there was a time not too long ago when i used to dote on your videos, tomaz - used to shadow practice in my small room and try to transfer the lessons on court. and then on march 13 of this year, i was playing in our local club and that ended with a grade 1 ankle sprain and a ligament tear thereby rendering me not fit to play tennis for at least the next 3 months. but even sitting here in my room, i feel like i vicariously learn and experience the joy of tennis by merely watching your videos. your passion, your simplicity, your style of delivery, the lessons, tips & insights are always of great quality. there's a lot to learn from you - tennis and otherwise and i would love to meet you in person someday.
Thank you very much for the wonderful feedback! You can do a lot for the stroke technique by visualizing, practicing in front of the mirror and slowly shadow swinging. I learned my stroke technique in front of the mirror, I practiced many years in front of it and copying the shape of strokes I saw on TV. No internet yet at those times...
@@feeltennis respect to your dedication, passion, love towards the sport and doing such an hardpassionate work in hoping of for the better future ! Thank you Tomas love from India ❤️❤️❤️💯🔥👍
Thanks so much! I learned tennis on my own and started watching some videos online but it wasn't until I stumbled on to your videos that I feel like I'm really beginning to understand the reason behind what I m supposed to do. Your simple but logical explanations along w training tips are really beginning to make a difference in my game. Truly appreciate it!
Thanks so much. I have seen so much video teaching how to do a single backhand. Some are totally crap using pro as example and the way they teach is not practical at all. You are spot on, we are social player and we have not went to such an intensive training and no way we can play just like them. By far you are the only one who teaches how how to handle different shot to the backhand whereas the rest are just teaching how to hit with single backhand. This help a lot. Thank You so much. This really really helps.
I have noticed that Tomaz is a great coach who always comes up with specific tips to solve common problems encountered by tennis players. Many thanks for the great video!
High backhands you’re almost swiping sideways, just spinning it back deep to your opponent’s court. It’s not an offensive shot, just trying to get the ball deep back so you can get back in position, and not give your opponent a meatball shot to crush
This is probably one of the most pragmatic and helpful videos for 1HBH. A tip for dealing with tricky high balls on the BH side is the only thing missing. Great job!
There's really no tip for that except you have to time the bounce so that you can strike it in front of your body from about waste to shoulder height. If you let it bounce to your head, it's too late. So you have only three choices: Time the bounce so you can hit in front, from waste to shoulder height. This could mean you have to take it on the rise, or back up until it drops, if you have room to back up. If you have no time to move, and the ball is deep at base line, you might have to do a half volley, as he showed earlier. And, lastly, if you're caught in no man land, which tends to happen quite often in double, you'll have to take it from the air, again, timing the drop to hit at around chest to shoulder height. None of this is easy, but I'd rather take one of these options and miss but feel good than being pushed out of position and either miss or give the opponent a short ball to attack.
Absolutely perfect tips , very precise teaching on creating topspin arc n short cross court angles . I am watching his videos since 2014 n every time find them very relevant n updated.
The one hand backhand has a long follow through towards the target, for power and control. The windup should be more compact, the more pace youre getting from your opponents ball, and then you can take the ball on the rise on your front foot or back up and let the ball drop back into your strikezone, if your opponent is hitting a heavy kicking topspin ball thats hard to time on the rise.
Excellent Tips!! I really like the way you explain the wrong way and the right way and also demonstrate and shot them from different camera angles. Thank you Thomas!
Thanks for your informative videos. You are my only coach. I started watching in June and have been gradually progressing. I tried signing up for the above course, but could not enter my name and email.
Thank you Tomaz for this for this priceless content. It would help me a lot, and I think for all of us, how to deal with high balls. Personally, it seems to me the hardest thing
My 1HBH is pretty advanced, but just like other parts of my game, when something basic breaks down, the whole house of cards comes falling down. You’re the best coach for getting me back to basics to figure out what that Level 2 or 3 technique break down is causing my Level 4 or 5 to fail. Amazing coach, well done!!
Great tip! I struggle with fast and deep balls going to my one hand backhand and I end up holding the racquet with both hands to counter it. I will try it next time im on the court.
I was so tired of watching tutorials of people who don't have a clue of 1hbh. Thanks for this 5 tools you gave us. I can tell you are a very good teacher. Thanks for this video.
