How to tell if you're hitting topspin?

[tennis_hack]

Both a topspin shot and a flat (no-spin) lob will bounce high. However, one will bounce high because of spin, and one will bounce high just because it had a big distance to fall from.

Hitting topspin your racket face should be closed - but it's hard to exactly know if your racket face is closed at contact without filming yourself in slow-motion HD and replaying it.

So the way to know that you're hitting topspin and not merely spinlessly lobbing is if your shot skims the net by an inch or so, yet bounces 8ft high in the air when it lands - it's heavy topspin. If it clears the net by 16ft, and bounces 8ft high, you dinked a lob.

With really heavy topspin, your shot can barely skim over the net, yet bounce way over someone's head when it bounces.

 

[newpball]

So the way to know that you're hitting topspin and not merely spinlessly lobbing is if your shot skims the net by an inch or so, yet bounces 8ft high in the air when it lands - it's heavy topspin. If it clears the net by 16ft, and bounces 8ft high, you dinked a lob.

With really heavy topspin, your shot can barely skim over the net, yet bounce way over someone's head when it bounces.

Looks like you are offering free lessons. :twisted:

 

[Avles]

With really heavy topspin, your shot can barely skim over the net, yet bounce way over someone's head when it bounces.

You're right, it can... if that someone is a dwarf.

 

[Bud]

Both a topspin shot and a flat (no-spin) lob will bounce high. However, one will bounce high because of spin, and one will bounce high just because it had a big distance to fall from.

Hitting topspin your racket face should be closed - but it's hard to exactly know if your racket face is closed at contact without filming yourself in slow-motion HD and replaying it.

So the way to know that you're hitting topspin and not merely spinlessly lobbing is if your shot skims the net by an inch or so, yet bounces 8ft high in the air when it lands - it's heavy topspin. If it clears the net by 16ft, and bounces 8ft high, you dinked a lob.

With really heavy topspin, your shot can barely skim over the net, yet bounce way over someone's head when it bounces.

You're right, it can... if that someone is a dwarf.

I have yet to see anything close to that except from a ball machine on its highest spin rate. Even then, the ball just moves quickly toward the fence after hitting the court - rather than bouncing high.

The deep topspin lobs are where it's at. They land deep, hit the court, bounce high and move quickly toward the fence - leaving little time to get to them before running out of court.

 

[Topspin Shot]

He's trolling. Ignore.

 

[tennis_balla]

tennis_hack, stop littering the boards with none sense. There's enough crap on here as it is.

 

[johnchung907]

Well, you can also tell by looking at the ball. If it's rotating forward it's topspin (then again I have younger eyes)

 

[JW10S]

With really heavy topspin, your shot can barely skim over the net, yet bounce way over someone's head when it bounces.

Uh, no. I competed internationally as a junior, was a member of an NCAA National Championship team, competed as a pro, played on almost every surface you can imagine, coached world class players, and have never seen that happen, ever.

It's very clear who the real players are here (not very many) and who the cyber tennis wannabes (everyone else) are.

 

[syke]

Both a topspin shot and a flat (no-spin) lob will bounce high. However, one will bounce high because of spin, and one will bounce high just because it had a big distance to fall from.

Hitting topspin your racket face should be closed - but it's hard to exactly know if your racket face is closed at contact without filming yourself in slow-motion HD and replaying it.

So the way to know that you're hitting topspin and not merely spinlessly lobbing is if your shot skims the net by an inch or so, yet bounces 8ft high in the air when it lands - it's heavy topspin. If it clears the net by 16ft, and bounces 8ft high, you dinked a lob.

With really heavy topspin, your shot can barely skim over the net, yet bounce way over someone's head when it bounces.

No, you do not hit topspin with your racquet face closed. It is just tilting forward by a few degrees.

You will know if you are hitting with topspin. The ball comes scrambling down to earth. It is rather obvious.

 

[Andres]

With really heavy topspin, your shot can barely skim over the net, yet bounce way over someone's head when it bounces.

Physics disagrees with you.

 

[TennisCJC]

To tell if I am hitting topspin, I have developed a special technique. I look at the ball to see if and how fast it is spinning.

