How to master the forehand tennis ball return ?
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Practice, practice, practice
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You can try giving the ball a slight kick with your wrist as your hitting it. For me, this made my serve drop faster. And I'd alternate with a serve with no wrist which would float more. Not necessary very powerful, but hard to handle.
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To distinguish between the forehand & Back Hand.
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The most common hammer grip is with the racket face parallel to the net. Then shake hands with the racket and you have a serve and forehand grip.  However most people close the face slightly for their forehand and open the face slightly on their serve grip.  The reason is to allow for more spin to be generated on the two strokes.
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*** Asumption of a Right Handed Bowler - Reverse if left handed ***\n\nStand with your middle to of your left foot (slide foot) on the middle dot (The Big one), holding the ball at hip level.\n\nPush ball straight away from you when you take your first step.  Ball should swing naturally, and should not be forced during delivery.\n\nAs you continue through your approach, release the ball toward the head pin and follow through with your hand, such as you were going to shake hands with the head pin, with your thumb up in the air, bring your arm all the way up to your right ear.  Your follow through is the most important part of your delivery, as it tells you where the ball is going to go.\n\nThe ball should travel near the third arrow, or just right of it and should hit the pins just to the right of the head pin.\n\nThis should get you off on the right start.  Good Luck.
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I agree with nyyjeterlover02.\n\n1.  Force your opponent out of their comfort zone. \nThe person your most likely playing has a pattern, or a winning formula in which they unknowingly stick to.  May be they like baseline-baseline play only.  May be they ring around your shot to return the ball only with their power forehand.  In cases like this, either draw him toward the net with drop shots, or concentrate your shot to his backhand.  In addition, vary your shots with topspins, chops, angle shots, and see how he reacts to them.  This all of course is easier said than done, but doable.\n\n2.  Know your opponent as well as yourself.\nWith all due respect, your probably thinking that there is nothing about your game that is wrong.  How do you react in a pressure situation game?  What will you do when he rushes you at the net all of a sudden?  How are you going to counteract any power serves he has?  What are your strengths and weaknesses, and how can you capitalize/compensate for it?\n\n3.  Feel the center.\nFeel the center of your opponent and the tennis court, and feel the balance/imbalance of your opponent.  Is your opponent's momentum gaining or losing?  How will you respond?\n\n4.  Tennis is mental.\nMaster the mental aspect of tennis, and you'll see your game improve.\n\nBest
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Alright..first you need to address the problem. What's wrong with your serve??\nIf it makes it to the net but not over, then your toss probably isn't high enough or your not putting enough power into it. If it's just going crazy, then try hitting it differently(if you hit open hand try closed, if you hit closed try open) Personally I would reccommend serving open hand. One thing that is really important is that you make sure you have enough power. Try lifting wieghts or doing push ups(ick I know) Other than that just make sure you follow through with your form and stuff. Make sure your hand is back, you have the right foot forward, and then just toss, step, swing. If you let me know more details I may be able to help more. Just remember the basics, and practice makes perfect. Good Luck!!!
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when you run to the ball square up with your feet pretty much parrallel and use your entire body as you hit your forehand. as you follow through you should end up from the squared up position to facing your opponent. youre grip should be tight because you are using alot of force. when you execute your forehand your racquet should be wound up a good elbow's length and your racquet head should be facing down. continue to keep the elbow length and hit that hit like theres no tommorrow. i hope that makes sense. since i have alot of speed i can get to balls with ease and i am a multi sport athlete, so i have a cannon arm.so, again... i run to the ball square my feet up wind up hit the ball using my entire body, and as i follow through i have have sort of a little hop or studder step because im using my whole body. i end up facing the opponenet, my racquet head ends up over my opposite shoulder and the finishing product is a wicket forehand with alot of speed, topspin and tough for my opponent to recover from. my NTRP ranking was above 6.0 when i played but since i stopped playin i dont know if i still got it. i committed myself to baseball.
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To me the easiest way would be adjusting the position of the ball in your stance slightly.  If you slice it move it towards your front foot more so that the clubface gets turned more before you hit it if you hook it move it back a little so that the club face doesnt get that far turned before you hit it.
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Get a rubber paddle with padding (it helps with the spinning big time in comparison to the harder wood paddles).  Then as you're returning the ball to the other player you want to brush the side of it rather than hit it directly back at him.  It will take some practice, but after a few tries you'll get it.  Brushing the right side will make it spin one way and brushing the left side will make it spin the other way.  If you brush the top of the ball toward your opponent you will get "top spin" and increase the speed of the ball as it hits the other side of the table.  \n\nHope that helps!
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How long is a piece of string?\nHow good is 'really good'?\nDepends on so many factors: your athletic ability, your coach, your determination, your talent, your self-discipline, etc. \nAs a teaching professional, I am able to get most complete beginner rallying balls baseline to baseline in the first half hour. Thereafter, it is just automising the swing and making them more powerful. Tennis is a simple sport: the ball weighs only a few ounces and the court is very big, so in theory, it is not brain surgery. But realise that it takes years and years of concerted practise to make a backhand into an excellent backhand.
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Start by treading water to keep your head and shoulders above the surface.  Hold the ball in both hands.  Your dominant hand is holding the ball above your head.  The hand is underneath, to push the ball, with elbow bent and wrist bent backward.  Your other hand is on the side, to guide the ball.  Push the ball by straightening your elbow and flicking your wrist to apply backspin.
