As someone who's routinely putting out weekly videos, the fact that Vincent did this in a single and continuous take is pretty remarkable. Most of us use jump cuts or multi-camera angles to break up mistakes, stuttering, or to clean up "uhhhhs" and "ummmms". Well done! This is one of the best explanations I've seen for the single-handed backhand. Vincent, I'd love if you could do some analysis of some of the classic one-handed backhand grips that have been on the tour and compare them, notably, Roger Federer, Stan Warwrinka, Gustavo Kuerten, Justine Henin, Nicolás Almagro, etc. This might give us a nice cross section of more extreme vs. closer to continental grips for the one-hander could look like. I'd also love any tutorials you can provide on return of serve with the one-hander, there's not a lot of content out there for this shot.
6:20 is by far the best instruction on how to make contact with the ball one handed. I am wayyyyy more consistent with that tip. That tip alone made a HUGE difference
I saw and attended a hell of a lot of classes. I must admit that you have done an amazing job of analyzing and explaining tennis technique. Keep going.
Great video overall, love seeing young guys have a good bead on the one handed backhand. One thing…the more western you go on the grip, the earlier you’ll need to contact the ball…eastern gives you more time (Federer has a grip that is just strong of Eastern). His grip buys him time and you can still hit huge topspin.
Excellent lesson on technique!!I had a really good backhand when played college, it is not that good at age 72, I saw my issue in your lesson. Many thanks!!
Wow!! Simply the best video I have seen on the one-handed backhand. So concise and to the point you did exactly what you set out to do. I haven't even practiced what you just explained but already my backhand feels better
Great tips, Vincent, thanks a lot! I'm definitely guilty of opening up my body instead of remaining side on, and my wrist is too loose and not upright as you pointed out in your video. Even though I'm conscious of these bad habits it's been difficult to change but I will keep on trying. Thanks again and look forward to more videos similar to this one.
Incredible video, great channel man. regarding the grip, I feel wawrinka often uses weak eastern and dmitrov even more odd continental for topspin 1hbh but that is rare lol
Tsitsipas = incredible player and phenomenal back hand!! Vincent, I took your instructions to the court yesterday - I was blown away. I no longer have excess complication in my stroke and the ball goes exactly as you described with clean contact every time. Thank you so much for breaking this down :) You rock !!
Excellent video, thank you. It would be great if you could do a video on the timing. I think the hardest part of the OHBH is getting the timing of the unit turn and swing correct in order to hit the correct contact point. Subb'd.
Great video. Do you have some advice on timing the ball when hitting it on the rise, especially when the ball is fast and one cannot get close enough to the bounce? Thanks in advance.
You probably need to be more specific in terms of the spin used and at what depth and height the incoming ball is. But if you're saying you can get close to the ball, you can always slice it back
People do not realize the effects of a topspin backhand as you get older in tennis tournaments. The hard shot at waist height is easy to slice back, Nay Nay the topspin!! Also discuss slice and placements! Thanks!
Stan’s bh grip is a modified eastern grip. His knuckles are closer to the continental bevel and his heelpad is on the semi western bevel. If you’re thinking of semi western topspin bh, you’re thinking of Gasquet.
For normal backhand topspin, I use the normal topspin Grip which I think is semi western, but for my SLICE Backhand its a totally different beast.. For Slice backhand I am much more extreme in my grip for my backhand slice so I have the thumb on the side bevel and the palm on the top bevel to access this extreme area that allows me to really flatten out the ball and that turns my racquet all up on it edge with the strings close near the body. When I use that extreme flat grip then I can access the higher part of the racquet to drive the ball and that allows me to drive the ball anywhere from 10-100 mph staying deep and low all through the court because I'm using the fastest part of the racquet to drive the ball from which is the bottom tip of the racquet.. So I lead with the bottom edge of the racquet to slice drive the ball. Because with this grip I swing also low to high to generate the buggy whip magnus force effect on the ball to make the ball dip low over the netcord just like with a normal flat topspin drive except its a slice drive with a buggy whip but it looks very similar to a big flat topspin drive except the ball is much more flatter and lower down in the court. And because its got more longer lengths than the normal topspin ball, it goes much more deeper into the court. The ball either stays flat and skids low all through the court or it swings away low on the bounce..
