Full Tennis Coaching Session: Forehand, Backhand & Serve Breakdown

Now you do this, go, yeah, my hips they go in that direction, stop, you go with your arm like this, you go this, one motion, up, down, yes. When your contact point is here, you hit the ball very good, your contact point is not always here, a lot of times it's here, here, here, here, here, so the goal is that you can always hit the ball with a contact point in front. Can you stand up, stay here, choose a flag, okay, now you do this, but with your arms, yes, don't move your head, open your eyes, open your eyes, is the flag in the middle, yes, okay, close one, close the other one, does it move? So with this, with the left eye, it's not, it's not in the center, and now it's in the center, yes, okay. There are two reasons why your contact point is moving, the first reason is the preparation, because preparation, you always start to prepare when the ball bounces, so if the ball is short, you have time, if the ball is deep, you don't have time, and you end up hitting the ball here, okay, so that's the first reason, and the second reason is because of your dominant eye, you are a lot of times with closed hands, the eye that is accurate is this one, okay, now go to closed hands, yes, now your eye is here, and the ball is here, so it's very difficult to turn your head like this, you don't actually, so you aim with the left eye, you can't be like this, because if you're like this, my head turns, you see, when you do this, your head turns, you see, your head is turning, and you need to have your head like this all the time when you hit a forehand, so this foot has to be here always, okay, here your head is in front, perfect, okay, so never ever closed hands, if you want to move forward, because the ball is short, you can go forward, but like this, never like this, okay, you understand, okay, the first thing we're going to do is prepare much earlier, so when the ball bounces, your racket goes only forward, when the ball bounces, it's not time to go back, it's time to go forward with your racket, okay, yes, yes, always here the contact point, always, let's bring the the basket first, we're going to focus on early preparation, okay, come here, just look, look, this is what you do now, okay, you start to prepare when the ball bounces, I show you again, up, boom, boom, you see, when it bounce, I only go forward, I do it again, I prepare, the ball bounce, boom, up, boom, boom, yes, very good, again, up, great, super, okay, great, very good, very good, perfect, only thing is your legs, you go like this, can you please go like this, show me, yeah, this, no, this, this foot is always here, yes, always, you see, look, I show you, when you do this, my hips, they go in that direction, you see your hips, they go in that direction, if I'm here, my hips go in that direction, so your hips have to go, to be always in front, you see your hips, move your foot here, yes, your hips now are here, okay, so not on the same line, always behind, just a bit behind, behind, no, here, yes, here, here, always like this, always, okay, you want to move here, up, you want to move here, up, but you're always here, you never close, okay, yes, yes, prepare, up, again, good, no problem, again, yes, very good, again, open, good, again, open, yes, he's gonna feed you here, here, short, deep, everything, okay, always two things, preparation and hips, open, yeah, perfect, up, prepare, prepare, too late, prepare, yes, good, good, good, good, up, up, one little detail, the moment you hit the ball, sometimes you go far here, sometimes you go short, the goal is to do the same every time, okay, and what is good, is once you are in touch with the ball, you let it go in front, far, okay, we're just going to do something to help it, you do exactly the same, but here you catch your racket here, do it again, do it again, go, go, go, go, catch it here, in front, far in front, yes, very good, let's do a few like this, far in front, far in front, good, prepare, good, prepare, very good, what was very good, I tell you again, what was very good, is you were always here, open, always, very good, preparation, first thing, ball comes up, preparation, open, and then far in front, okay, great job, up, yeah, far in front, in front, yes, again, again, yes, super, again, be careful not to go this way, okay, you need everything in the ball, all your body, can you, can you film me one, I show you one, up here, up, all my body through the ball, you see, I go this way, if you want to play here, your hand goes here, and your goes here also, everything, okay, great, again, again, again, great job, last one, be careful because your foot tends to come back here again, keep it like this, you know, always, yeah, day and night, break, first thing we're going to do, you go here, and then you stop, and then you go here, I would like to see one motion, you understand, boom, do it again, yes, I would like to see the head of the racket go, you see, up, down, boom, show me, like