The Most and All Important Thing About Your Tennis Technique

 

Rafa Nadal, in his book said

“You might think that after the millions and millions of balls I’ve hit, I’d have the basic shots of tennis sown up, that reliably hitting a true, smooth, clean shot every time would be a piece of cake.

But it isn’t. Not just because every day you wake up feeling differently, but because every shot is different; every single one.

From the moment the ball is in motion, it comes at you at an infinitesimal number of angles and speeds; with more topspin, or backspin, or flatter, or higher”.

So we learn to hit the ideal shot – which can be defined as:

1. The incoming ball is approaching at ideal height, speed, spin, and distance so that the player is able to move his body in a very comfortable way. In other words, the body moves biomechanically optimally.

2. The outgoing ball hit by the player is hit fairly low above the net, with the average amount of topspin and with moderate speed.

You may have been taught that in order to hit the ball well you need to move your body parts (hips, shoulders, arms, hands, etc.) in the exact same way that the pros do – and do that on every single shot.

Impossible – and the video above explains..in written words, not spoken words exactly this point.

That the most important thing to remember is the “forward path of the racket”..watch The Fed…and also how he WATCHES the ball onto the racket, and KEEPS his head pretty still.

It is the technique of HOW the racket hits the ball and not the technique of the body parts.

So remember..watch the ball..always follow through(low to high) and let your body do what it wants to do in any given position on the court.