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This tutorial is guaranteed to improve your slice backhand massively. Here at Supreme Tennis, we have studied this shot amongst the top players in the world including the likes of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and many more pros at the top of the game. In doing so, we want to share with the information gathered, to give you the slice backhand that we all desire to have.
3 main points:
Keep the racket face more square at contact. To ensure this, maintain a square racket face in your take back position.
The ‘L shape you create with your hitting arm and racket, must stay constant throughout the whole stroke. If you break the L (if you break your wrist) as you hit into the ball, you will have far less control of the shot.
Open the front shoulder, without fully opening the hips. Remain side on throughout the stroke. The hips will open to some degree, but do not uncoil as aggressively as you would for a topspin backhand. Lead with the front shoulder.
Practise this shot to vary your game, give you more options and make you a more complete player. Do not forget to comment in the comments section if you have any questions, as we will respond to you within 24hrs.
Enjoy guys!
How's it going guys? Welcome to another tutorial video
where we're going to be looking at the slice backhand today and I feel like
this is a very underrated shot that often players overlook
but if you can hit it well many are going to struggle to deal with it
especially if you can keep it low and get it shooting through the court
and you can use it to attack you can use it to defend
you can use it to switch up the pace of the rally so it's a very good shot to
add to your game and if you want to be able to hit that
Now an effective slice wants to stay low
they want to stay low off the bounce and really shoot through the court
and a very common mistake I see with a lot of players is they try to
knife the ball they try to cut the ball as thin as possible because they feel
the more backspin they get on the ball the more effective the shot
but usually what happens in that situation is the ball floats up high
and it usually drops quite short easy for the opponent to punish
and that happens because in their take back position here
their strings are too open and when they make contact with the ball
again the strings are too open they don't find enough of the ball
and like I said the ball floats up high and drops quite short
and there's actually a quick fix you guys can do to stop floating that ball
up high and that's to have a more square racket face
when at contact and if we look at the take back position
instead of having your strings open here you're going to have your strings a
little bit more square and as you go forwards into the ball
that's going to help you to be more square at contact and keep that ball low
and get it shooting through the court more
again if your strings are open you're going to cut the ball too thin
the ball's going to shoot up if you have it a little bit more square in this
take back position as you come down on the ball you're
going to maintain that square racket face
and like I said the ball's going to stay low and be a much more difficult shot to
deal with and also whilst we're just talking about
that take back position you can see when I set up for the shot
here I create this sort of L between my arm and my racket there's a
sort of L shape there and that's going to stay consistent throughout the whole
stroke if when I go forwards to strike the ball
if I break the L or in other words if I break my wrist
I don't really have much control of the shot so just another very useful tip
there keep that L consistent from start to
finish and avoid breaking that wrist now the
last bit of advice I want to share with you guys again is going to give you a
bit more control of the shot and just improve the overall technique
of your slice backhand and that is to open the front shoulder
without fully opening the hips now with the slice you want to stay a
little bit more side on and your hips are going to open to some degree
but I'm not going to fully uncoil my hips as I would for a normal
topspin backhand okay so I have a single-handed backhand as I turn and
wind up I really want to uncoil my hips and
really try and utilize the hips to get that power on the shot
with the slice backhand I want to stay a little bit more side on and again
this tip is going to give you a bit more control so try and open the front
shoulder here without fully opening the hips okay
and that's going to give you a bit more control
and give you a much give you a much better slice backhand
so just quickly to summarize we spoke about three different things to improve
your slice backhand the first being to maintain a more
square racket face when at contact so we spoke about that
take back position and having the strings a little bit more
square in this position here as opposed to
having the strings open to prevent you from fluffing the ball
up high and short the second thing was that l
shape again in the take back position and keeping that consistent from start
to finish and then the last tip was to open the
front shoulder without opening the hips too much okay
you want to stay a little bit more side on
with your slice backhand anyway guys as always thanks for watching
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