Thank you, even just "slow down your follow-through" tip is likely worth more than 10.000 dollars if you practice and ingrain it into your subconscious.
Sir, I am a recreational player, I have been playing with a slow tennis ball that is Artengo TB 120 which has less bounce. Please suggest a ball which I should go with now. Thank you.
Thank you for the instruction. Do you have a suggestion for improving timing aside from practice, practice. The velocity of the incoming ball could be anywhere on a range of velocities. The idea of using a shortened swing for fast balls is good. What about other parts of the range? Some adjustable rhythm is necessary.
The key to timing the ball well is to imagine a zone in front of you where you will intercept the ball. See this video on forehand concepts, it's the 2nd one: th-cam.com/video/5LOKkHpFpFU/w-d-xo.html
Hi Tomaz. Thank you so much. I'm having trouble handling high neutral balls (shoulder height or a little higher). How do you neutralize those shots? Thank you 🙏
Tomaz.....fabulous video and great teaching technique.....I have just one question which is...what grip do you use for your one handed backhand?.......thanks in advance and greetings from Brisbane..........Edit....as a new subscriber I just caught your explanation on the grip....so thanks Tomaz.
Really great video answered a lot of questions I had when receiving a fast ball on the backhand. One question I have is: how do you deal with the one handed backhand when you're so rushed by a deep fast ball that you don't have time for that last step to get your right leg in front & across? Do you just have to accept that you've been outdone or is there a way to scramble the ball deep enough to have time to reset?
I try by all means to get my racket behind the incoming ball and slice it using arm action with my legs bends of course. This stroke requires good core muscles and fit legs but it is an arm shot so you have fewer moving body parts basically just your arm and a bit of the hip or core rotation but the arm does 90% of keeping the ball floating over the net to keep the point alive. I hope this was helpful, it works for me.
Thank you for an excellent lesson on one-handed backhand. My problem is turning my shoulders. I just can't seem to do it instinctively. As a consequence, I am always late.
The follow through is good for control of direction. Besides that, when hitting down the line and cross court, isn't it also concerns the striking of the ball at a different point? For the cross court shot, isn't the contact is slightly on the outside of the ball.
Well, you can say the contact is a bit outside of the ball for cross court shots but that happens automatically if you hit the ball more in front. So I focus on hitting the ball earlier and imagine hitting the ball cross and the outside contact just happens. I would prefer not to make the "outside contact" a conscious thing because it is in my view a consequence and not a cause.
Yes, that could help, experiment with it. But I would always start with the ball flight visualization first without telling your body what to do and see if it can figure out the solution. Only if after a while you cannot hit the ball that you want would I look to do technical changes. You can very quickly fall into overthinking and that can just go downhill...
Great video and teaching, as always! One question: how to deal with very low straight balls (below knee height)? I always fail to hit this balls (they end up at the net in a straight line trajectory) and end up recurring to the slice once i see a low ball.
Hi, maybe you don't go down to the ball enough with your legs / knees but you bend your upper body to reach a low ball. Those will tend to go in the net. Another reason could be that you're hitting them too late.
Having started tennis late in life and having chosen the one-handed backhand felt like a persecuted minority. But your videos are so logical and explanatory. I love it. Please can you do a video on when you have set up for the back hand topspin drive but the ball is too uncomfortable and you want to slice it. When do I change the grip to continental? Why can’t I slice with my eastern backhand grip. Too much to do!!
You probably decide too late whether you will hit topspin or slice. The grip changes the moment you know whether it's topspin or slice and that should be by the time the ball is over the net - and of course well before it bounces on your side. Just keep playing as much tennis as you can and you will get better at reading the incoming ball.
@@feeltennis I am 50 now so the only thing that stops me from playing more and more is that I like to wait till my muscles are fully healed before I am ready for the next round. Therefore I am playing only twice a week. I also go to the empty court in my apartment and hit baskets of balls and try to serve on my own. I watch more videos than I actually play 😁😂.
there was a time not too long ago when i used to dote on your videos, tomaz - used to shadow practice in my small room and try to transfer the lessons on court. and then on march 13 of this year, i was playing in our local club and that ended with a grade 1 ankle sprain and a ligament tear thereby rendering me not fit to play tennis for at least the next 3 months. but even sitting here in my room, i feel like i vicariously learn and experience the joy of tennis by merely watching your videos. your passion, your simplicity, your style of delivery, the lessons, tips & insights are always of great quality. there's a lot to learn from you - tennis and otherwise and i would love to meet you in person someday.
