How to Hit a Two-Hand Backhand in Tennis

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Lincoln Ward I'm a USPTA certified teaching pro here at Austin Texas, with Lone Star Tennis Company. Today we are going to talk about how to hit a two handed back hand ground stroke. The first thing you want to do is close your body off to the court. There's two different ways to stand in tennis. Open stance and close stance. Any time you hit a two handed back hand, you really have to stand close stance. Which means perpendicular to the baseline. When you first turn your feet sideways, your shoulders will also turn and you will turn, you'll continue turning those shoulders until you have to look over your shoulder to the tennis ball. If you are a soccer player and had a number eleven jersey on, you have eleven on the front and eleven on the back, you would want to show your opponents just one of the number ones on your back. When you go to contact the ball, you wait for the ball to bounce, step forward into the ball with your leading foot, reach forward to make contact over that foot and follow through, throwing the racket over your shoulder like a sack of potatoes. That's pretty much how you hit a back handed ground stroke in tennis. I'm Lincoln Ward thanks a lot."