@@germanslice Cool, thanks for sharing. So which bevel number is your first knuckle on when doing a slice? Also a semi-western OHBH would mean that your first knuckle is on bevel number 8. In case you’re not familiar with bevel numbers, when you hold a serve grip, first knuckle is on bevel number 2, and it goes clockwise until bevel number 8.
@@ryanyimsize Well I have two different slice drives. The normal way High down to low. I use this one for returning difficult wide balls. But the second slice drive I use allows low to high using the racquet's edge and the grip for that one is Thumb at 6 O'Clock and Knuckles are all on 12 and 1 O'clock, not sure what this grip is, for I use a pretty extreme grip... if anyone knows what grip this is let me know. I use this for doing big flat penetrating slice groundstrokes and use it also for the return of serve... I also use the Carioca Footwork pattern for the slice.
Hello… In the “tips” section, you explain about keeping the wrist upright for more leverage…. I don’t understand what you mean… I thought for topspin the racquet head starts below the ball and lifts up… how can you do that with an upright wrist position??
Just bought the course so you may answer this in there but - on the windshield wiper: the ball is struck AFTER the shoulder starts to turn over right? Otherwise, there would be no purpose to the windshield wiper.
I'm little bit confused, do you suggest firm wrist on one handed backhand cause some coaches are saying to loose it so to generate more speed and spin?
@@phyotennis7462 strive to hit it like fed instead of tsitsipas then. tsitsipas just runs around most of his backhands and when he does hit a backhand its his trademark shank to the moon shot
@@iagree4686 lol, I don’t think you know who you are talking to. I am 41 yr old and I will be lucky to have a consistency of junior age of 11 to 13. Let alone hit like Fed. But I think we can both agree that working on fundamentals of foot work, early unit turn and weight transfer etc can help improve tennis in general.
@@rodrigoodonsalcedocisneros9266 don’t we all love to hit like them. I will be happy to keep the ball in the court at this stage. But I love both of their backhand. Guesquet have more top spin I think, and Stan have such upper body strength to hit such a powerful strokes.
This video is for the avid recreational player which I am. However the follow through that is shown is not what advance players do! Their racquet head goes way beyond the back of their heads & the shoulders are parallel facing the net at the finish ala Musetti, Dimitrov & even Tsitsipas!
Tsitsipas's OBH looks the weakest out of all top 50 ATP players with a OBH at the moment. Musetti's look much stronger, so does Shapovalov's. Something to do with the grip. I wish more tennis channels take Justine Henin's backhand as an example, as I have yet to see an ATP player hit with that much variety and penetration as Justine did during much of her career.
The balls coming at Justine’s BH back in the days is probably less than half the pace ATP players get to their BH these days. Tsitsipas’s OHBH is the most consistent OHBH on tour right now even if it isn’t a weapon, it keeps Tsitsipas in the game. At least he can defend and stay in the rally with the hardest-hitters with it. Shapo and Musetti may have better attacking OHBHs but the second their BH gets targetted it’s over.
Actually you shouldn’t lift yourself as you’re hitting the ball as you’re doing when you’re explaining the shot. If you look at the slow motion of one handed shots, including yours in the beginning, as soon as you make contact with the ball you’re body is supposed to get closer to the ground or go down. It’s like a compression towards the ground that creates the leverage to lift the ball up and out. That’s why they say , “stay under the ball” on both one and 2 handed backhand. You see pros even with their heads ducking down.
Can not believe someone recommends hitting a OHBH like Tsitsipas. That is his weakness. Many times that shot lands short, he barely can flatten it or hit it parallel to the line, and his slice is weak
its funny because your backhand is probably better than his. His is not only unpleasant to look at, but its probaby the worst 1H backhand in the top 100 currently, or tightly competing for it.
