Top 3 Drills For Two Handed Backhand In Tennis - Transform Your Tennis Backhand
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- Top 3 Drills For Two-Handed Backhand In Tennis - Transform Your Backhand. For the vast majority of tennis players, the backhand is their weakness. The two-handed backhand in tennis can be a very powerful and consistent shot, players like Novak Djokovic, Andre Agassi, David Nalbandian, and Marat Safin all have amazing backhands, perhaps the best of all time.
These players are capable of producing heavy topspin or hitting a flatter backhand that takes time away from opponents.
A few of the most important elements of a good two-handed backhand in tennis include:
- Using the top hand to generate topspin
- Creating a low to high swing when going for topspin
- Using the major muscle groups to generate power, this includes the legs and bodyweight transfer, the coil and uncoil of the trunk muscles
- Reaching a good power position on the backhand
Which hand should dominate the two-handed backhand?
For the vast majority of two-handed backhands in tennis, the top hand, your left hand if you are a right-handed player, should be the boss. Normally it should be 60% top hand, 40% bottom hand.
That may change when producing more topspin or going for a short crosscourt angle.
In those cases, the top hand may be leading by 70% or 80%.
When hitting a flatter backhand, the bottom hand can take more of a lead, often it will be 50-50 or 60-40 for the bottom hand. This is because, on those shots, you'll be extending out towards the target much more and hitting through the contact zone with a more linear swing.
To transform your own two-handed backhand, try out these three drills.
Drill One
Topspin vs flat - to isolate and work on each hand separately, firstly start off hitting shots with your top hand only.
Keep the same grip you normally use on the back and use the open stance to work the left side of your body, assuming you're right-handed. Here you will be focused on brushing up the back of the ball producing topspin.
Then alternate between using your top hand and the bottom hand. With the top hand, keep working on the brushing motion and with the bottom hand, focus more on extending out, through the contact point.
Finally, hit one shot with the top hand only, then the bottom hand only, then both hands.
Drill Two
Power production - start in the power position, focus on having the racket head higher than the grip level, creating leverage in the arms and racket head. Leverage is basically force over the ball.
Lift your front foot off the ground and load up on the back leg. As your coach or partner drop feeds the ball, you then step forward and transfer the body weight into the shot.
Focus on opening up the body and pivoting around the front foot.
Drill Three
Rotational Power - In this drill, you'll be using a medicine ball or a football (soccer ball). Focus on turning the shoulders and storing energy in the trunk muscles, especially the side abdominals.
As you throw the ball, focus on uncoiling and really go for it.
Video Timeline:
00:00 - Top 3 Drills For Two-Handed Backhand In Tennis Video Intro
00:19 - Which hand should dominate the two-handed backhand?
1:13 - Generating topspin and control on your two-handed backhand (drill one)
5:23 - Generating power on your two-handed backhand (drill two)
7:46 - Rotational power on your two-handed backhand (drill three)
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Fun fact: Simon's left-handed forehand is better than 99% of TTT subscribers' forehands.
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Exactly 😂
@@TiVul It certainly points to a weakness, getting the top hand stronger would make a huge impact on the backhand
Just learning tennis here in some group lessons where all we do is practice bad technic over and over again. I've been watching your videos repeatedly and comparing against a mirror and now some self-filming. Extremely helpful! Thank you both for making these videos!
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Simon
Totally an excellent video for me in learning the cause and effect of my two-handed backhand. Great job and huge thank u.
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Very clear and precise instruction guys. I'm in the process of changing from a one handed backhand to a two hander as I am having difficulty returning high balls. I enjoyed the video immensely. Keep up the good work.
John Shannon.
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Thanks, guys. It was very helpful, tomorrow I'll practice and I'll try to improve my backhand following your advice.
Have fun on court 👍
Thank you very much! I will begin right away with the drills
Have fun!
Thanks for this. It really helped a lot. My coach misses out on some of these basics and often doesn’t make me do as much drills. But this helps a lot. Thanks so much.
Thank you for watching and good luck with the improvements 👍
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Simon
Bravissimi! Il più esauriente video mai visto sul rovescio a due mani!
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Old school tennis drills, I love it! Great job on the video Coach. Hopefully you had a great Thanksgiving my friend.
Super helpful! Thank you, coach!
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Excellent return serve analysis.
Another great video 👌🏾
Interesting drills, espacially the one you step forward onto the ball to enable this complete trunk rotation..
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Simon
Thanks. I’m looking forward to incorporating some of these drills. 🤓
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Best regards,
Simon
One-handed backhand drills - th-cam.com/video/rX0U1gnySRI/w-d-xo.html
Ii wished I could see this before my training at the wall today🤣. Thank you!! I will try it next time. Although I can play one handed backhand I never really wanted to let my left hand hanging in there for decoration. I think I developed my body harmoniously when I use both hands so it was more of a personal preference than style.
