Forehand Topspin Placement

Moxie Patel Asked 10 years ago

Hi Alois, 

Now a days I am focusing more on placement as I find that my opponent blocks all my super fast top-spins without even moving a bit from his place. He is just standing with the racket angle tilted and don't know why but all efforts I put in making my topspin go somewhere else fail.

So, from then on I realized that I need to improve my placement skills. Now I have one problem. I am a right hander and I can make my topspin go cross court (from my forehand to my opponent's forehand) my opponent is also right hander.  I can make the ball go from my forehand to my opponents backhand.  But I cant make the ball go from my backhand to my opponents backhand with a forehand topspin or backhand topspin. 

Please help.

Thanks,

Moxie

Alois Rosario Answered 10 years ago

Hi Moxie,

Think about keeping your wrist relaxed to allow it to move backwards sand forwards to alter the placement.  You can also hit the ball a little earlier or later to adjust the positioning.

In training put some targets on the table where you want the ball to go and try to hit them.  On the backhand side hit the ball a little later when it is closer to you to get it down the line.  If you have pivoted and are playing a forehand from the backhand corner, hit it a little earlier.