Is my grip too large?

[yzthomas]

My racquet slips a lot when I do power forehands. The grips is 4 1/2 with a Head Super Comp overgrip.

I do feel comfortable with the grip size and I measured my hand size: 4 5/8 inches from the tip of ring finger to the second crease in the palm, and when I hold the racquet using eastern grip, I can fit exactly one finger in the space between my ring finger and the palm of the hitting hand.

I don't have this problem with my other racquet, 4 3/8 with a Wilson Pro overgrip. The shape of grips of the two racquets are slightly different though. I swiched to this 4 1/2 racquet a couple of weeks ago, and now I start to have elbow pain, which never occurred before.

Is 4 1/2 the right size for me? Is the slip caused by wrong grip size or bad overgrip or anything else? Does the elbow problem have anything to do with racquet?

 

[Jay_The_Nomad]

Are u using an oveRgrip?

 

[Redflea]

Are u using an oveRgrip?

From his original post:

"The grips is 4 1/2 with a Head Super Comp overgrip."

 

[txt858]

what kind of racquet do you have? Different racquets have different butt caps. You can try this.... when I put on the overgrip, I would wrap the butt cap twice then go up the handle (make two turns on the butt cap). This essentially bulks up the butt cap and it'll help prevent slippage.