Most comfort and widely using grip. This grip popular among beginners and advanced players because of the comfort and also players can use this grip to play backhand, volley and serve. Players can play all the strokes in one grip. This grip also called as "handshake grip” because with this grip you hold the racket as shake hands with your racket (That’s the easiest way to hold the racket with this grip). For a beginner these steps you have to follow to hold the racket in Eastern Forehand Grip,
Take and hold the racket in your left hand (or right hand if you’re a left-handed player).
Hold the racket: Face (strings) of the racket is perpendicular to the ground.
Put the palm of your free hand flat on the face of the racket.
Move your palm toward your body, down the shaft of the racket, until it hits the end of the handle.
Wrap your fingers around the handle and space them slightly apart. Your thumb and forefinger should lie almost directly on top of the handle, forming a V that point toward your right shoulder (toward your left shoulder if you're left-handed). Your thumb should lie across the top of the handle.
A Serve is the most important shot and shot to start a point in tennis. If you’re a beginner to tennis, I hope that this is the difficult shot for you, but if you mastered the serve it will be a great advantage for your game.
This is the guide and rules to introduce tennis serve and rules. Serve is the only time you get totally control of a shot. All the other shots are reactions to what you’re opponent does. So you have to take the total advantage of this shot.
1. In tennis server got two attempts to serve, if server missed two chances then server loses the point. The server should have to start the serve behind the baseline. In the first serve of the point, server starts the serve with right hand side of the centre line and each point alternatively changes the sides.
2. When you serve, you have to serve diagonally opposing service box. If you miss your first chance it will called “fault” and then you allow to serve you’re second attempt. If you miss your second chance also it called a “double fault” and point will go to your opponent.
3. When you’re serving you have to aware of where to stand while serving. If you not stand in a correct way when ball contact the racket it will be a “foot fault” (when contact the ball you should remain behind the base line or in the air). Also if your feet touch the base line it also a “foot fault”. Also if your feet ahead of centre line or side line it also a “foot fault”. Foot fault also treated as the same way that fault, If foot fault occurs in your first service you will get the second service.
4. Another rule is “let”, if your serve contact with the net and landed to correct service box it will called a “let” and you can reserve that serve, but if your serve contact with net and landed anywhere else other than service box it treated as “fault”.
5. Ultimate goal of the serve is “ACE”, if you able to serve correct service box and if your opponent couldn’t contact the ball then it called as “ACE”. So you will win a point even your opponent contact the ball.
6. Another thing, if you do not like your toss you can catch the ball in the air and again bounce and toss the ball.
If you want to play single-handed backhand shot, the grip is eastern backhand grip.This grip always teaches to tennis beginners because this is common traditional grip. To setup this grip is very easy; all you know “how to shake hands”, then you’re done.
Put your racket perpendicular to the court and then hold the racket handle as you shake hand with others. That’s it. So eastern back hand grip is same grip used in eastern forehand grip. This is the easiest way to hold racket in eastern backhand grip.
Watch the video you will learn the eastern grip in minute.
Allen Fox- Think to win is a great book for learn Tennis from beginning. The author of this book Dr.Allen Fox is a former world class tennis player. In his career he achieved NCAA championship, Wimbledon quarterfinal and 3 times member of U.S Davis cup Team. Currently he is coaching tennis and gives consultants to tennis players.
As his experience and knowledge about mind leads a new approach of winning a game. So this mainly focuses on winning strategies of a tennis game. Also this book is a mindset book for tennis player, After read this you will think in a different angle in the match like as an example this book teach you where to hit the ball, when, how hard, Which strokes to choose under what conditions, How to attack an opponent’s weaknesses and How to play percentage tennis.
Actually this book not tells you all about grip and how to swing the racket for top spin, slice, etc. As an example this book said “if the ball lands in this area you have this option, this options are high percentage and this options are low percentage” and goes into details about certain scenario.
This book is published by 1993; with length 234mm and width 188mm also weight 399g. This book contains of 208 pages and prized nearly 17$.
This Babolat Aero Pro fake racket is look so same as the original racket but there are some identified errors in Fake Babolat fake racket. When you want to buy a racket, do some research about that racket because there are so many fake stuffs at the market with very less cost.
There are some differences in fake and original
In Babolat fake aero pro racket has heavy head. But the original racket is very good balanced racket. Like in this picture in fake racket head is heavy.
In the Babolat original racket all the wording of the racket contains Silver or gleam, but in fakes the wording done in dull Grey color finish. (Including logos)
In the fake the yellow coloring is identical and the white color is brighter. But in genuine instead of white color there is a yellow mix white color.
In the fake racket the Grommets are different in color. It is black instead of Grey and very low quality. Also the pattern of the grommet is different to original racket.
In the fake racket the TM logo is inside the grommet section but in the genuine TM logo is in outer side of the frame. And also the letter “T” like in the picture in genuine the last “T” printed inner section of the grommet grooves.
In original racket the butt cap is deeper red in color and contains product code.
Also the racket covers of fake in more lightly than original. And also the label “Aero Series” is in yellow color, but in the original the word “series” in green color also much heavier than fake cover. Also the zipper of fake is noticeably thin and very low quality.
In the fake racket the specs section is out of alignment. You can see the different if fake and original in the picture.
If you already bought the racket one possible way to check “is it fake or not”. Babolat usually has two serial holograms on the racket one is in the section of racket throat and other one in the handle, only can access to it when you remove the original grip.
Playing Tennis in wind whether is very difficult task but if you take the advantage of wind it leads you to win the game easily. With the wind the game will be somewhat difficult to play, I think best way to take the advantage of wind is “stay calm” that means you have to play a brain game and play a disciplined game. You have to put more concentration to the ball.
The main reason you miss a shot in wind is your poor positioning and timing. If your body is in the right place then you can hit the ball perfectly. Best thing is your footwork use to beat wind; first read the direction of the wind and then take small steps then you can move faster and can change directions very easily because in wind the ball is going to move and it will came to the racket before you expect. Also the ball will shift. So if you want to be an aggressive player you have to prepare any whether to play tennis so keep improving your footwork and reactant speed.
In the wind, you have to adjust your shots according to the wind. Before you play the game, do some warm up practices in that weather. Also when you playing play more angle shotsand take the advantage. Also early preparation for the shot is a key thing whiles you playing in wind. Also try to play topspin shots and Drive the ball hard it’ll be helpful to you to win. Serve well and the drop shot is difficult to play in windy weather but if you able to play drop shot it’ll be more advantage for you. In wind if you missed lot of shots then play over the middle of the net. Became physically strong and keep your mind calm, then you can play smart tennis, also don’t go to play more risk shots. These tips will help you to win under windy condition.
