The Geometric Reality Of Tennis

The Geometric Reality Of Tennis

Movement.  The first step in establishing a strong foundation with the body is by facing the undeniable truth about this game.  A tennis player faces an angle of possibilities, which means the ball angles, or moves, away from you either to your right or to your left (1A).  The ball is not hit at you.  (The court is drawn to scale.) The ball is angling away from you.  While you can take different directions to intercept it, you want to hit the ball back with some power and not simply run over and touch it or just stop it. You've heard often enough that moving into the ball gives you power, that is getting your body's momentum behind the stroke and into the ball equals power.  Why doesn't that happen often enough for you?  Because if you either move parallel to the baseline, turn sideways, or pivot one foot to the side, you're moving away from the ball and not into it.  It's simple geometry. REST OF THE ARTICLE