Three Factors Besides Grip Change Designation that Adjust Racket Face for a Backhand
1) Amount of lean into the shot.
2) Fit of right-hander's thumb on the racket. It it is extended straight up the handle you won't get around on the ball and will hit it weakly too far to the left. You would have to hit the ball too far in front to have success. There are players and probably coaches in the world who think you cannot hit the ball too far out front but that simply is untrue. Budge and Kramer wanted some non-extended thumb (some kind of a diagonal or compromise) behind the ball.
3) Where is opposite elbow at top of the backswing-- up, down or somewhere in between? If Guga and Justine start with an 8/8 grip but then roll elbow up to the extreme they obtain even more bevel than afforded by the 8/8 designation.
Axiom: Every little change in grip affects exponentially what happens next.
So-- try some 8/8's but lead the backswing with racket tip rather than elbow, then do more like Guga and Justine. Try some Simple Simons with a 1/1 and for them also make the change by turning the racket into the hitting hand. Try some Waltke-Popp variation of Rosewallian tabletop slice with a flying grip change because of planned forward roll and wrist release right on the ball.
Be entranced by the following illustration for some shots but not for others.
Sorry for using private names and terms but I have explained them before and too much explanation always always is a drag.
1) Amount of lean into the shot.
2) Fit of right-hander's thumb on the racket. It it is extended straight up the handle you won't get around on the ball and will hit it weakly too far to the left. You would have to hit the ball too far in front to have success. There are players and probably coaches in the world who think you cannot hit the ball too far out front but that simply is untrue. Budge and Kramer wanted some non-extended thumb (some kind of a diagonal or compromise) behind the ball.
3) Where is opposite elbow at top of the backswing-- up, down or somewhere in between? If Guga and Justine start with an 8/8 grip but then roll elbow up to the extreme they obtain even more bevel than afforded by the 8/8 designation.
Axiom: Every little change in grip affects exponentially what happens next.
So-- try some 8/8's but lead the backswing with racket tip rather than elbow, then do more like Guga and Justine. Try some Simple Simons with a 1/1 and for them also make the change by turning the racket into the hitting hand. Try some Waltke-Popp variation of Rosewallian tabletop slice with a flying grip change because of planned forward roll and wrist release right on the ball.
Be entranced by the following illustration for some shots but not for others.
Sorry for using private names and terms but I have explained them before and too much explanation always always is a drag.
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