Söderling high thbh

[toth]

As i know it is adviced on higher incoming ball prepare higher on the twohanded backhand.
However as i see videos best pros with twohanded backhand do not prepare higher on these balls (neither Söderling nor Djokovic for example who have win over Nadal at the RG)

Thank you for your view on this point
Toth

 

[toth]

Even head high thbh and normal prep.
No higher prep

(Excuse me for a poor quality of the video)

 

[zill]

Even head high thbh and normal prep.
No higher prep

(Excuse me for a poor quality of the video)

Correct. Same prep and setup. Contrary to popular belief contact point on the 2hb is restricted to shoulder level or below which is the case for both of Soderling's bh.

 

[toth]

As i see the first video is about schoulder high, already a high thbh.
The second is about head high.

As i see Söderling use similar prep for waist high - in this thread there is no video for it - or schoulder high or even higher thbh.

(If you wish i make videos of Djokovic high thbh...)

 

[zill]

As i see the first video is about schoulder high, already a high thbh.
The second is about head high.

As i see Söderling use similar prep for waist high - in this thread there is no video for it - or schoulder high or even higher thbh.

(If you wish i make videos of Djokovic high thbh...)

Even head high thbh and normal prep.
No higher prep

(Excuse me for a poor quality of the video)

If you look closely Soderling waits for the ball to drop to his shoulder level before making contact with his racquet. So contact point is at shoulder level. And he had to jump up a little in order to make contact at that level.

 

[travlerajm]

As i know it is adviced on higher incoming ball prepare higher on the twohanded backhand.
However as i see videos best pros with twohanded backhand do not prepare higher on these balls (neither Söderling nor Djokovic for example who have win over Nadal at the RG)

Thank you for your view on this point
Toth

Preparing higher allows you to take advantage of extra potential energy, which gets converted to extra momentum in the racquet at contact by letting gravity accelerate the racquet downward as you start to swing forward.

But this “gravity assist” of a high backswing is much more useful on hardcourt, where you can begin your forward swing before the bounce.

On clay, where the bounce angle cannot be well-predicted pre-bounce, the best players don’t start to accelerate forward until after the bounce when hitting on the rise, otherwise they would have to adjust the swingpath mid stroke, which is nearly impossible.

If you watch Lleyton Hewitt, he always prepared with a high backswing, which made him better on hardcourt than on clay. Daniil Medvedev also preps with high backswing and is better on hardcourt than on clay.