around, you see, yes, up, down, boom, yes, that's very good, yes, okay, let's go, up, down, yes, great, that's the one, okay, stop, good, we did some good ones, huh, yeah, exactly, give me your hands, yeah, what you do for the moment, you go here, what I would like is that the racket head is more like this, so it can go down, and here again, okay, you do a bit this, so it's difficult to accelerate, if you let it high here, it can go down and accelerate, see, high, down, boom, show me, high, down, boom, yeah, okay, okay, do it again, no, yeah, do it again, okay, lift it, push it far, far in front, yes, better, again, if it's out, it's okay, yes, again, push it far in front, yes, good, it's fine if it's out for the moment, yes, very good, come with me, you know what you're gonna have, you're gonna have both very low, and you will have to do this, you see, I stay here, and I go here, one more, no preparation, but you go here, and you go, show me, yes, yes, exactly, yes, okay, better this one, better, yes, again, very important is to stay low, because if you go here, you cannot have spin, stay low, and here, just this, no preparation, yes, again, yes, again, yes, this one is perfect, this one is very good, great job, so the hands, free, you need for the backhand, what I would like is that the hands are free, see, yes, much better, yes, yes, perfect, the acceleration comes from here, here, super, low, stay low, great, in order to have the spin, you need to let the hands go down, if they don't go down, if they stay here, boom, the ball will fly, okay, it's important, let the hands drop, drop and accelerate, drop and accelerate, drop, good job, good, again, good job, for the moment, for the moment, what you want is your ball to go like this, high, low, high, low, so you make sure you spin a lot, I'm not saying you're going to play like this, I'm just saying for the moment, that's what we need, okay, it's okay, very good, that was a great shot, again, no spin, good job, it's a good shot, so I'm not saying you have to slow down, no, no, no, don't slow down, but if you play like on a line like this, the ball is going to fly away, you don't want the ball to fly away, so drop the racket head, drop it and then you can accelerate, but down to up, the hands, okay, now spin, accelerate your hands to spin, don't jump, stay low, just the hands, just the hands, good job, good, ah, last one, here, bravo, you have two things important in tennis, power and control, because you need the ball to be in the court, good, again, very good, first you are right eye dominant, so you don't serve like this, you serve like this, you know Medvedev, Osverev, you know those two guys, right, come here, come here, when they serve, they're not here, no, you serve here, you are facing here, you toss here, you hit here, okay, come here, yeah, look, yeah, exactly, exactly, okay, okay, look, you keep your head here, you toss here and you hit in front, ready, yeah, it's slow, because yeah, you're right, you're hitting the ball here, you want to hit it here, right, but in front, not on the right, yes, okay, okay, one more, okay, now we're going to do it without the legs, you don't jump, you just serve, look at my legs, okay, like this, starting here, start here, again, and start here, but don't change your grip, okay, again, keep your toss here, this ball, your arm in front, if your arm goes here, everything turns, okay, okay, the ball has to bounce here, don't serve this one, toss and don't serve, stop, good, very good, a bit low, but very good, higher, when it goes here, the ball goes there, first and second, you turn everything and you're there, instead of being here, yeah, exactly, that's why I put my racket here, so your arm cannot go there, exactly, perfect, bravo, you shouldn't serve this one, very good, better, very good, okay, this is the game, you have to do this, okay, as you can feel, you go with your arm like this, you go this, it's just the wrist, look at my arm, didn't move, yes, so toss here, in front of you, here, and you go here, no, we start like this, you start really like this, with the arm here, just this, good one, yeah, yes, yes, very good this one, okay, yeah, yes, that's the one, that's what you're supposed to do, here, yes, don't worry, look, yes, good, yes, yes, very good, very good, you see, look, before you were doing this, now your elbow stays high, and you go there, yeah, good, okay, last four, stay in front, stay in front, yeah, here, and here, and keep your elbow high, boom, good job, yeah, we worked on this, because he used to always slice, so the racket head is going this way, and it's important, if he wants to play flat, yeah, this has to happen, and not with the arm, it's really, yeah, the elbow up, and just here, once this is done, then of course, the elbow goes down, but if he serves with the arm, it's gonna hurt his shoulder, and it's not gonna be efficient, you know, what I really like with him also, is that he really wants to understand, and to do it perfect.