Thank you very much for the wonderful feedback! You can do a lot for the stroke technique by visualizing, practicing in front of the mirror and slowly shadow swinging. I learned my stroke technique in front of the mirror, I practiced many years in front of it and copying the shape of strokes I saw on TV. No internet yet at those times...
@@feeltennis respect to your dedication, passion, love towards the sport and doing such an hardpassionate work in hoping of for the better future ! Thank you Tomas love from India ❤️❤️❤️💯🔥👍
I wear ankle braces. Same ones Andy Murray wears. I don't have ankle issues. It to prevent exactly what you did. Invest in a pair when you're healthy.
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Thanks so much! I learned tennis on my own and started watching some videos online but it wasn't until I stumbled on to your videos that I feel like I'm really beginning to understand the reason behind what I m supposed to do. Your simple but logical explanations along w training tips are really beginning to make a difference in my game. Truly appreciate it!
Happy to help and appreciate your feedback!
Greatest coach I’ve ever seen
Thanks so much. I have seen so much video teaching how to do a single backhand. Some are totally crap using pro as example and the way they teach is not practical at all. You are spot on, we are social player and we have not went to such an intensive training and no way we can play just like them. By far you are the only one who teaches how how to handle different shot to the backhand whereas the rest are just teaching how to hit with single backhand. This help a lot. Thank You so much. This really really helps.
Thank you very much for a wonderful feedback!
Yes, the "Top Tennis Training" guys are like that. I don't really like it.
Thanks!
Danke!
Thanks
I’m a UTR 5 because of these videos and hitting with players better than me. You’re amazing. Wish you were in the US.
I have noticed that Tomaz is a great coach who always comes up with specific tips to solve common problems encountered by tennis players. Many thanks for the great video!
High backhands you’re almost swiping sideways, just spinning it back deep to your opponent’s court. It’s not an offensive shot, just trying to get the ball deep back so you can get back in position, and not give your opponent a meatball shot to crush
This is probably one of the most pragmatic and helpful videos for 1HBH. A tip for dealing with tricky high balls on the BH side is the only thing missing. Great job!
There's really no tip for that except you have to time the bounce so that you can strike it in front of your body from about waste to shoulder height. If you let it bounce to your head, it's too late. So you have only three choices: Time the bounce so you can hit in front, from waste to shoulder height. This could mean you have to take it on the rise, or back up until it drops, if you have room to back up. If you have no time to move, and the ball is deep at base line, you might have to do a half volley, as he showed earlier. And, lastly, if you're caught in no man land, which tends to happen quite often in double, you'll have to take it from the air, again, timing the drop to hit at around chest to shoulder height. None of this is easy, but I'd rather take one of these options and miss but feel good than being pushed out of position and either miss or give the opponent a short ball to attack.
Many thanks!
¡Gracias!
Absolutely perfect tips , very precise teaching on creating topspin arc n short cross court angles . I am watching his videos since 2014 n every time find them very relevant n updated.
Brilliant advice. Instant results in match situations. Thank you.
Over-rotation: Exactly my problem. Yes! Shortening and slowing the stroke are key when high topspin. It is about control! Great instruction!
The one hand backhand has a long follow through towards the target, for power and control. The windup should be more compact, the more pace youre getting from your opponents ball, and then you can take the ball on the rise on your front foot or back up and let the ball drop back into your strikezone, if your opponent is hitting a heavy kicking topspin ball thats hard to time on the rise.
Another great lesson! Well done. Greetings from Moscow
the best youtube tennis coach by far !
You’re my new favourite online coach
Owing to your detail lesson,I can get more confidence. Thank a lot
Great stuff Tomaz. Very helpful as always. Off to practice this at my local court here in the Scottish Highlands.
Brilliant how you make your videos viewer friendly by providing direct links to each teaching point.
Excellent Tips!! I really like the way you explain the wrong way and the right way and also demonstrate and shot them from different camera angles. Thank you Thomas!
Wonderful to hear!
one of the best coach on the net for sure , great thanks
Great video!!!! All points were spot on!!
