Tennis Groundstrokes Lesson | Rhythm Secrets

Tennis Groundstrokes Lesson | Rhythm Secrets

In this video, you'll learn how to achieve perfect rhythm on your groundstrokes.

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The first thing we need to talk about is footwork… it’s the first step.

One of the reasons the pros can find a great rhythm is their feet NEVER stop moving during a point. And don’t be fooled, movement dictates EVERYTHING in tennis. You can have the best looking forehand in the world, but if you’re not in position to hit the ball… you’ll just have a beautiful swing and a miss or a shank.

And for this, I highly recommend that when you go out to practice and play, you make a conscious effort to keep your feet moving during the point. Don’t worry too much about footwork patterns, that can come later. Just keep your feet moving. Use a split step, or some version of it as your opponent hits the ball, move towards the ball and hit. And once you recover, continue moving those feet.

Now chances are, if you’re like most players I watch, at the club level your feet are stopping after you hit the ball. So it’s going to take some serious rewiring to get your feet moving continuously throughout the point. But it’s a change that I promise will pay huge dividends as it becomes part of your natural game.

Now the general speed of the ball you’re preparing to hit is going to determine how quickly you need to move your feet. And I like to think of it like a train you’re trying to jump on. You know like on the cartoons, where the villain is making away with the girl, and the hero has to jump on the train. If you’re going to do this, you have to make sure you’re moving as fast as the train before you jump on board and rescue the girl. Let the speed of the ball act kind of like the beat that you’re going to move your feet to. If it’s a slower ball, you can be a little more deliberate… and as the pace increases, the speed of your movements needs to increase.

assuming we’re moving into the right position to hit the ball, the next thing we need to do is to make sure our stroke is in rhythm. This means your stroke should get you to your ideal contact point, the 45 degree angle into the court as often and as consistently as possible. I don’t know if you’re hitting the “Modern Forehand” with more of a loop… or if you hit the ball more traditionally with kind of a straight back and through. But I’ll say this, as for the rhythm of your stroke it should get you to your ideal contact point, the 45 degree angle into the court as often as possible.

And this is where you’re we’re going to have to experiment a bit. But if you imagine for a second that each groundstroke you hit is really in two phases, this will help you. In any given shot, we’re receiving the ball first, and sending the ball second.

And during the receiving phase is when I want you to imagine that you’re pulling the ball in. So imagine your hips and shoulders are reeling in this giant fish. And just as it gets to you, you’re gonna send it back into the ocean.

The center of your body is what’s going to give you the first jump on getting your rhythm and timing down. We want to imagine that you’re bringing that ball in… sucking it in almost.

What you DON”T want to do is see the ball coming, immediately turn sideways and get your racket back. Why? Because this destroys a the sense of connectedness that we want to strive for on every shot. The more connected you are to the ball, the easier it will be fore ou to adjust to the different speeds of the ball that you’re getting.

Now if you feel like you're late on every single ball, this might be a decent intermediate step to thinking of the receiving and sending that we just talked about… but as soon as you can get comfortable meeting the ball in front of your body, start thinking of the stroke as getting your timing on the way in and seamlessly transitioning to the sending portion of your swing.

If you’re using a loop, or a modern forehand, think of your hands as always catching up to your hips. Your hips are always going to be slightly ahead of your hands. thats what creates the “lag” that you hear everyone talk about. As the hips start to rotate away from the court, the hands trail behind and begin the loop… and as the hips start to come forward, the hands lag behind and lay the racket head into the ball.

This timing will obviously vary with the speed of the oncoming ball… and ultimately this is all something you’re going to have to feel. But a really good starting off point is to keep your hands moving with the flight of the ball. So as the ball rises off your opponents racket, your hands start to rise, as the ball drops, your hands begin to drop and go right into the hit.

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