LOL! 😂 His BH is pretty but ineffective! It's too loopy! He needs to flatten it out & drive the ball ala Thiem or Wawrinka. Defensively it's not great as well because his slice is almost non existent! His game has regressed because of it & players know his weakness. IMHO!🤔
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As someone who's routinely putting out weekly videos, the fact that Vincent did this in a single and continuous take is pretty remarkable. Most of us use jump cuts or multi-camera angles to break up mistakes, stuttering, or to clean up "uhhhhs" and "ummmms". Well done! This is one of the best explanations I've seen for the single-handed backhand. Vincent, I'd love if you could do some analysis of some of the classic one-handed backhand grips that have been on the tour and compare them, notably, Roger Federer, Stan Warwrinka, Gustavo Kuerten, Justine Henin, Nicolás Almagro, etc. This might give us a nice cross section of more extreme vs. closer to continental grips for the one-hander could look like. I'd also love any tutorials you can provide on return of serve with the one-hander, there's not a lot of content out there for this shot.
6:20 is by far the best instruction on how to make contact with the ball one handed. I am wayyyyy more consistent with that tip. That tip alone made a HUGE difference
Best one handed backhand video ever
amazing - seriously one of the best tennis instruction videos i've seen!!!
I saw and attended a hell of a lot of classes. I must admit that you have done an amazing job of analyzing and explaining tennis technique. Keep going.
This man duplicated subscriber in one day keep it up bro
Danke!
Excellent video! But I think Musetti has the best technic nowadays among younger top players.
Thank you again. Fully watched as always. Anxious to play again. 👍
Great video overall, love seeing young guys have a good bead on the one handed backhand. One thing…the more western you go on the grip, the earlier you’ll need to contact the ball…eastern gives you more time (Federer has a grip that is just strong of Eastern). His grip buys him time and you can still hit huge topspin.
Thank you for the advice. I will practice standing sideways with my one handed backhands as you showed.
Excellent instruction, thank you!
One of the most articulate explanations of what not to do out there.
😂
I watch instructional videos ALL THE TIME. This guy is very good!!!!! Thanks so much....
Excellent lesson on technique!!I had a really good backhand when played college, it is not that good at age 72, I saw my issue in your lesson. Many thanks!!
im new to tennis - but this guy make more sense than the Patrick old man guy, also beat my club instructor too.. well done man!
Someone finally tells me why The Non-Dominant arm elbow should be at 90 degrees. Great stuff.
Tennis is a sport of a lifetime. This video will help keep the interest in a great sport of a lifetime.
Precise and to the point technically correct. I seem to improve like within 5mins. Thanks bro. Best tennis channel. Stopped following others.
Wow!! Simply the best video I have seen on the one-handed backhand. So concise and to the point you did exactly what you set out to do. I haven't even practiced what you just explained but already my backhand feels better
I can't wait to try the grip change that you recommend.
Thanks. Really clear and helpful. We are all unique but understanding the mechanics is great. 😊
Great presentation.
excellent tip...very thorough review of a one hand backhand!! thank you!
Great tips, Vincent, thanks a lot! I'm definitely guilty of opening up my body instead of remaining side on, and my wrist is too loose and not upright as you pointed out in your video. Even though I'm conscious of these bad habits it's been difficult to change but I will keep on trying. Thanks again and look forward to more videos similar to this one.
very systematic ....good instruction. pls keep on systematic on other videos.
Bro you are good, i thought I've heard everything, but i heard something new today. And you explained well
Excellent video.
You are de best. Tennis Doctor, of course. Thanks
Incredible video, great channel man. regarding the grip, I feel wawrinka often uses weak eastern and dmitrov even more odd continental for topspin 1hbh but that is rare lol
been having alot of trouble with my OHB thanks for all these tips
your tips are incredible
Great explanations! Thanks!
Great video!
100% agree with all your advice, great video, thanks for sharing
Tsitsipas = incredible player and phenomenal back hand!! Vincent, I took your instructions to the court yesterday - I was blown away. I no longer have excess complication in my stroke and the ball goes exactly as you described with clean contact every time. Thank you so much for breaking this down :) You rock !!
Great Lesson Again! so didactic, i did learn new things. now, i want to practice it
Excellent video, thank you. It would be great if you could do a video on the timing. I think the hardest part of the OHBH is getting the timing of the unit turn and swing correct in order to hit the correct contact point. Subb'd.