Ah tennis the beautiful game lol. Love it tho. Nice to come here every once in a while and improve on my tennis knowledge
Thank you for such clear and helpful advice.
this video is sooooooo under rated, thanks for your upload
Dipping the shoulder!! Super! What a
Difference!! Thanks
Your videos are so helpful to me especially with my 1HBH. Thank you for being a fantastic teacher!
You are so welcome!
Really well done. Learned at lot.
Thanks for the lesson. Very useful. Side way slow motion is the best. Prefer a slow motion after a fast motion so easy to follow. Thanks.
Great lesson clip !
Amazing tips. God bless you for sharing them with all of us. Hitting with bend legs and enough hip rotation are critical for me as well.
Thanks for your informative videos. You are my only coach. I started watching in June and have been gradually progressing. I tried signing up for the above course, but could not enter my name and email.
Excellent video, so helpful! Thanks Tomaz
i can't remember anyone else talking about the first point, thanks!
Excellent video thank you!
Guilty as charged! Thanks for the good info!
Thank you Tomaz for this for this priceless content.
It would help me a lot, and I think for all of us, how to deal with high balls. Personally, it seems to me the hardest thing
Thanks, Daniel! The video on high balls is here: th-cam.com/video/tEbGVa7mxqM/w-d-xo.html
Exactly what I am looking for, thanks!
My 1HBH is pretty advanced, but just like other parts of my game, when something basic breaks down, the whole house of cards comes falling down. You’re the best coach for getting me back to basics to figure out what that Level 2 or 3 technique break down is causing my Level 4 or 5 to fail. Amazing coach, well done!!
Very much appreciated!
Thomas , simply and always the best ... gooooood tips
Thanks a lot! This solves a lot of my problems!
Excellent lesson.
amazing as usual Tomaz.
This was the first video I found with practical scenarios - like a hard fast low ball, short cross, loop etc v practical and helpful bravo 👏👏🎉
Glad it was helpful!
G'day from Australia. Great help much appreciated
Very good instruction. Always struggle with my 1hb. This helped explain a lot.
nice explanation of techniques. Thanks
You are a good tennis coach.
Excellent explanation! Watched many vids, but this one made me get it. Thanks a lot, love your channel.😀
Great video! Thanks for your knowledge!
omg.. everything he did right.. i did wrong.. now im fixing my strokes.. thanks a lot sir
Very useful information
Thanks
Excellent. It helped me a lot. Thank you
Thank you very much! Very helpful lesson for me.
Thanks Tomaz...best from Montreal.
Great tip! I struggle with fast and deep balls going to my one hand backhand and I end up holding the racquet with both hands to counter it. I will try it next time im on the court.
Could you do a follow-up video on "controlling the follow through" please? Not really sure I understand. Thank you for all the amazing videos!
#1 TH-cam tennis coach. Will visit Slovenia soon!
Great work Tomaz. I love it 👍👍
I was so tired of watching tutorials of people who don't have a clue of 1hbh. Thanks for this 5 tools you gave us. I can tell you are a very good teacher. Thanks for this video.
You're very welcome!
What an amazing video specially in the end Thank you so much i recognised myself :)
this will help a lot , thanks
Awesome. Another big weakness for 1-hand backhand is high balls. Can you do a video on how to handle really high balls?
THANK YOU FOR YOUR EXPERTISE !
Super teacher!
Very helpful, thank you!
Congrats on seeing several fine Slovenian pro players, both men and women, doing so well at the French Open and now Wimbledon. Good to see.
Thank you Tomăz.
One of the best
These are actually great tips
Thank you, even just "slow down your follow-through" tip is likely worth more than 10.000 dollars if you practice and ingrain it into your subconscious.
Very useful ! thanks
Great video tnx for all
Great video
What about a video on backhand return of serve?
Sir, I am a recreational player, I have been playing with a slow tennis ball that is Artengo TB 120 which has less bounce. Please suggest a ball which I should go with now. Thank you.
How do you handle high balls for 1 handed bh? thanks for your tips!!! very very helpful.
Check this video for high balls: th-cam.com/video/nkUpjKTzYec/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for the instruction. Do you have a suggestion for improving timing aside from practice, practice. The velocity of the incoming ball could be anywhere on a range of velocities. The idea of using a shortened swing for fast balls is good. What about other parts of the range? Some adjustable rhythm is necessary.
