Tennis Shots: Topspin Forehand

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to be learning how to do topspin shots on our forehand side. Topspin is very easy to explain. The hard part; the hard part of it is feeling the ball. In tennis, it's a lot about feeling the ball. But let's go ahead and explain it. You want to have your left foot in front of you. Racquet back; you're going to be contacting the ball. Just keep it, just contact, make sure that when you contact the ball, you don't have your racquet too close yet. You're going to contact the ball as a regular shot, but it's when you're carrying the ball, that you're going to start tilting your racquet to the side and then do like a wind chill affect finishing with your shot. Let me do it again. Basically, you're going to start the same way for the forehand. Difference is that after you contact the ball, you're going to tilt your racquet just a little and finish it up with your racquet really, really tilted and that's how a forehand with spin is done."