In the process, we rotate through the stroke, causing it to float. This anxiousness causes us to try to see very quickly what happens with our slice. The tricky part when it comes to the backhand slice is that we often play it in defensive situations and are therefore anxious to get out of them as soon as possible. The one drill that I didn’t show in the video above but we also did quickly in a previous training session was the biting backhand slice drill which I already posted before. This again leads her in the right direction of engaging her body bio-mechanically correctly, which generates a lot of power without body rotation.Īs she starts to feel the power and starts to trust the stroke, she’ll be able to let go of the desire to turn and the desire to look too quickly after her stroke to see what happened. Probably the most important drill for developing a good backhand sliceĪt the same time, I am asking her to stay sideways and hit diagonal shots which again gives her the feel of hitting “backwards”. While her slice is not bad, it lacks penetration and doesn’t really bite through the court.
I’ve been working with Thea on the backhand slice technique recently. That unfortunately causes their shots to float too much as the racquet path through the ball is not correct. Since their body is used to rotating and they are used to getting power from rotation, they usually keep rotating somewhat even when hitting a backhand slice. This technique is especially difficult to acquire for those players who otherwise play a two-handed backhand stroke where they, of course, have to rotate their body as they execute the stroke. The backhand slice technique requires a certain mental discipline as we need to stay sideways through the shot longer than usual. The backhand slice stroke in tennis is a great stroke to have to change the rhythm of the game and to play effective, neutralizing shots from defensive situations.īut often times, the slice shot floats too much and therefore bounces too high with not enough speed, which gives your opponent enough time to set up for the shot and continue to dictate the point.
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