Let us know how it goes
Thanks for this. I just started actually playing tennis about 2 years ago (but have been a tennis follower since 2005) as my 30 yrs old promise. I cannot get my backhand shot consistently. This video really helps
Good luck with the backhand improvements
GREAT THE EXERCISE WITH THE MEDICINE BALL, REALLY HELPFULL DRILL!
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Great desscription
Amazing video and as always you guys show us how to hit these shots and most importantly - the drills/progressions to get us there! One quick question, I know we should focus on the high hand low hand drop (up, down and up again) during the drills, but in a game should we still be thinking of actively dropping the racquet head in the forward swing - or if we have loose hands will it just happen naturally? I used to concentrate on it for the forehand but then after a while it just naturally happens if you start in the right position and end in the right position. Thanks again, best videos out there as always!
With practice and high repetition, it should start to occur naturally without you having to think about it. In matches, your focus should be on point construction
I am a huge fan of Nole's two handed backhand. Gonna straight away utilize these drills and improve my two-handed backhand on the court.
Glad to hear it, have you always been a two hander?
Alex
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial .Yes.Initially I struggled a lot with my backhand.Some of your two handed backhand videos and little bit of pratice helped me a lot to improve
Yeah, his backhand is just straight up unfair, haha. Although personally I would love to have Nalbandian's backhand, it's just super flashy and basically another forehand. (and I'm saying that as someone whose backhand is the stronger wing)
Nice video!! Great tips and exercises to improve the quality of your two-handed backhand. Good Job!! ;-)
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Simon
Quá hay!
I hope the courts are open so I can practice this! Thanks for the great videos ❤️
Glad to help! Let’s hope we can all get back on court soon! Are you a two hander?
Yes, I’m a two hander. I tried doing one-handed backhands before but I feel like it might mess up what I have right now with the two-handed backhand
Both have superb bh but I'm personally a huge fan of Alex's 2hbh although I'm aware he's a 1hbh player. Reminds me on Agassi's. He has both hips and shoulders more aligned at the contact, almost parallel to the baseline. Both arms extended. Great.
This channel is amazing. Any tips on how to hit more cross-court angle for two hand backhand?
Hit slightly earlier and make sure the strings are facing your target 🎯
Another great video from the best on the net tennis instruction. Clearly, people who have good two handed backhands are fairly ambidextrous. Simon is very ambidextrous. Most people can't hit a non-dominant hand forehand. The backhand they show with a dominant left hand is different than what Chris Evert used. She said her left hand just supported her right hand because she was too weak as a child to hit with one hand. Also, these guys are good athletes and have exceptional hand-eye coordination. But for people who are not good athletes (most of us) tennis is still a lot of fun. You just play with people of your own skill level, barbecue after a match, drink and party :).
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Nice job guys. So helpfull.
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Simon
Thank you 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🎾💝
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Awesome
Many thanks Paul
Awesome video Bros
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For best tips Thank you
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Top 3 fourhand drills
This channel has helped my game tremendously and personally would love to train with you guys one day.
I seem to never get a chance to see the weight of the medicine balls you guys use, what would be a good range for a 4.0-4.5 player?
I’d go for 3kg to begin and take it from there 👍
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Simon
the first drill asks a lot from students. Not your typical starting drill with beginners, as an advanced drill I see the value. Big fan of the ball throwing method
I’ve done that drill with plenty of beginners, they’ll struggle for sure but they get better if you do it consistently and you’re building up good motor patterns! If it was easy, everyone would be good
Good video form your side really loving 🥰 your content that you are providing in these times. Also sir pls do a video on cool down exercises🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial thank you
Can you please make us a video showing us how to choose the best grip tape and tennis racket strings with preferred tension and so on. Thanks
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Hi guys,
another great video, thank you!
What is the weight of the medicine ball you train with?
All the best. Rgds
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The weight is 4kg
It's working!
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Jesus this is probably one of the hardest drills. You still have so much control hitting it as a onehanded backhand. Makes me feel bad 🥲
Keep working on it, you'll get it
Hello fantastic content. Does Alex have an eastern backhand grip on his non dominant hand, I imagine it’s because he has a one hander. Do you recommend that for more spin and control?
An eastern backhand grip is ideal for one handers but not so good for two handers. The continental is the way to go
Good video
Glad you enjoyed, and thanks for the support 🙏
I have been hitting my two hander like a baseball swing, I bring my racquet back around waist level, with the racquet head pointed up, and I use my left leg, and push off my left leg, as I make contact, and I have to admit, after a 22 year hiatus from tennis, my two hander is still extremely consistent and my return serve is still solid. The problem I am having Coach, is my footwork during rallies, because I have two hip replacements, I have been doing footwork drills, and with in 3 months I have lost 25 pounds and I am able to move around much better. I play tennis doubles with players who are in the late 70s and 80s and they love making me run, and watch a 51 year old fat guy run for drop shots!
