How To Hit The Perfect Open Stance Backhand in Tennis 🎾
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
- HOW TO: Hit The Perfect Open Stance Backhand in Tennis 🎾
The open stance backhand in tennis is a great way to deal with wide balls, deep balls, and fast balls. If you master this shot, you'll add a great weapon to your tennis toolbox. Download our FREE backhand guide here - www.top-tennis-training.com/f...
In this free tennis lesson, Coach Simon Konov of Top Tennis Training will help you to hit the perfect open stance backhand in tennis, for two-handed backhand players.
The Three Keys To The Perfect Open Stance Backhand:
1. Using rotational power is fundamental on the open stance backhand. Since we cannot transfer our body weight through the ball, we need the power to come from the trunk rotation and the hip loading and unloading. Along with this, using the legs to load and explode is key.
2. Reaching a perfect power position. This means getting your right shoulder facing towards the net, the racket head higher than the grip (creating space to accelerate), and the body coiled.
3. Getting to the ball is also a key element in hitting effective open stance backhands. Try to run to the ball with normal running steps whenever possible, to save time and energy.
In this video, you'll see super slow motion footage of Novak Djokovic hitting the open stance backhand, Rafa Nadal hitting the open stance backhand, Serena Williams hitting the open stance backhand and open stance backhand drills.
Video Timeline:
00:00 - Why use an open stance backhand in tennis?
00:44 - How to create power on the open stance backhand
03:05 - The perfect power position
05:11 - When should you use the open stance backhand?
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That's definitely the best practice for a backhand.
Thanks a lot coach simon my backhand has improved a lot❤️
Happy to help!
Excellent once again!
Many thanks 🙏
Just another comment to ask you to do one for the one-handed backhand too please! The open stance for 1BH is probably not as optimal as a two handed backhand since we usually want to stay closed stanced/sideways but it's definitely still important to have in your arsenal for fast/strong balls/ balls that push you out wide I feel like. I feel like Thiem uses it well.
Absolutely
Great video!!! I am working on it.🙏
You got this!
Thanks Simon
Thanks for watching 👍
This was great ! Can you do one for one-handed backhand as well please ?
I’ll add it to the list 👍
Excellent.
Many thanks 🙏
Cheatsipas is starting to use open stance single backhand too
Great coaching as always. You seem to have a power lifter/ strength body type, wide solid frame. Do you do resistance training too?
Yes, lots of resistance training. Many years of it, too much for tennis but good for my overall strength. I’ve cut down now for matches
Thanks, superb insight! I have a one-handed backhand; much of the same would apply, no?
The upper body coiling, loading with the legs, the hip coil and reaching a good power position would all be the same. With the one-hander, you wouldn’t focus as much on the right to left hip motion or uncoiling the upper body as much, you’d focus more on extending through the ball
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial I see, makes perfect sense. Thanks!
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial I’d be great to a video demonstration and showing those differences. Sounds like two hander is better for defense. One hander for punishing.
Seeing those Djokovic clips repeatedly is just frustrating :) He is not even pushing off the left leg at all as he's in full stretch in the first clip, yet he has enough power and total control over the shot, it's incredible. I think his timing in that particular backhand is something that can never be mastered by recreational players. But I will surely try to play the high backhands with open stance as I usually get into trouble when dealing with deep topspin to my bh.
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Joker does a lot more sit ups than Rec players
@@willhopson1277 Of course, he does a lot more of everything :)
Actually you can get more power from a top hand release 2 hand BH because the bottom hand the RH stays on the racket and the left slides off so you get a longer lever that way. Try it.
Then it becomes a one hander with guidance from the top hand. You can have a similar extension through the contact if you engage the top hand from a bent position through to an extended position during and after contact
All a two handed BH is is a two handed left handed FH if you're right handed cause you use your left hand as dominant. So it should be hit as a FH and open stance is natural. People think the footwork is the same as a traditional one handed true BH shot. But it's not a BH in reality a two handed left handed FH. Except if you play it like Borg with top ( left hand release).
It depends on the style of swing a player uses. A double bend, typical on the WTA tour, is more like a lefty forehand. A more extended arm, Agassi style, Djokovic style, and many other legendary backhands, are more like a baseball swing with the arms extending towards the target.
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial get what you're saying. My point is no matter how you look at the technique its still some form of a 2 hand left hand FH if the left hand is dominant. (Talking a righty... for a lefty opposite) . interestingly Rafa is a natural righty who plays lefty so of course he has natural skill in his right hand when he plays a 2 handed BH as lefty he's actually using the exact same profile as a RH hitter in baseball which gives him an edge. Let's just say at this point he's ambidextrous for tennis at least.
4:20 oh man, that's asking a lot from this 44 year old dad bod coach Simon. But I will try!
🤣 sorry about that
Was the Nadal two handed backhand (from what appears to be his left) included to get comments?
No. It was to make it easier for 90% of our viewers to understand.
Why was it tennis taboo in the past? Heavier racquets?
Smaller head sizes which made produces topspin much harder. So players were encouraged and taught to use neutral or closed stances to ensure a longer, more linear strike zone to improve their chances of making contact in the sweet spot
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial I still was 40 years ago, though heads were already pretty big by then. And some coaches were (are?) still teaching close-stance *forehands*.
And with the one handed backhand ? Please
Similar except the uncoiling with hips/shoulders
So although you have less reach to the wide ball the recovery is quicker.
You have less reach by stepping in with a neutral or closed stance. An open stance allows you to reach wider with the body
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You're fast
How much money you make with this video's? Paint the lines.....
Not my courts, I don’t paint the lines. If I did, can guarantee you they’d be painted properly.
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