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The grip, in tennis, is how the racquet is held in order to hit shots during a match. There are three primary grips, the Western, the Eastern, and the Continental. Some people recognize a fourth grip, the Semi-Western, which is midway between an Eastern and a true Western. Most players change grips during a match depending on what shot they are hitting. With the Continental, the grip remains the same, no matter what shot is being hit. For other uses, see Tennis (disambiguation). ...
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The forehand
There are various grips for executing the forehand and their popularity has changed over the years. The simplest grip to understand, but perhaps the most difficult to master, is the Continental. With the racquet held so that the hitting surface is vertical to the ground, the handle is gripped on its top as if the player were shaking someone's hand or grasping a hammer. With the Continental, both the forehand and the backhand are hit with the same grip. With the Eastern grip, the racquet is slightly rotated so that the palm of the hand is now somewhat more on the larger side of the handle. The Eastern grip will hit a "flatter" forehand with less spin on it than the Continental. With the Western grip, the rotation of the racquet in the player's hand is even more exaggerated, to the point where the striking surface of the racquet is now parallel to the ground after being turned from its initial vertical position. Western forehands are generally hit with enormous amounts of spin. For a number of years the small, apparently frail 1920s player Bill Johnston was considered by many to have had the best forehand of all time, a stroke that he hit shoulder-high using a Western grip. Few top players used the Western grip after the 1920s, but in the latter part of the 20th century, as shot-making techniques and equipment changed radically, the Western forehand made a strong comeback and is now used by many modern players. For information on the forehand of a horse, see forehand (horse) A forehand. ...
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Backhand The backhand can be executed with either one or both hands. For most of the 20th Century it was performed with one hand, using either an Eastern or Continental grip. The Continental grip for the backhand is the same as that used for the Continental forehand. For the Eastern backhand, the racquet is rotated slightly in the opposite direction from which it is rotated to form the grip of the Eastern forehand. In modern tennis, there are a few professional players who use a Western one-hand backhand. This shot is held in a similar manner to the Western forehand, and has more spin potential than the traditional Eastern one-hander. This shot is far easier to master as although it is difficult to hit low balls with this grip, it is virtually impossible to drive a high ball with topspin with an eastern grip without risk of serious injury.It is used by most pros with strong one handed backhand drives, like Gustavo Kuerten and Richard Gasquet among the men and Justine Henin among the women. Justine Henin has one of the best one-handed backhands in todays tennis The backhand in tennis is a stroke hit by swinging the racquet away from ones body in the direction of where the player wants the ball to go. ...
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Gustavo Kuerten (born September 10, 1976 in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina) is a former World No. ...
Richard Gasquet (born 18 June 1986) is a French tennis player. ...
Justine Henin; ( ) (born June 1, 1982 in Liège) is a Belgian professional tennis player from the Walloon (French-speaking) region of Belgium. ...
The two-handed backhand is most commonly used with the forehand hand holding the racquet with a Continental grip and the non-dominant hand holding the racquet with an Eastern forehand grip. While this is by far the most common way to hit a two-handed backhand, there are players who use different ways of holding the racquet for a two-handed backhand.
Whether the one-handed or the two-handed backhand is more effective than the other is debatable. The two handed backhand is easier to learn , while one hand gives more variety and can generate a slice shot, applying backspin on the ball to produce a low trajectory bounce, it also provides more reach and power, but is considered to be more difficult to learn without professional instruction. Mathematically the term trajectory refers to the ordered set of states which are assumed by a dynamical system over time (see e. ...
The player long considered to have had the best backhand of all time, Don Budge, had a very powerful one-handed stroke in the 1930s and '40s that imparted topspin onto the ball. Ken Rosewall, another player noted for his one-handed backhand, used a deadly accurate slice backhand with underspin through the 1950s and '60s. Both of them used an Eastern grip. Currently, Roger Federer, who uses an eastern grip, is noted for having a backhand that can drive the ball, impart dramatic spin, slice it deep, or hit a deadly drop shot.He is however, like all who employ an eastern grip, vulnerable to high bouncing balls and is forced to either slice the ball while still high in the air/take it low and early/allow the ball to drop to a comfortable height. Don Budge hitting a backhand as an amateur in 1935 John Donald (Don or Donnie) Budge (June 13, 1915 – January 26, 2000) was an American tennis champion who was a World No. ...
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In sports, in particular racquet sports, topspin is a property of a shot where the ball rotates as if rolling in the same direction as it is moving. ...
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Against powerful claycourters who employ strong western grips and can drive high bouncing balls with great force, there is often not enough time to take the ball on the rise, and many speculate that this weakness is the explanation for Nadal's dominant record against Federer on the high bouncing clay, where slice is extremely ineffective. Rafael Nadal at the 2005 Roland Garros semifinal, in which he defeated Roger Federer. ...
The first notable players to use two hands were the 1930s Australians Vivian McGrath and John Bromwich. The two-handed grip gained popularity in the 1970s as Bjorn Borg, Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors used it to great effect, and it is now used by a large number of the world's best players, including the Williams sisters. One reason is that most professionals have played tennis from an early age, when they were not strong enough to hit a one-handed backhand. Most professionals who use a two-handed backhand often return hard-to-reach balls with a one-handed backhand. They also often use the one-handed backhand slice in rallies as it is a comfortable shot. Andre Agassi in particular increased his use of the one-handed backhand and often hit an unreturnable dropshot with it. Vivian McGrath (center) in 1934 Vivian Viv McGrath was an Australian tennis champion of the 1930s who, along with another Australian, John Bromwich was one of the first great players to use a two-handed backhand. ...
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Serve The grip for the serve depends on the type of serve. At professional levels, the flat serve (with little or no spin), is hit with a Continental grip. The server stands at an angle to the baseline, so that he can turn during the service and make contact with the racquet squarely on the ball. The Australian Frank Sedgman was one of the great serve-and-volleyers A serve (or, more formally, a service) in tennis is a shot to start a point. ...
The Australian Frank Sedgman was one of the great serve-and-volleyers A serve (or, more formally, a service) in tennis is a shot to start a point. ...
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At professional levels, the slice serve is most commonly hit with a Continental grip. The server tosses the ball a little to the right of his body (if he is right-handed) and cuts the ball at the side to impart spin. For a righthander, the slice serve curves to the left, and is useful in pulling the opponent out wide, or serving into his body. Many players, however, use an Eastern backhand grip for their spin serves; this gives the racquet even more angle as it sweeps across the ball.
The are two types of kick (topspin) serves; the pure topspin serve, and the twist serve. The topspin serve is hit by using a Continental grip and the ball is thrown so that if it were to drop, it would land on the server's head. In the topspin serve, the racquet brushes across the ball to impart topspin. In the American twist serve, the racquet is held with an Eastern backhand or Continental grip. The twist serve has both topspin and slice, and, when hit correctly, bounces in the opposite direction from the slice serve. Both these serves are used to make an effective serve that nevertheless has a high safety factor due to the fact that they clear the net with a relatively high margin of space and use the topspin to pull the ball down into the service box. The Australian Frank Sedgman was one of the great serve-and-volleyers A serve (or, more formally, a service) in tennis is a shot to start a point. ...
The Australian Frank Sedgman was one of the great serve-and-volleyers A serve (or, more formally, a service) in tennis is a shot to start a point. ...
In racquet sports, backspin (also known as slice or underspin), is a shot such that the ball rotates backwards (as though rolling back towards the player) after it is hit. ...
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