Yandell17,
Nice login! And good questions. I hope I didn't demonstrate open face at contact...the model is for vertical. Astute though that maybe you saw Karsten, who easily has the best backhand of any of the demonstrators (and once had a world ranking in top 200) is slightly open at contact--more of a very slight hard slice drive... But I think everyone else is vertical.
As for the tilt. You do see it in some but definitely not all of the great one-handed backhands. Kerry Mitchell for one believes in it as a teaching cue:
https://www.tennisplayer.net/members...and_Grips.html
Rod Cross in Technical Tennis explains (somewhere) the relationship between necessary ball speed and the viability of the tilt. Myself I think it's a higher level thing that probably happens automatically. If it works for you, go for it.
As for the wrist, I believe the angle is set by the grip. In my model there isn't any conscious or mechanical wrist movement in the forward swing. If it moves it's minor and automatic but I believe in the straight arm all the way to the extension. The wrist may release in the wrap but it's not part of the technical swing.
Nice login! And good questions. I hope I didn't demonstrate open face at contact...the model is for vertical. Astute though that maybe you saw Karsten, who easily has the best backhand of any of the demonstrators (and once had a world ranking in top 200) is slightly open at contact--more of a very slight hard slice drive... But I think everyone else is vertical.
As for the tilt. You do see it in some but definitely not all of the great one-handed backhands. Kerry Mitchell for one believes in it as a teaching cue:
https://www.tennisplayer.net/members...and_Grips.html
Rod Cross in Technical Tennis explains (somewhere) the relationship between necessary ball speed and the viability of the tilt. Myself I think it's a higher level thing that probably happens automatically. If it works for you, go for it.
As for the wrist, I believe the angle is set by the grip. In my model there isn't any conscious or mechanical wrist movement in the forward swing. If it moves it's minor and automatic but I believe in the straight arm all the way to the extension. The wrist may release in the wrap but it's not part of the technical swing.
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