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Hi my name is Lincoln Ward. I'm the director of the Austin Tennis Center here in Austin,
Texas as well as a USPTA Certified Teaching Pro. Today we are going to talk about how
to correctly hit a tennis ball. The general rules to correctly hitting a tennis ball is
making contact in front of your body over your front foot, watching the ball bounce
up and move into your strings, making contact in the sweet spot of your racket and following
through. When you hit the ball you are going to start with your racket back, swing in to
make contact, following through up above your shoulder. A general rule of thumb is starting
low and finishing high. You don't necessarily have to hit the ball hard as long as you make
contact in that sweet spot, your racket acts as a trampoline setting the ball skyrocketing
back. It is good to use your opponent's power against them. You don't have to generate your
own power, just ricochet the ball back. If you have ever hit against a back board, nobody
ever beats a back board, it is stationary you are the one hanging the ball back at it,
the ball bounces off the wall and comes right back every single time. So again you don't
have to swing hard to correctly hit a tennis ball, you want to make sure you watch that
ball, have it come up to the sweet spot of your racket, follow through low to high and
finish your stroke up here. That's how to correctly hit a tennis ball.