Forehand technique, racquet selection, and stroke fundamentals for tennis players seeking to improve consistency, power, and directional control.
There is a reason coaches keep returning to the same small set of hand positions: the way you hold the handle sets the angle of the strings at the instant they meet the ball, and that angle decides…
The forehand grip that produces the most topspin is, for almost everyone we put on a ball machine, the wrong grip to learn.
A few weeks ago we set a ball machine to feed flat forehands at roughly 55 mph, one every four seconds, to a single intermediate player — a 24-year-old who plays twice a week and has had maybe a dozen…
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…