Forehand technique, racquet selection, and stroke fundamentals for tennis players seeking to improve consistency, power, and directional control.
The short version: a full western forehand grip produced roughly 12–18% more measured topspin than a semi-western in our hitting sessions, but cost the same testers about one in five low balls they…
Here is the claim we are going to spend the rest of this article earning the right to make: the semi-western forehand grip is not, primarily, a topspin grip. It is a contact-height grip.
There is a question intermediate players ask their coaches, then ask again on Reddit, then ask a third time when they're stringing a new frame: should I still bother learning the Eastern forehand, or…
There is a sentence that gets repeated in clinics, lesson bays, and the comment sections under every forehand video on the internet: "switch to a semi-western forehand grip and you'll finally get…
Most intermediate players we coach have, at some point, drifted into a grip that is neither one thing nor the other — somewhere between an eastern and a semi-western, set by accident rather than…