What is the contact point in tennis?
One of them is contact point positions (where the ball hits the strings of the racket in relation to the body). More often than I care to remember I hear tennis coaches blurt out “hit the ball out in front”.
What is wrist lag in tennis?
When that happens, it means that the wrist has reached a very stable position and cannot move any more backwards – because of the way the arm and hand bones and tendons are structured. Once that happens, almost no more tension is required to keep the wrist and therefore the racket in place.
Why tennis serve is so difficult?
The Continental grip is a 90-degree change of the racquet-head orientation to the previous forehand grip. This changes everything! Now the strings point 90 degrees away from the target, and you can’t just twist your forearm to make the strings face the target. Even if you do, it feels very awkward and strains your arm.
What is the easiest serve in tennis?
Easy points: A well-placed flat serve is perfect for winning a point outright with an ace, or at the very minimum, forcing your opponent to block the ball back for an easy setup or putaway shot. Low bounce: as the name suggests, flat serves have minimal spin.
How to imagine a contact point on a tennis serve?
An easy way to check how the player imagines the contact on a tennis serve is to simulate the serve into a back fence. Slowly initiate your service motion from the beginning, and gently hit the fence and stop the racket there. In my experience, the most common mistakes in how tennis players imagine a contact point on the serve are:
When do you need to correct your serve in tennis?
When the serve technique is not correct, then the serve is often more a liability than an asset. In order to learn correct tennis serve technique, simple serving tips won’t get you there. Instead you need to follow step-by-step progressions that build the service motion from the ground up.
When to use pronation on a tennis serve?
Players who have no real angle between the wrist and the forearm at contact don’t really feel or use the pronation. So, in order to correct this part of a tennis serve, I recommend you engage in pronation drills rather than simply trying to correct this mechanically as you see in Federer’s example because it won’t really make sense to you.
How does contact point make your technique work?
As you hit your shots, feel and call out or make a mental note of where on the racquet you hit the ball.