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Okay, the object, as you should know is to get the yellow ball over the net, and inside the lines. If you are playing 1 on 1, use the inside lines. if you are playing 2 on 2, then you have that extra area on the side to hit it in, the valley. You may want to start off just hitting the ball back and forth with your partner. But you want to follow through on your shots, at first just hitting it may seem like a good idea, but eventally you will suck. If you start off following through your shots (you will be bad at first) but you eventally will get better.\n\ncheck out the link for more info...
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i play varsity tennis at school; the main thing i do in the first set is to get the ball in, even if it means taking some power off your shots; like your problem, you don't want to get behind, so think accuracy, not power
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For most people, the grip largely determines the type of backhand that you can hit. Most players today hit topspin, and to do so they don't use a "shake-hands" grip, but a strong Eastern backhand. You can get this by placing your palm on top of the racket, with the racket in front of you and pointing to your left. With this grip, combined with a low-to-high swing, you will be on your way to topspin.\nI have provided three online sites that provide helpful information. The first, Tennisone.com, has an extensive library of instructions on every stroke, as well as slo-mo examples of many of the top players's strokes. To get the most out of this site, you should sign up for a nominal fee.\nThe second resource, the USPTA, provides free examples of each of the strokes, again in slow motion.\nThe third site is by a very effective instructor, Oscar Wegner. If you can afford a few bucks, you can get his book or (for more money) an extensive set of DVDs on all of the strokes. His is a very simple method that gets results fast, especially for beginners.\nGood luck!
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ZZTOPSPIN, if you want to serve like a profesional, then you should find yourself a coach because it's really the best way to do it. But with that in mind, I'll try to help you the best that I can.\n\nAs a tennis instructor, we teach the serve in steps. The first things we work on are the toss and the contact. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart (and with your non-dominant foot forward) and place your racket on the ground with the strings about six inches from your front-most foot. Toss the ball so that it goes up about a foot and a half from your outstretched hand and lands on the racquet. Keep doing this until you can hit your racquet consistently. You may be thinking, "This is so stupid!" But how often do you see professional players toss the ball, and then have to take steps sideways to get themselves in position to hit their poorly performed toss? NEVER! And how many times do you see recreational players do it? ALWAYS! And so, I repeat, the toss is a key to a professional's serve.\n\nAlso, when you toss the ball, hold the ball with the tips of your fingers. This is because you want to release your toss such that the ball DOES NOT spin in the air. If you hold the ball in your palm, the ball will end up rolling up fingers, will spin in the air, and will respond differently every time. We want consistency here.\n\nNow that you've got your toss down consistently, you're going to want to work on your contact. Before we do that, we want to address your grip. Changing your grip is a good way to change the kind of spin that you put on the ball, but it usually isn't the way that pros do it. Spin comes later. Don't worry about that now. Hold your racquet with the "V" of your thumb and pointer finger on the middle bevel found by following the side edge of your racqued down to your grip. Start with your racquet in "back scratch position", or with the side of your racquet touching the middle of your back. Toss the ball, and extend up to contact and swing through the ball. Keep doing this until you gain comfort with the motion and consistent placement.\n\nCongratulations, you've made it past the first step. There are dozens of different drills that you could do to work on these different aspects of the first step. I've only mentioned two. You should really contact an instructor to help you if you struggle making it through this first step.\n\nStep Two: Now you're going to add the loopy motion that is typical of professional serves. This motion ends up being different for everyone. Pete Sampras, as was mentioned earlier, has a serve that is considered the perfect serve. Theoretically, it maximized momentum and power, however, Andy Roddick badly violates many of the principles of the Sampras serve and still manages to hit his serve harder than anyone ever before. And so, I can't tell you that there is ONE way to do things. All that I can suggest is that you start with your weight on your front foot, and that you transfer that weight to your back foot as you move through to your backscratch position. That way, you can spring out of backscratch and into the ball.\n\nFor you, do whatever you have to do to go from the resting position, to the back scratch position. Some players serve from a pinpoint stance (meaning their feet move together before springing into their serve) while others maintain the shoulder width distance. This is all up to you. The key is to explode up to the ball from the backscratch position. You already mentioned making contact at the highest point, you also want to try to "hit up" on the ball. You may think that you're going to send the ball into the next time zone, but if you tossed the ball at the correct height and make contact at the apex, "hitting up" on the ball will give you the explosion that you need to really power through the ball.\n\nAnother thing, is that you're going to want your serve to lead you i
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I am not sure if you are a male or female but in the end it comes down to technique over upper body strength anyway. There are many types of serves one can master. The three most common are your underhand serve...your overhand floater and your jump serve. Most people strive to learn to jump serve, though it is a less accurate serve and tends to work best if you can physically overpower your opponant.  The arm swing on your underhand serve is similiar to rolling a ball in bowling. With the volleyball in your left hand extended out, elbow slightly bent..(opposite hands for a lefty) You make contact with an unclenched fist....pushing off the ball of your right back foot. The underside of your forearm should be up. You direct the ball up AND over the net. Once mastered this is a very dependable serve..but not powerful. The OVERHAND FLOATER is an overhand serve with little to no spin. It may tend to be harder to receive because it "floats" through the air without a speedy trejectory. Thus it's name.  The overhand floater requires less power than an overhand serve with spin and more speed. Step 1: The ball should be thrown in the air. It is less important which hand you use to do this or whether or not your use two hands for your toss so long as it is accurate and about 18" above your head. Contact should be made by swinging your right arm (L for a lefty) and hitting the ball with the ball of your hand. Not the palm/fingers/or wrist! The most common mistakes are a bad toss, inproper contact, and failing to fully extend your arm above your head to maximize reach. Swing with your whole arm and not just at the elbow. Once you learn to put these two serves over the net you can work more on placement, speed, etc. Write back then and ask for tips on other overhand serves and jump serving. Good luck! :o)