Post by shiraishi on May 4, 2008 5:29:32 GMT 7
well basically I find this part of the forum really really dead... So I decided I'd write something about how to play the modern game. I'll post my research up since I got promoted to head of the tennis club in school. I gotta write and analyze stuff anyways so I'll just copy paste what I have.
So today I'll be talking about the uses of spin the modern game.
Tennis has advanced far from the grasses of england and with it came new grips... These grips altered the way the ball was hit and in the late 1930's the revolution in tennis came to America. Bill Tilden's book The Art of Lawn Tennis explained how side spin was able to be hit in huge degrees with backhands and forehands. Soon after the discoveries in different tennis fields like clay, and hard court created the need for a grip other than the continental and the classic eastern. this in turn made the western grips and semi western grips quite popular. So with all these grips the game of modern tennis involves spin rather than pure brawn.
Topspin is the very core of the games we see on tv. The severe drop you see in the tennis ball as it is hit is cause of topspin and not only is it used to drop tennis balls that would normally go out it has big kick. So how can you use this kick? Use it to attack the backhand side of any tennis player and I assure you they'll have a hard time returning it.
So how do you hit it? Hold a tennis racket so that the face is open in front of you. The center to the top (keep in mind the racket is horizontal in front of you) creates sidespin or slice. Topspin is the opposite it's from the center down. So with this in mind use an eastern, semi western, or western to hit it though you can also use continental but that requires some trickiness so I prefer the other grips more. So as the ball is hit towards you use a low to high pattern as shown by james blake in his forehand signature shot:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kluhYnSlGZU
However you need to have your racket stringing at a high tension. Most people will tell you that low stringing tension creates power in your shots and that if your good you'll want a low tension because you can control the shot....
Well those people are ABOSOLUTELY WRONG! 89% of the ATP uses a string tension of 56 and higher if your tension is like 50 and you go like ah it doesn't matter only 6 degrees of tension....LET ME TELL YOU THOSE 6 DEGREES COUNT LIKE CRAZY. I'm currently using a racket with a tension of 52 and trust me most of my shots have crappy topspin. You really want something like a tension of 58 it gives you extra spin and extra control. Some people will use low tension rackets for serving thinking it'll create power... NO IT WON'T!!! Andy Roddick who is the fastest server in the world uses a tension of 60lbs. And roger uses something similar. You really want something higher than 54 if you want good topspin.
Well that'll end the lesson today.
So today I'll be talking about the uses of spin the modern game.
Tennis has advanced far from the grasses of england and with it came new grips... These grips altered the way the ball was hit and in the late 1930's the revolution in tennis came to America. Bill Tilden's book The Art of Lawn Tennis explained how side spin was able to be hit in huge degrees with backhands and forehands. Soon after the discoveries in different tennis fields like clay, and hard court created the need for a grip other than the continental and the classic eastern. this in turn made the western grips and semi western grips quite popular. So with all these grips the game of modern tennis involves spin rather than pure brawn.
Topspin is the very core of the games we see on tv. The severe drop you see in the tennis ball as it is hit is cause of topspin and not only is it used to drop tennis balls that would normally go out it has big kick. So how can you use this kick? Use it to attack the backhand side of any tennis player and I assure you they'll have a hard time returning it.
So how do you hit it? Hold a tennis racket so that the face is open in front of you. The center to the top (keep in mind the racket is horizontal in front of you) creates sidespin or slice. Topspin is the opposite it's from the center down. So with this in mind use an eastern, semi western, or western to hit it though you can also use continental but that requires some trickiness so I prefer the other grips more. So as the ball is hit towards you use a low to high pattern as shown by james blake in his forehand signature shot:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kluhYnSlGZU
However you need to have your racket stringing at a high tension. Most people will tell you that low stringing tension creates power in your shots and that if your good you'll want a low tension because you can control the shot....
Well those people are ABOSOLUTELY WRONG! 89% of the ATP uses a string tension of 56 and higher if your tension is like 50 and you go like ah it doesn't matter only 6 degrees of tension....LET ME TELL YOU THOSE 6 DEGREES COUNT LIKE CRAZY. I'm currently using a racket with a tension of 52 and trust me most of my shots have crappy topspin. You really want something like a tension of 58 it gives you extra spin and extra control. Some people will use low tension rackets for serving thinking it'll create power... NO IT WON'T!!! Andy Roddick who is the fastest server in the world uses a tension of 60lbs. And roger uses something similar. You really want something higher than 54 if you want good topspin.
Well that'll end the lesson today.
