Good athletes are often credited with having “good hands.” The awareness of your hands is especially important while playing tennis. To improve your tennis skills, challenge yourself to know what your hands are doing at all times in the contact area.
1. Are you lengthening the contact area with your hands or blocking the ball without any swing?
2. Another important consideration for your hands is whether your contact area is in front of you or behind your body.
3. Your hands have the greatest influence. Where your racket face is is pointing, toward the left, right, upward, or downward can affect the result.
4. The grip pressure of your hand at contact can vary greatly from very firm to a softer grip and even almost loose enough to slip out of your hand to accomplish very short or angled shots.
5. Lastly, your hand’s path in the contact area can be low to high, slightly high to low, and level.
It’s easy to get caught up worrying about your entire body while playing but key in more on what your hands are doing to become a better tennis player.
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