I had a decent backhand but knew i was missing something - which this video has highlighted : Lifting your leading leg....explained here th-cam.com/video/xn-Bdd74F5c/w-d-xo.html
It greatly helps with your forward momentum and body rotation. As a leftie my leading left leg was stuck to the ground and greatly inhibiting the kinetic energy of my backhand technique.
So thank you guys - great advice in this video.
Thanks for watching 👍
Amazing, could you please make the one handed backhand one?
Here you go - th-cam.com/video/rX0U1gnySRI/w-d-xo.html
Thanks!
Can you elaborate a little more on the swing path? I have noticed, my backhand is somewhat like the mirror image of my forehand, which doesn't seem to be the case with your stroke. I don't have as much control on the shape, depth and sometimes, even direction of the shot. On a great day, I'll rip backhands with reasonable pace and topspin consistently, but I can't vary the pace, spin, height etc nearly as well. I can slow my forehand swing down and still keep balls in no trouble, but struggle with that for my backhand. My backhand also doesn't respond to a lot of different positions I'm thrown into, I can alter my forehands swing to suit any kind of ball and often hit good shots from out of position, but am only comfortable facing certain types of shots on my backhand. This really shows in practice, when I hit balls well, but during a set, when I'm thrown into all sorts of positions, my drive backhand tends to fail, and I resort to slicing.
Check out these lessons - th-cam.com/channels/NOhED7RHmzzoxS3YnAUwPQ.html
funny to read this as I have the exact same! My backhand is even better than my forehand even though I just seem to have a rather one dimensional shot
Can u guys pls make a video on topspin serve
Here you go- th-cam.com/video/yjpi0cMrkyw/w-d-xo.html
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial tqsm
I'm able to do it
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What kind of grip do you use on one-handed BH? In this particular drill.
Eastern backhand or continental?
For the one-handed backhand it's best to use the eastern backhand grip
i’ve had coaches tell me to keep both feet grounded as i swing, and to not step with my back leg. Is it worth keeping this or does it actually affect the stroke?
It depends your level. For beginners that works ok, for balance reasons. After that, keeping the back foot planted becomes a serious problem on 90% of backhands
Hello How do we have to topspin with the ball like the clock?
How we can brush the ball in contact ?
This lesson should help - th-cam.com/video/iRO6n0Qp4QU/w-d-xo.html
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial oh its same thing like forehand the topspin?
Can you leave video on jumping forehand please
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Thank you 🤗🤗
Given I'm right handed, I find it very difficult to hit with left hand. It's like I'm so uncoordinated. How do I get more comfortable hitting with my left hand??
Practice 👍
I need this video in 1 handed version please 🙏
Here you go - th-cam.com/video/rX0U1gnySRI/w-d-xo.html
Happy diwali Guys.
Happy Diwali to you sir
What club is this called and where is it?
It's a club in London
I heard that Djokovic and Andre Agassi are right hand dominant on their back hand is that true.
I wouldn’t say so. Both hands play their role
Hey Simon, a little off topic, but I have the same raquet (Dunlop CX tour 18X20) as you. I noticed you have lead tape from the 2 down to the 4 o'clock position. Do you have any in the handle? or anywhere else you have lead? I find it a little jarring outside the sweet spot in its stock form and not as stable, therefore, is the lead that you added the reason you applied it there and whats your thoughts to the added lead tape?
The lead tape is mainly a test, I wanted to see if the increased weight would add some extra power without more effort, so far it's worked out well.
I feel more stable at contact and get a bit more out of the racket powerwise
My problem with my forehand is that i cant hit clearly when im trying to hit with a lot of power and because of that i lose lot of points.... What am i doing wrong?
That’s a million dollar question. Without seeing your forehand in action, it’s impossible for me to say what the problem is.
If you’re losing the contact point, focus on really seeing the ball well right onto the strings
Try to find out if it's a problem with technique, footwork or something else. Usually it's easier to discover with a coach or when you record a video of yourself playing. In general, limit your power to a point of where your technique is still fully intact and where you still manage to hit clean shots. In general you don't really need *that* much power until higher levels of play, since you can get people in a lot of trouble by using moderate power and getting good angles/accuracy so your opponent has to run and hit a weaker shot. But it depends on your preferred style of play, so if you love to exchange heavy shots from the baseline and overpower your opponent you might need a different approach from what I said.
I feel like better the style of Nadal, Sinner whose backhand has no or very little power position. It is just a simple leveled backswing. That’s more natural for me.
Some players benefit more from that style of swing 👍
gentlemen,How can I meet the far balls coming to my backhand(two-hand)?
Use the open stance and work on your footwork 👍
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial no matter which foot i get caught, can I still hit it? Otherwise always must be open stance?
We're you at David Lleoyd
Yes I coached there for 11 years.
I left last year
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Simon
you make this look too easy mate XD
😂 thank you 🙏
Just curious: Alex vs Simon H2H score? heh heh
These days I think we would injure ourselves before the match ends.
Courts closed again here
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial keep safe guys 🙏
that camera quality tho.
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Simon
:)
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