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TENNIS GRIPS
TENNIS GRIPS
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How to Find a Tennis Grip
The way how you hold the tennis racket in your hand when you are about to strike a tennis ball is called the grip. Great easy tennis strokes combining power and accurate placement are the result of many elements put together which start with... CONTINENTAL GRIP The Continental grip is the most eclectic one, in the past it was used for almost every shot. It was very popular until the early 1970s, but when the US Open and the Australian Open switched from playing on grass to hard courts, leaving Wimbledon as the only Grand Slam tournament to be played on grass...
FOREHAND GRIPS
This is most teaching pros favorite grip to pass on to their beginner students. In the WTA and ATP tours it has been replaced by the semi-Western grip, nevertheless it is still used by many high level tennis players.
The sure way how to to find this grip is to start with the continental grip and then turn the base knuckle...
Most power baseliner tennis players in the WTA and ATP tours favor the
semi-Western grip and of course many teachers around the world encourage their pupils to use it...
This is the clay-court specialists and heavy topspin hitters favorite grip...
BACKHAND GRIPS
This is a great grip for someone just beginning to learn how to hit a one-hander backhand...
This is mainly a clay court grip designed for hitting heavy topspin shots. Not advised for flat or slice shots and requires a point of contact several inches further forward than the Full Eastern...
With players learning the game forever younger and with weaker arm strength for one handed backhands the popularity of the two-handed backhand grew exponentially...
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