Serving -
When you are standing with both of your feet just behind the baseline, you are going to want to take up a sideways type of stance. You should be keeping the left foot pointing in the direction of the net post on the right hand side. The left hand should be holding the ball. You will want to raise your left hand into an upright position, releasing the ball just above your head. A good height that you may want to be throwing the ball is approximately 18 inches beyond your typical reach ability. You should make sure that you are not releasing the ball too quickly; otherwise it is going to fly out at an angle in the direction of the net, which is going to force you to learn in a forward direction in order to hit it. Ideally what you should be doing is throwing the ball approximately 1 foot before the left foot.
While the ball is in the air, you are going to want to bring the tennis racquet back and then up in the direction of the ball. You should be prepared to hit the ball when the arm is stretched back, keeping your racquet arm completely straight at the highest point that you can possibly reach. Switch the weight of the body away from the back foot toward the front foot to put more strength into the shot that you are making. You should be hitting the ball with an up and over type of action because you want the ball to go over the net and bounce into the other player's court.
Play -
Once the serve has been successfully hit, the play should continue with a number of different hits and shots. The most common type of shot that you are going to play is one that is known as the ground stroke. This is the name that is given to a tennis shot that is taken once the ball has been able to bounce once. These types of shots can be broken down into forehand shots, which are made using the face of the racket with your hand's palm facing the direction of the ball and the backhand, which is a shot that is made using the reverse side of your racquet with your hand's palm facing away from the direction of the ball. Hitting these types of shots in a successful manner is going to depend a lot on how you choose to grip your racquet. There are two distinctive ways that you can grip the racquet when making shots in tennis, the forehand as well as the backhand, meaning that you want to learn the right grip for each method of striking the ball, which is what we will talk about in the next article.
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Originally posted 2009-11-18 03:51:54. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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