Keeping racquet head up on 2bh takeback

ChimpChimp

Semi-Pro
My 2bh takeback in the most natural way is to point the racquet head to side fence (9 o'clock), which gives racquet head little travel distance on the strike, so I'm changing to the Djokovic racquet head up style. The first ball in my video was a high ball and was hit while consciously thinking about racquet head up. The takeback still can be seen with traces of wanting to point to 10 o'clock. The second ball was low and on low balls on both bh and fh I always switch to 9 or 3 o'clock takeback then wait for the ball to come from 9 or 3.

How to do racquet head up? Straighter dominant arm and bent non-dominant arm more?


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You need to take the racket back with the body/shoulders rather than the arms.

If you watch Djokovic here the hands stay in the centre of his chest almost throughout the entire take back and even the forward swing.


So keep your hands in the centre of your chest, by your waist, with the racket head above the hands and just turn the shoulders to take it back and turn the shoulders again to swing forwards.
 
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