Tennis grips affect comfort, control, and durability during play. Compare overgrips, replacement grips, and materials with tested performance data and wear breakdowns.
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.
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…