah resort (Feb 27-March 1) the winds were gusting at speed more than 100 km, and it was very cold. I was practicing with my daughter and hitting against the wind. I hit a powerful forehand that crossed the net by several feet and crossed the T on the other side, but the ball returned unbounced to me and landed on my side. Thus, my second take is hitting a ball against the storm!

 

[downdaline]

The half-volley net-cord dropshot that bounces back over onto your side.

 

[Rickson]

That's a fun shot to do, but the problem is that it has to bounce high in order to get back over the net which makes it not a true dropshot. I've done it by accident on 3 occasions I can remember and I was able to return one of them just as it was going back to my opponent's side. My opponent was very close to saying something about the reach over judging from his reaction, but he realized that his shot had already bounced on my side.

 

[mucat]

I have to say it would be the BH overhead swing-half-volley drop shot approach from the baseline.

 

[snvplayer]

For me, running topspin backhand.

 

[TheGreatestAudia]

First warmup flat serve.

 

[kimbahpnam]

the toughest shot for me is the one i can't hit because i dropped my racquet

 

[Jaewonnie]

We are not including crazy winner shots...just in general, if all shots were at the same speed, which would be the hardest shot to hit? (Overheads, volleys, swing volleys, half-volleys, drop shot fh, drop shot bh, baseline fh, baseline bh, serve, approach, ...)

I'm going with half-volleys.

Flying Overheads.

 

[BullDogTennis]

backhand dropshot on the run. (doing it on purpose, not a miss hit slice)

 

[Djokovicfan4life]

Mishit drop shot overheads. I have the impeccable timing to make them work though, as does Albino Smurf.

 

[Jay_The_Nomad]

hardest shot in the book: Backhand overhead smash... without any doubt.


Hardestshot for me personally:

1) having to return a knifing/penetrating slice while on the run.

2) Shoe-lace volleys

oh and of course the backhand overhead smash for sure, but I hardly ever use that shot anyway.

 

[Jay_The_Nomad]

^^ Tips for the above would be appreciated

 

[Rickson]

I love the high backhand volley. I think a lot of players have trouble with that shot because they got so used to slicing their bh volleys which thankfully is a habit I've never developed.

 

[psYcon]

Hitting a Topspin forehand volley instead of an overhead. If you're on fire there's a high likelihood that shot will go in otherwise probably net or over the fence

 

[featherlight]

high backhands

 

[Ambivalent]

Volleys

because i never practice them

 

[Hot Sauce]

For me it's definitely the high ball to the backhand. I'm struggling with my backhand right now because I'm trying to fix it.\

 

[dataseviltwin]

lob volley (for what normal humans hit). Overhead drop-shot (we've got a 4.5 here that pulls it off regularly... that boy ain't raght...).

 

[lawrence]

returning a high ball with a topspin backhand down the line
i usually just end up slicing it to be safe

 

[Joey]

Any shot on the dead run.

Especially the one handed backhand

 

[Jackie T. Stephens]

Match point for your opponent and your down 40-luv