 

[Ash_Smith]

With really heavy topspin, your shot can barely skim over the net, yet bounce way over someone's head when it bounces.

Physics called, he wants his ball back and says you're not allowed to play with it anymore.

 

[sureshs]

To tell if I am hitting topspin, I have developed a special technique. I look at the ball to see if and how fast it is spinning.

I have a portable Hawk Eye on my cell phone which calculates the rpm on every shot I hit.

 

[Bartelby]

Buy one of those two coloured balls and hit with it for a while and you can see the spin more easily.

 

[Egoista]

topspin how do you know?

how do you know if you are playing tennis?

If you know that then....you are on the right track.....

 

[hawk eye]

I love hitting topspin slice BH's. Tennis hack, you should try this, it's just amazing.

 

[Topspin Shot]

Egoista, sometimes you just know. Anyway, let's change the topic of this thread. I'll begin:

 

[DirtBaller4]

You can feel it

You can feel the difference between a flat shot "think baseball bat" and a heavy topspin shot, it just has a percentage of upward brush that you can feel. With the flat shot you just feel like the ball hit the racquet almost perpendicular to the racket and swing plane giving you that nice driving through the ball feeling.

Topspin will send the ball higher which will cause it to bounce a little higher, but it will only bouce as high as it started, the flat shot can be a real low bouncing shot if you get it real close to the net, which is great for targeting a weak wing.

It's Kind of like having a standard tranny in a car, after a while you know when to shift from the sound and feel of the car.

 

[SuperDuy]

You can tell right after you hit the shot if it has topspin or not.

 

[LeeD]

Me me, I can tell.
If I swing super fast, and the ball goes super slow, but I put in tons of effort, and the ball is poking along at less than freeway speeds, I"m hitting topspin.

 

[TomT]

Both a topspin shot and a flat (no-spin) lob will bounce high. However, one will bounce high because of spin, and one will bounce high just because it had a big distance to fall from.

Hitting topspin your racket face should be closed - but it's hard to exactly know if your racket face is closed at contact without filming yourself in slow-motion HD and replaying it.

So the way to know that you're hitting topspin and not merely spinlessly lobbing is if your shot skims the net by an inch or so, yet bounces 8ft high in the air when it lands - it's heavy topspin. If it clears the net by 16ft, and bounces 8ft high, you dinked a lob.

With really heavy topspin, your shot can barely skim over the net, yet bounce way over someone's head when it bounces.

Hmmm. Well, what other posters said.

I suppose I could take the time to explore all of the sensory indicators, but I don't really think that's necessary. You know when you're hitting topspin, underspin, or relatively flat. At least I do. It's intuitive. At least for me it is.

How can you tell if you're hitting topspin? Pay attention!

 

[tennis_hack]

OK, all shots that are not slice will have some tiny amount of topspin on them, but if you're hitting decently heavy topspin - that's where the ball skims the net by two inches, yet kicks 7ft high into the air when it bounces, right?

I haven't managed to do that yet, so I guess I'm not hitting much topspin...

 

[Timbo's hopeless slice]

so, you are trolling, right?

I just don't quite get the joke, that's all/

A good troll has just enough misguided credibility to elicit some nice, juicy responses.

this is just stupid..

 

[KineticChain]

so, you are trolling, right?

I just don't quite get the joke, that's all/

A good troll has just enough misguided credibility to elicit some nice, juicy responses.

this is just stupid..

 

[tennis_balla]

I get it, this is all possible but for the OP only as he is the kid with the spoon from the original Matrix movie.

 

[GoudX]

OP is probably trolling. Nonetheless flightpath of the ball will give it away, if it is falling too fast for gravity then it has topspin on it!

Also, topspin itself will actually reduce a balls bounce height, however as topspin shots go higher before the bounce, they will be higher after the bounce. Plus, topspin causes shots hit the court at a steeper angle, which increases bounce height.

This is why some topspin shots will jump over your shoulder, whilst slower topspin shots often skid low.

 

[dominikk1985]

tennis_hack, stop littering the boards with none sense. There's enough crap on here as it is.

yeah. If I want to troll I use the current Scene. This is for serious Tennis discussion.