Survey of your neutral (waiting) grip and grip changes

[fastdunn]

I would like to create a thread to survey players' neutral (waiting) grip
and how they change grips. Please share your secret(?) and post
followings:

Neutral (waiting) Grip -
in serve return: eastern FH
in baseline rally: eastern FH
at the net: continental

How you change your grips -
in serve return: switch to continental or eastern BH grip if serve
comes to backhand side. I just feel more natural to change FH --> BH
rather than BH --> FH grip change.
in baseline rally: same as serve return
at the net: do not consciously change grip

Mine is pretty standard, I guess. Actually I'm not sure if my grip change
is standard or not.... That's why I need a survey...

Thanks for your help.

 

[Solat]

ROS - 1st : slightly toward EBH, 2nd : same as 1st if i am going to play a std point, SWFH if i am going to run around and hit a FH, conti if i am going to chip n charge.

Baseline - SWFH i think, i play slice backhands(conti) if i am pressured on the BH otherwise its a half turn from SWFH to EBH

Volley - Conti but racquet held slightly toward BH to cover body shots

 

[drakulie]

Neutral Grip -
In serve return: eastern Backhand- because most people try to serve to my backhand.

In baseline rally: eastern FH

At the net: continental

How you change your grips -

In serve return: switch to Eastern forehand if serve comes to forehand side.

In baseline rally: Hold it with eastern forehand.

At the net: Continental

When I am serving I serve with a continental, and then switch according to where the ball is returned.

 

[tennis_hand]

For me, everywhere it is continental. easier rotation of racket to both Eastern backhand and eastern forehand or SW forehand, dependent on the shot i wanna make.

 

[snoflewis]

im right handed

neutral/service return: right hand semiwestern, left hand semiwestern on opposite sides. i hit a SW forehand and a 2hbh w/ left hand on semi and right hand on continental

to hit a forehand, i just let go of my left hand. for a backhand, i just switch my right hand to continental....i found it to be most efficient.

volleys/slices: right hand continental

 

[Bottle Rocket]

It depends on who I am playing.

If I am returning serve and it is a big server who usually serves flat, I go continental. I plan on blocking them back to get the ball in play. This grip is good for backhand and forehand "blocks". On another note, blocking these serves back deep frustrates the hell out of those guys...

If the server hits serves with spin, I always wait with a semi-western forehand grip. That way I can hit clean shots both of my backhand and forehand, with the exact same grip. I rarely run into trouble with this, I love to hit high kicking serves right off the bounce.

In a rally, I am always holding Semi-western. I tend to go western and hit balls that land short when I get tight, but that's another issue!

 

[CaptainInsano]

That's an interesting thread. I have a lot of problems with grip changes lately. There's another thread that was created a while back for those interested: http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=88229&highlight=return+of+serve

Me Currently:
return of serve: waiting with SWFH. Switch to continental on BH (for slicing it back, make too many errors switching to EBH). So my backhand is weak but if I wait with EBH I'll have trouble switching to SWFH in time.

Rally: waiting with SWFH also. Have more time to swtich proper grips.

Volley: continental. no need to switch grips here

For switching grips, I currently go counter clock wise:
SWFH -> EFH -> Continental -> EBH.
But I'm practicing the other way (keep the same racquet face):
SWFH -> Western -> SWBH -> EBH

Though this switch is not natural to me... I'm thinking too much when I do it and make too many errors.

 

[righty]

On ROS: Eastern forehand, unless the server is constantly gaining the upperhand by serving hard or wide to my backhand, in which case, I'll wait with a Eastern Backhand.

At net: Continental

Baseline rallies: Eastern forehand

 

[alan-n]

Overtime my choice of grips have evolved to my playing style. When I mostly baselined I kept my grip on eastern backhand. Now I don't really care much for running at the back of the court as much, always looking to attack any ball to finish it off at the net. Continental grip = neutral and baseline grip now.

 

[slice bh compliment]

Continental in the ready position for returns.
I do not know what I do between groundstrokes -- it varies.

It is not a big switch for me to either side (mild eastern for the backhand topspin and a true eastern for the forehand.

Continental for everything else, obviously (serves, volleys, slices, overheads, dropshots).

I do remember Lendl waiting with a BH grip. I like that, but only on returns.

 

[Punisha]

ROS - Varies...

FH-WESTERN
BH-EASTERN
Slice-SEMI WESTERN

In Points - Western FH grip... if a backhand comes along i just move a quarter grip i am there

net continental

 

[krprunitennis2]

Neutral (waiting) Grip - Western Forehand
in serve return: against strong serves, continental. against weak, western fh
in baseline rally: Western Forehand
at the net: continental

How you change your grips -
in serve return: against first serves, continental. 2nd serves, always western
comes to backhand side: no changes, I just have my western forehand grip, and I hit my 2H backhand with no grip changes
in baseline rally: never change grips
at the net: I always use continental for all volleys except for the swinging volley

 

[fastdunn]

in serve return: against first serves, continental.

How do you change it to western grip when serve come in a hurry
to your forehand side (while you're waiting on continental grip)?

 

[fastdunn]

Overtime my choice of grips have evolved to my playing style. When I mostly baselined I kept my grip on eastern backhand. Now I don't really care much for running at the back of the court as much, always looking to attack any ball to finish it off at the net. Continental grip = neutral and baseline grip now.

do you chip service return a lot?

 

[TENNIS_99]

Neutral (waiting) Grip -
in serve return: semi-western FH
in baseline rally: semi-western FH
at the net: eastern BH

change grips -
in serve return: switch to eastern BH grip if serve comes to backhand side.
in baseline rally: 2hbh
backhabd slice/forehand slice - eastern BH
at the net: do not change grip
low ball - between continental/eastern BH
offensive backhand lob - extreme eastern BH