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Good explanation but video needs to be more down..to see the leg drive..wich gave you more push upward.

Nothing taught in this video. Sorry.

Hitting the ball on the rise was what made Andre Agassi so successful. Good tips, good video, keep it up.

Looks like Monrovia, Arcadia.

One of the least-cited advantages of working like crazy on consistency in the up-the-line BH is that, if you can really master it, going cross-court with the BH seems so easy by comparison because the net (as you note) is lower and you have more air-time to get the top-spin to bring the ball down within the court (allowing you to hit it harder but flatter). Indeed, I almost never practice the x-court version anymore (unless working on shot combination patterns) because of this.

Yeah, but also the most difficult shot in tennis as you have to hit the ball on the rise with your weaker stroke, imagine your opponent can hit with crazy amount of heavy topspin😂

Thanks, Ryan. Please do make more videos on this subject. I do like to hit 1HBH down the line but timing is often tricky and if I am just a little bit late the ball goes wide.

The secret to hit the ball low is hook spin. You are referring to a door knob. Not bad but it still involves turning over; that move you make at the end will confuse people. You clear the net by how low you come from. You keep it low by hooking the ball and finishing low. For extreme low dips, extreme hook. And six inches over the net is an easy goal then.

Thanks for the video, Ryan. Could you please cover on how you “chase” the lob most efficiently?

I wouldn't say that the cross court backhand duel into a drop shot is a pattern for all levels, I would say that's fairly advanced tbh, thanks for the vid

Thanks for the video!

Can’t thank you enough for this awesome content 👍

Great tip! I've been trying to learn this shot.

Awesome tip. One of the very few people on you tube who provides something useful!

Thanks for the tip. On those high short balls it has always felt more natural to let the ball drop but I’ll give this technique a try for high balls.

5ft over the net is the kind of clearance the tour has. So the tv deceives us slightly. The ball is not as low as we think.

devils door knob 😁

Good technique 👍

Fantastic! Makes total sense and will work to put it to practice this week.

@ryannuno8624 - could you please make a separate video on the mid court / put away shots and drills. Like how you did for big, flat serve (“improve serve speed”). That was fantastic for self learning. You rip those mid-court floater with ease, pace and placement. I’ve developed a decent serve and at my 3.5/4.0 level I often get a high loopy or short, skidding return. My current issue is the shot selection and technique on these easy, point ending opportunities. I need to learn what shot to hit and how to balance spin and pace. Thanks, D1 king.

Awesome stuff 🔥

Hi Ryan. Thanks for these patterns, iam going to try to implemente it in my game. Just a question out of curiosity: in which country/city is this beautiful tennis court with a view on the mountains? 😊

Guy knows his stuff!

How to close pushers long rallies!

I believe what the 'door knob' Ryan is refering is also cud be understood for FH-pronation.

Lately I have been focusing on my elbow remaining level to keep the ball low and in, maybe the door knob swing though will give me a little wiggle room on the trajectory of the swing to keep my shot in. Thanks

Great job ryan. I will pass this along to my high school single players today

So simple, really, but so practical and effective. Tennis strategy isn’t 3-dimensional chess. It’s really just the mastering of a handful of tactics that can work very well a lot of the time, dependent in the end upon your ability to execute the shots and your opponent’s ability to battle back with their own counter-offensive plans to disrupt yours. Would love to see a few more of these routinely-used patterns.

This is what I’m looking for, thank you!

Nice work Ryan, awesome breakdown and easy to understand. Keep it up!

@ryannuno8624 Thanks for following up! I’ve started to practice this already, but you reinforced it. My issue is that I need to hone my down the line - I tend to over hit or hit the net often, so I am working to calibrate it.

Great video, you are the first to touch on this subject. Thank you.

💡moment for me here, thank you so much for sharing this.

“Door knob” Hmmm. Never heard that one. I always hear “windshield wiper.” Either works, I guess, so …

This is exactly how I hit (having modeled my FH on Fed’s), … but your thesis here begs the question: why then do so many high-level players speak of the “high/heavy ball” as the Holy Grail, and work so hard to do the (so-called) “next-gen” style FH (a la Sock, Kyrgios, and Draper), or even just the buggywhip style (a la Nadal)? While I must confess that it is much less fun - at least for me with my 1HBH - to face guys that play like that (if they can consistently drop it just inside the baseline, and causing it to jump like a kick serve), none of those violent style strokes have anything close to the aesthetically smooth fluidity, apparent effortlessness and elegance of the “modern FH” (at least when Master Fed does it). And when I play guys that give me the high/heavy ball all day, my only real chance to come out alive is to live at or even inside the baseline and take everything on-the-rise (also a la Fed). But that ain’t so easy. When you hit low’ish but very hard, penetrating balls to the baseline (like I do, and like you’re advocating for here), they will indeed kick, but they will kick FAST, not high, and it’s the height of the high/heavy balls that’s very challenging to play against aggressively (rather than just defensively). All of this is just to say that the high/heavy ball really does have a lot of competitive advantages. Thoughts?

Great stuff, could you do vid with overheads?

How is keeping the ball low a good idea in & of itself ?

What’s funny Patrick mortaglou keeps saying over and over is to hit ball high and deep. Yet I don’t see any pro players hitting high over net

What a stupid video lol

Awesome content. I do have a question on the use of the legs for ground strokes. A former coach advised that I stay low throughout the shot by imagining a ceiling above my head, timing the leg drive to the contact, and then push forward while staying at the same height. I’ve also heard others say to load and then rise a bit before contact. Could you do a video on this or explain if there are scenarios in which both methods are correct or is one better than the other? Thank you!

Nice and the one thing you have over every other tennis instruction video is you talk over the action thanks for not making me watch a minute or two before you hit it once and talk for another minute or two

@Ryan - would you ever get a chance to record some of these tips with a partner or student? You had some of those earlier videos hitting with the partner and those were great.

this is so good. Can't wait to try this out! 9 UTR here! beautiful forehand btw

Thank you so much!

Super video, I can’t wait to try this out 👍

Is that ‘door knob’ coming by rotating wrist consciously?

thks

Thank you I love it

What about the form of the backswing, is it important?

Awesome video! For some reason, this topic really got me thinking about how it could help prevent being pushed back by big hitters. Could you explain how to absorb pace both during a rally and on a return of serve?