Groundstrokes of Tennis

Groundstrokes of tennis are the basic shot you make once the point has begun.
Although these shots can be played from anywhere in the court, they are usually played from near the baseline and after the ball has bounced.

How you hold the racquet determines how you play the game, so practice your swing and getting your grip correct until you feel comfortable playing these groundstrokes.

• Shots on the forehand side are made with the swing arm moving alongside and away from the body before swinging forward to play the ball.

• Shots on the backhand side are made with the swing arm taking the racquet back across the front side of the body before swinging forward to play the ball.

• Two-handed backhand players use combination of these swings.

Groundstrokes of Tennis is one of the best tennis technique to played.

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Improving Foot Speed When Play Tennis

There are three components to improve the foot speed when play tennis, namely acceleration, stride rate and stride length. This third component also applies to all sports. If the field size of 39 feet from the baseline to the net, it can be concluded that all ran in tennis including a constant acceleration to the deceleration required to achieve the position of hitting the ball.

In tennis, every point starts from a fixed position. For example, for the return of serve (service returns the opponent), volleyball, and the double game in front of the net. So start ability crucial.

Understanding of the acceleration is the ability to change the tempo of athletes running, such as improving the speed of each step.

Stride rate toward understanding how the speed of tennis leg spur.

Stride length toward understanding the length of each stride.

Agility is athlete's ability to change directions without losing speed. Research shows the tennis athletes to change direction on average 4-5 times per point. Movement in tennis include:
Lateral 48%
Forward 47%
Backward 5%

Expert on the movement (movement) specializing agility exercises as follows:
70% meet the beat of the speed (burst of speed) must be under 10 seconds
20% meet the beat of the speed (burst of speed) should be 10-20 seconds
10% up to the beat of the speed exceed 20 seconds.

Let's try to improving foot speed when you play tennis.

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How to Learn Tennis Movement

According to Feisal Hassan from USPTA Master Professional, he said that there are some factors in the Tennis Movement.

First is Perception, how quickly the player and the ability to see the ball loose from his opponent's racket and guess the direction and speed of the ball.

Second is Decision, how quickly the player visits process information and immediately decide what to do.

Third is Reaction Speed, how fast the nerve to give signals to the process of the brain to the muscles.

Fourth is Action Speed, how quickly the player makes the first step

Fifth is Adjustment to the Ball, tennis player the ability to make adjustments as the recipient of the ball so that it can balance the whole stroke / stroke.

It also statistical results showed that 70% lost due to the bad blow for tennis footwork is important rather than how fast you are but how quickly towards the ball arrived.
Overcome this fact can be trained, i.e. how to improving foot speed, agility, footwork patterns and changing speed endurance.

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