For one handed backhand most coaches these days recommend racket head pointing up during take back. Yours is almost horizontal and seems to be working very well. I like it very much.👍
I tried it like that, but I think it has more disadvantages than advantages. My 2 biggest problems with it are that it is much harder to hit high balls. My way super easy. And also the racket path is longer which is not good when you are getting fast balls. I think that pointing the racket straight up is the number 1 reason for one-handed backhand becoming extinct. Look at the most successful one hander on clay in modern tennis: GUSTAVO KUERTEN! RG champ 3 times. Not straight up at all. With straight up to be successful on clay you either have to cover 80% of court with forehand like Tsitsipas or stand far back to hit the ball when its lower like Wawrinka. And when he was younger and faster he could do that, not any more. Plus his backhand is so powerful that they couldn't attack him with shorter balls. But now he's slower and players have better control and more power to handel his power better. Plus no one else has such a powerful ohbh. I don't think that it should be horizontal either, but sth in between.
@@sashatennis2819 Makes sense. Any disadvantages with your style? I feel as though I may have difficulty closing the racket face. By the way is your grip full eastern or a bit more extreme than that?
For one handed backhand most coaches these days recommend racket head pointing up during take back. Yours is almost horizontal and seems to be working very well. I like it very much.👍
I tried it like that, but I think it has more disadvantages than advantages. My 2 biggest problems with it are that it is much harder to hit high balls. My way super easy. And also the racket path is longer which is not good when you are getting fast balls.
I think that pointing the racket straight up is the number 1 reason for one-handed backhand becoming extinct.
Look at the most successful one hander on clay in modern tennis: GUSTAVO KUERTEN! RG champ 3 times. Not straight up at all.
With straight up to be successful on clay you either have to cover 80% of court with forehand like Tsitsipas or stand far back to hit the ball when its lower like Wawrinka. And when he was younger and faster he could do that, not any more. Plus his backhand is so powerful that they couldn't attack him with shorter balls. But now he's slower and players have better control and more power to handel his power better. Plus no one else has such a powerful ohbh.
I don't think that it should be horizontal either, but sth in between.
@@sashatennis2819 Makes sense. Any disadvantages with your style? I feel as though I may have difficulty closing the racket face. By the way is your grip full eastern or a bit more extreme than that?
That overhead behind the back at 2.42 👏
Thanks!