The key to timing the ball well is to imagine a zone in front of you where you will intercept the ball. See this video on forehand concepts, it's the 2nd one: th-cam.com/video/5LOKkHpFpFU/w-d-xo.html
I dunno why you always come up with the problem that i have on the court! It's never addressed in this complete compilation. Thx!
Sixth sense. ;)
Hi Tomaz. Thank you so much. I'm having trouble handling high neutral balls (shoulder height or a little higher). How do you neutralize those shots? Thank you 🙏
Tomaz.....fabulous video and great teaching technique.....I have just one question which is...what grip do you use for your one handed backhand?.......thanks in advance and greetings from Brisbane..........Edit....as a new subscriber I just caught your explanation on the grip....so thanks Tomaz.
Really great video answered a lot of questions I had when receiving a fast ball on the backhand. One question I have is: how do you deal with the one handed backhand when you're so rushed by a deep fast ball that you don't have time for that last step to get your right leg in front & across? Do you just have to accept that you've been outdone or is there a way to scramble the ball deep enough to have time to reset?
I try by all means to get my racket behind the incoming ball and slice it using arm action with my legs bends of course. This stroke requires good core muscles and fit legs but it is an arm shot so you have fewer moving body parts basically just your arm and a bit of the hip or core rotation but the arm does 90% of keeping the ball floating over the net to keep the point alive. I hope this was helpful, it works for me.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 awesome tips as always
Thank you for an excellent lesson on one-handed backhand. My problem is turning my shoulders. I just can't seem to do it instinctively. As a consequence, I am always late.
simplemente perfecta la explicacion, AMO TUS VIDEOS, MUCHAS GRACIAS TOMAZ
this is one of the most beautiful tennis courts i have seen. where is it?
Small town in Slovenia
The follow through is good for control of direction. Besides that, when hitting down the line and cross court, isn't it also concerns the striking of the ball at a different point? For the cross court shot, isn't the contact is slightly on the outside of the ball.
Well, you can say the contact is a bit outside of the ball for cross court shots but that happens automatically if you hit the ball more in front. So I focus on hitting the ball earlier and imagine hitting the ball cross and the outside contact just happens. I would prefer not to make the "outside contact" a conscious thing because it is in my view a consequence and not a cause.
Hey Tomaz, in terms of getting more height and top spin is the shoulder tilt also helped by keeping the elbow on the off hand high?
Yes, that could help, experiment with it. But I would always start with the ball flight visualization first without telling your body what to do and see if it can figure out the solution. Only if after a while you cannot hit the ball that you want would I look to do technical changes. You can very quickly fall into overthinking and that can just go downhill...
Great video and teaching, as always! One question: how to deal with very low straight balls (below knee height)? I always fail to hit this balls (they end up at the net in a straight line trajectory) and end up recurring to the slice once i see a low ball.
Hi, maybe you don't go down to the ball enough with your legs / knees but you bend your upper body to reach a low ball. Those will tend to go in the net. Another reason could be that you're hitting them too late.
@@feeltennis Ok thank you, I will keep that in mind
Thank you
Great tips coach! Really helped improved my backhand confidence. I appreciate the excellent content in your channel.
A video on how to hit in coming top spin ball using single handed backhand.
Awesome!
Thank you, from Bangkok.
Kop khun krap. ;)
good points
This is true tennis coaching without cutting corners
Excellent 👍
Having started tennis late in life and having chosen the one-handed backhand felt like a persecuted minority. But your videos are so logical and explanatory. I love it. Please can you do a video on when you have set up for the back hand topspin drive but the ball is too uncomfortable and you want to slice it. When do I change the grip to continental? Why can’t I slice with my eastern backhand grip. Too much to do!!
You probably decide too late whether you will hit topspin or slice. The grip changes the moment you know whether it's topspin or slice and that should be by the time the ball is over the net - and of course well before it bounces on your side. Just keep playing as much tennis as you can and you will get better at reading the incoming ball.
@@feeltennis I am 50 now so the only thing that stops me from playing more and more is that I like to wait till my muscles are fully healed before I am ready for the next round. Therefore I am playing only twice a week. I also go to the empty court in my apartment and hit baskets of balls and try to serve on my own. I watch more videos than I actually play 😁😂.
@rohitrathi4552 Yes, body needs longer to recover so give it that time...
What a beautiful places you 're filming in, where is that ?
Slovenia
Very good ....