here's the thing on the backhand you you have that same grip that i showed you
same grip even with your left hand
so the index finger is going to be spread from the middle finger on both hands and now here's the the
thing that i hate about all rackets is they they give you this little plastic thing and now it's
going to like hit your finger as you as you set um your left hand on the backhand grip and as you
maybe slide the hand down from the throat let's say you hold the racket like this and you slide it
down you'll be hitting that plastic thing so I always remove those okay and you can as well
if you want and get rid of it there's really no purpose to it because you got a tape there anyway
on the grip i agree okay so now you even looks a little bit like you have more space there so look
look at my hands you see my left hand you see how it's in the same position
like that now interestingly there's a little bit of a difference where i told you remember
to put the thumb on the middle finger on the right hand not on the left you won't
be able to do this on the left you got to put it on the top okay okay so left thumb hits the
pointer finger right thumb hits the middle finger remember that that's the way you want
to hold the racket on the backhand now when i saw you hit backhands there was exactly the same problem
going on as you had on the forehand you had a pretty nice finish but the racket was going here
like this and it wasn't going back enough again we have a problem with range of motion
we need that racket tip to at least go to this area right here to go back like this
now what will happen when you when you start accelerating more the racket if you start higher
is going to go down and it's going to continue to go down and forward when you start here it's
more of a rigid movement it's a much smaller area that you can work with and you get a lack of power
when you get more pace coming like on a return to serve this technique is fine you minimize
your backswing so return a serve or when you get somebody that's very hard this will work okay
but when the ball is slower you need more room back here to be able to accelerate the racket
okay here's what the adjustment i would like to make and i want you to when you take your racket
back here i'm going to set the racket for you go ahead and turn turn hold the racquet you're
going to step across a little more with that right foot yep that's fine and now what i want you to do
is extend the right arm you keep the left arm bent extend the right arm okay does it feel comfortable
it's different like this and the tip of the racket is going to be towards the
the sky like this okay at an angle not like this but like this okay at an angle okay
all right that's going to be your position the racket face does not need to be closed
it's unnecessary on the backhand you keep the racker face neutral now when also when you're
set up you want your your shoulder blade to point towards me so you want to be like this
okay let me see let me see it again like this right but extend the right arm see i feel like
you're too tight in here and you're dropping the racket to the outside that's why i want you
to extend the right arm a little bit more and don't close the racket there you should be like
both extended not that way you got to extend towards the back fence because remember we
need range of motion we just the racket is not going far back enough it's too much in this area
so extending here won't do anything you got to extend that way and don't close the racket face
keep it neutral all right like that like set it up like that we'll see what happens
on set it up just like i showed you racket up and
hold it there you can hold it there set it up right away there you go
extend the right arm a little more extend you're doing a little thing there you're extending and
right when the ball when the ball bounces you go like you do a little uh your little thing
here you know just keep the racket there okay keep the racquet there okay extend the right arm more
okay when you see extend it go ahead and put the racket back extend as you can feel you can
feel it in your back extend it you can feel it you feel it here do that i want you to hit that spot
okay we need that extension your favorite player djokovic that's how he takes it back here we go
there you go feel it in the back come on feel it in the back
okay again you went it's interesting what's happening you're going back but then when the
ball comes closer you go back back to this see here's the thing on the backhand the two-handed
backhand is a lot of people don't know this but it's one of the most complex shot in tennis
because the structures of the arm the way they're behaving throughout the stroke changes
so you're gonna start look at this start straight here with this arm bend with this arm
then you might go into a completely bent position here with both arms
and then this arm might straighten on the finish the left arm so you go from straight here bend
here straight here or you might have other arm structure there's some variations within that too
but what you want to avoid is being bent in the back because that's going to hurt your range
of motion okay okay we got to fix that so i want you to extend that right arm a little bit further
it's okay come again that was the cleanest one so far still a little twitchy back there come again
stay there best one so far do it again that was really twitchy do you feel it a little bit there's
a lot the twitch is in the back when when you get ready to swing forward you do a little twitch
so you want me to go here i want you to see when you straight see here's what's going to
happen here watch put your racket back the racket will need to drop okay so you just wait longer in
this position and initiate the drop and just let it go okay when you let it go it's gonna
be correct but unfortunately you stay in here and then you very close to the ball uh bouncing
you do like a little little move where you twitch and you bend the arms you'll see it on camera
all right so you keep the arm straight as long as possible as soon as you
as you feel the racket dropping you just accelerate and don't move from there and
don't worry about it anymore just make sure you finish all the way stay there you go that's it
it looks almost like a leyton hewitt backhand you probably don't know who leighton hewitt is
a little twitch there again come again it's not bad
here we go back come on take it back as far as you can come on
extend the arm there's still a little twitch there come again
yes i love that one now we're talking look at this backhand so clean
better and last one right here match point
okay that looks so much better can you remember to do this all right so um one thing that's
missing here slide over towards me a little bit take your racket back so right now you're going
to extend this arm so right now you're going here and then forward so with time when you get
more acceleration and when you actually start loosening the arms a little bit because what i
find with big muscles the most difficult shot to execute with big muscles is a two-handed backhand
do you feel like sometimes tight in here you do feel it because if you look at like some the best
two-handed backhands there's a lot of skinny guys like djokovic like that there's a lot of skinny
guys there so because the arms are going to be bent bending here i feel like with muscles it's
a little bit tougher to bring it around so what i'm saying is that eventually when the racket
when you get better at this when you get more acceleration i'll show you what the racket is going
to do extend the arm so it's going to go from here here here it's going to drop and it's going to go
here and it's going to go all the way over here to the point where your elbow is pointing backwards
now here rotate all the way more more rotate more okay does it feel uncomfortable
yeah okay so you're going to have to build up the tennis specific range of motion on this particular
shot like i said sometimes with muscles it's a little bit more difficult the two-handed backhand but
let me show you it's very similar to a golf swing watch racket's gonna go here here here
and now it's gonna go here and i'll watch this here you see this elbow all the way back my
chest is now pointed here so i started from here and i ended up here that's a two-handed backhand
your backhand unfortunately just like a forehand often before it was going from here
and then stopping here and the arms were kind of taken over like this so we're gonna it's gonna get
a lot better okay but the step one is we have to fix your your take back okay i didn't like
that backhand you see went back to the old way it was like this here extend the arm more extend
there's still a little twitch back there keep the arm more straight like this okay
straighten it more straighten the right arm more better yes get the racket further back come
see this is not enough i want the racket to go towards the back fence okay
better
better now let me see one where you rotate a little more you get
your right elbow towards the back fence like this right elbow towards the back fence
get the racket pointing straight towards the back fence like this
better
more it's not enough here it's here come good again come on all the way back better
way better
much much better very good