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Lawn Tennis: Basic Skills

This document provides an overview of the basic skills and strokes in lawn tennis, including the serve, forehand, backhand, volley, and overhead. It emphasizes the importance of mastering basic techniques and knowing your own body and abilities. For each stroke, it highlights key components such as footwork, racket preparation, and balance. It also notes that the forehand is usually a player's strongest shot and discusses the differences between one-handed and two-handed backhands.

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Lawn Tennis: Basic Skills

This document provides an overview of the basic skills and strokes in lawn tennis, including the serve, forehand, backhand, volley, and overhead. It emphasizes the importance of mastering basic techniques and knowing your own body and abilities. For each stroke, it highlights key components such as footwork, racket preparation, and balance. It also notes that the forehand is usually a player's strongest shot and discusses the differences between one-handed and two-handed backhands.

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LAWN TENNIS

Basic skills
For anyone who wants to start playing tennis, it’s important to know all
the different ways you can hit the ball over the net. And for any who have
played – whether you’re still a beginner or a competitive player – there are
always ways to improve your technique.
It’s important to know the basic tennis strokes because this is the
foundation of your on-court game. How you’re able to generate power and hone
in your accuracy is going to play a huge role in how practice or a match will go.

Serve
We wouldn’t be able to have tennis without the serve – it’s the start of
everything! The general idea when it comes to the use of your body to make a
serve happen will generally be the same, but it’s also important to know your
body, what works well, and what doesn’t work as well for you specifically.
Anyone can tell you that the most frustrating part of an unsuccessful
serve is hitting the ball straight into the net. This video will help you prevent
that from happening more times than not.
Forehand
A player’s forehand is usually their strongest shot on the tennis court.
Why is that? Well, it’s because this particular stroke typically involves a
player’s dominant hand doing most of the work. Other key components of a
successful forehand stroke are to have sound footwork, make sure your racket
is prepared for impact, and to stay balanced.
There’s no tennis player on the planet that doesn’t want their forehand to
be both effortless and powerful.
Backhand
There are two variations of a backhand – a one-handed shot and two-
handed shot.
One-handed backhands typically provide you with longer reach, while
also being the best way to handle shots coming into your body. On the other
side of the coin, two-handed backhands provide more control and stability. It’s
also common for players to have an easier time successfully hitting high balls
with this variation.

Not sure which one is the best fit for you? Try them both out! That’s the only
way you’ll know which one feels the most natural. Once you get the form down
of the one you like the most, you’re able to add things, like some topspin.
Volley
The keys to successfully volleying a ball back over the net is to have a
compact backswing while making sure you’re making contact with the ball in
front (and to the side) of your body, along with maintaining sound footwork.
Most of the work comes before the actual shot, so it’s imperative that you put
yourself in the proper positioning.
Overhead
Last but most certainly not least, we have the overhead stroke, which
looks very similar to a serve. The main differences, though, are that you don’t
need to toss a tennis ball up in the air and it requires more footwork. To make
contact with the ball in your ideal strike zone – which will be the same place it
is for your serve – you must be able to anticipate where the ball is going to be
so you’re able to get into position.

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