Very useful content, thank you
Another great tutorial. Are you changing grip before the unit turn or just twisting the grip?
great video, thank you ! You described all my failures perfectly ! 😂😉
great explanation!👏🏼
Great video. Do you have some advice on timing the ball when hitting it on the rise, especially when the ball is fast and one cannot get close enough to the bounce? Thanks in advance.
You probably need to be more specific in terms of the spin used and at what depth and height the incoming ball is. But if you're saying you can get close to the ball, you can always slice it back
Great job!
Great video. How do you adjust one handed for an approach shot ?
Thanks for the excellent content! I've learned (and already tested!) a lot!
Thanks for having the mic!
People do not realize the effects of a topspin backhand as you get older in tennis tournaments. The hard shot at waist height is easy to slice back, Nay Nay the topspin!! Also discuss slice and placements! Thanks!
Great video. I'm liking your channel
Nice!!
Can you show how the racket rotate or swinging up in slow motion
Stan’s bh grip is a modified eastern grip. His knuckles are closer to the continental bevel and his heelpad is on the semi western bevel.
If you’re thinking of semi western topspin bh, you’re thinking of Gasquet.
For normal backhand topspin, I use the normal topspin Grip which I think is semi western, but for my SLICE Backhand its a totally different beast.. For Slice backhand I am much more extreme in my grip for my backhand slice so I have the thumb on the side bevel and the palm on the top bevel to access this extreme area that allows me to really flatten out the ball and that turns my racquet all up on it edge with the strings close near the body. When I use that extreme flat grip then I can access the higher part of the racquet to drive the ball and that allows me to drive the ball anywhere from 10-100 mph staying deep and low all through the court because I'm using the fastest part of the racquet to drive the ball from which is the bottom tip of the racquet.. So I lead with the bottom edge of the racquet to slice drive the ball. Because with this grip I swing also low to high to generate the buggy whip magnus force effect on the ball to make the ball dip low over the netcord just like with a normal flat topspin drive except its a slice drive with a buggy whip but it looks very similar to a big flat topspin drive except the ball is much more flatter and lower down in the court. And because its got more longer lengths than the normal topspin ball, it goes much more deeper into the court. The ball either stays flat and skids low all through the court or it swings away low on the bounce..
@@germanslice Cool, thanks for sharing. So which bevel number is your first knuckle on when doing a slice?
Also a semi-western OHBH would mean that your first knuckle is on bevel number 8.
In case you’re not familiar with bevel numbers, when you hold a serve grip, first knuckle is on bevel number 2, and it goes clockwise until bevel number 8.
@@ryanyimsize
Well I have two different slice drives. The normal way High down to low. I use this one for returning difficult wide balls.
But the second slice drive I use allows low to high using the racquet's edge and the grip for that one is Thumb at 6 O'Clock and Knuckles are all on 12 and 1 O'clock, not sure what this grip is, for I use a pretty extreme grip... if anyone knows what grip this is let me know.
I use this for doing big flat penetrating slice groundstrokes and use it also for the return
of serve...
I also use the Carioca Footwork pattern for the slice.
Fantastic video and contents, but sound quality is bad... Hope it gets better!
Hello… In the “tips” section, you explain about keeping the wrist upright for more leverage…. I don’t understand what you mean… I thought for topspin the racquet head starts below the ball and lifts up… how can you do that with an upright wrist position??
great coaching! show some shots at the end as example :)
Just bought the course so you may answer this in there but - on the windshield wiper: the ball is struck AFTER the shoulder starts to turn over right? Otherwise, there would be no purpose to the windshield wiper.
Good morning Vincent
Could you make a video about the 2 handed backhand?
Thanks from France 😉
Video otw
I'm little bit confused, do you suggest firm wrist on one handed backhand cause some coaches are saying to loose it so to generate more speed and spin?
Nice video
I'm not sure anybody really wants to hit this like Tsitsipas.
Bro unless you can hit like Fed, Tsitspas back hand is more than good enough for most of us.
@@phyotennis7462 strive to hit it like fed instead of tsitsipas then. tsitsipas just runs around most of his backhands and when he does hit a backhand its his trademark shank to the moon shot
@@iagree4686 lol, I don’t think you know who you are talking to. I am 41 yr old and I will be lucky to have a consistency of junior age of 11 to 13. Let alone hit like Fed. But I think we can both agree that working on fundamentals of foot work, early unit turn and weight transfer etc can help improve tennis in general.
