Tennis Drills and Practice Notes

Baseline Forehand and Backhand

There are mainly 4 types of forehand and 3 types of backhand on the baseline.

• Forehand
  • Step-in Forehand (Short balls)
  • Defensive Forehand (Deep balls)
  • Inside-out
  • Open-stance Forehand
• Backhand
  • Step-in Backhand (Short balls)
  • Defensive Backhand (Deep balls)
  • Open-stance Backhand

Generally, the keypoints of forehand:

• Close-stance forehand
  • Footwork
    • A small step on the right foot (dominant foot), then left foot step in
  • Hand
    • Racket has an afterswing
    • Thumb pointing down
    • Right foot (dominant foot) follow up to finish.
• Backhand
  • Footwork
    • A small step on the keft foot, then right foot follow up to step in
  • Hand
    • Right hand slightly rotate (like twist the throttle of the handlebar of the motorbike)
    • Racket heads down, not up
    • Racket afterswing

Volley

• Racket tilts right/left (step right/left), then left/right foot step in

Half-volley

Short-swing