How To Hit The Perfect Open Stance Backhand in Tennis 🎾

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 - https://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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