@@phyotennis7462Actually, everybody should aim for Wawrinka or Gascquet.
@@rodrigoodonsalcedocisneros9266 don’t we all love to hit like them. I will be happy to keep the ball in the court at this stage. But I love both of their backhand. Guesquet have more top spin I think, and Stan have such upper body strength to hit such a powerful strokes.
This video is for the avid recreational player which I am. However the follow through that is shown is not what advance players do! Their racquet head goes way beyond the back of their heads & the shoulders are parallel facing the net at the finish ala Musetti, Dimitrov & even Tsitsipas!
Hopefully after I studied this video and improve my one hand backhand, the ball won't reach the stratosphere no more 😮💨
very clearly explained comparing to my club pro, whom I paid lots of $ 😀👍
Quite contradictory that the advice is to stay sideways when striking the ball but he opened up when hitting balls at the start of the video. 🙃
Yes, it really is that difficult
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Any reasons in choosing a One Handed BH over a 2 Handed BH?
Great question...I'll follow up with a video
Soper!
Tsitsipas's OBH looks the weakest out of all top 50 ATP players with a OBH at the moment. Musetti's look much stronger, so does Shapovalov's. Something to do with the grip. I wish more tennis channels take Justine Henin's backhand as an example, as I have yet to see an ATP player hit with that much variety and penetration as Justine did during much of her career.
The balls coming at Justine’s BH back in the days is probably less than half the pace ATP players get to their BH these days.
Tsitsipas’s OHBH is the most consistent OHBH on tour right now even if it isn’t a weapon, it keeps Tsitsipas in the game. At least he can defend and stay in the rally with the hardest-hitters with it.
Shapo and Musetti may have better attacking OHBHs but the second their BH gets targetted it’s over.
Actually you shouldn’t lift yourself as you’re hitting the ball as you’re doing when you’re explaining the shot. If you look at the slow motion of one handed shots, including yours in the beginning, as soon as you make contact with the ball you’re body is supposed to get closer to the ground or go down. It’s like a compression towards the ground that creates the leverage to lift the ball up and out. That’s why they say , “stay under the ball” on both one and 2 handed backhand. You see pros even with their heads ducking down.
I believe that grip is called an eastern backhand grip, not western
thanks for the sharing. However, single handed backhand spin stroke does not close the racquet face to Pat the dog.
the teacher has a great one hander but why would we want to hit one like tsitsipas. he has one of the weakest backhands on tour
Wordy yet Informative but Thank you.
Ok, I will stay sideways. I will inform you of the results.
Can not believe someone recommends hitting a OHBH like Tsitsipas. That is his weakness. Many times that shot lands short, he barely can flatten it or hit it parallel to the line, and his slice is weak
Why Tsitsipas? I've never considered him to have a great backhand, especially compared to Wawrinka, Gasquet, or Fed.
Teaching others as a coach yourself is good but attacked other coaches should be avoided.
Bro why will u suggest the weakest backhand on tour
its funny because your backhand is probably better than his. His is not only unpleasant to look at, but its probaby the worst 1H backhand in the top 100 currently, or tightly competing for it.
i would prefer like thiem... tsitsipas bh is not that good.
Why hit like tsitsipas , hit like ur own way
LOL! 😂 His BH is pretty but ineffective! It's too loopy! He needs to flatten it out & drive the ball ala Thiem or Wawrinka. Defensively it's not great as well because his slice is almost non existent! His game has regressed because of it & players know his weakness. IMHO!🤔
but tsitsipas' backhand is definitely not a good stroke
too much explination ....please do the actual thing
Tsitsipas has the worst backhand in top 20 by far. Everybody tries to sttack him there
To hit backhand like Tsitsipas, are you seriously?😅
step one: learn twohanded backhand :D
dsont do it. his backhand is kinda crap.
Who wants to hit backhand like Tsitsipas? He doesn’t even have a decent backhand
lol Tsitsipas backhand sucks actually.