Today I would like to help you help yourself.
I will try to go back to basics and help you understand why the ball comes out of the
racket with certain characteristics. Why is it time why's it spinning?
Why is it going in a certain direction? Well basically everything goes down to
three variables: the path of your swing, Am I swinging low to high, high to low,
what is the angle of my swing. What is my racket doing a contact? In which way is it pointing?
is it pointing left, right, up, down, parallel? And how fast is it traveling? Those three
variables basically sent a ball with certain characteristics. if you want the
ball to come out of the racket differently you're gonna have to change
one of those variables or all the variables or the combination. So the answer is
always all or in one of those variables. So let's say that you're hitting the ball
high and far out. What can you change? Well you could change the racket at contact. You can close is
so the ball doesn't go that high or you could change the angle of the racket. Don't
swing low to high so much, swing a little bit more level. Or you can change the
speed. Any of those things is going to help you keep the ball in. So you need to
experiment a little bit. You need to figure out okay if the ball is going left
that means it's pointing, my racket is pointing there at contact. So how do I
make it point in the direction where I want my ball to go? Do I need to turn more?
Do I need to open my wrist more? What can I do to achieve that? Look at the answer
in any of those three variables. An interesting drill is to try to change
one of the variables every time while keeping the other two
variables constant. So for instance you swing and you try to keep your path,
the constant, your speed of the swing constant but change you angle a contact:
close it, parallel to net or open it, and take a look at the results.
Another option is keeping your racket head position at contact
constant, your swings speed constant but changing: more low to high
less low to high, high to low and see exactly what happens. Other option
obviously is keeping the angle, keeping the racquet head at contact position and changing
the speed of the swing. if I swing low high, keep my racket parallel to net,
do it slowly, my ball is probably gonna roll and it is going to bounce right
in front of me. But if I could do exactly the same thing
fast, I'm gonna hit a very nice topspin shot over the net.
So next time you are the court experiment with those three variables:
speed of the racket, path of the racket and racquet position at
contact, and you will start understanding much better what you can
change to hit better shot.