topspin-against-heavy-chops
Hamza Caratela asked 7 months ago
Hey guys, I have played a tournament today and won all my matches thanks to your guidance. However as I looked back on my match performance, I seem to miss a lot of those heavy chops. I’m quite used to light and medium backspin balls. When it comes to heavy chops I get stumped and dump it in the net. What can I do here to lift it as sometimes I don’t want to push it back so I’m focusing on a bit of variation here.
Tom Academy Coach answered 7 months ago
Hey Hamza, Great to hear you won all your matches! It’s good to look back and analyse even when you win and find these areas that you can improve, it will really help you in the future. So with the heavy backspin chops it’s about making good use of the legs to help you lift these type of shots, if you just use the arm alone it’s sometimes not enough against a lot of backspin. So keeping your body low and forward and really getting low in the legs and pushing up with that energy into the shot. Also with the timing making sure the ball doesn’t drop too low because then it’s a lot of work to lift the ball back up.
The last thing I would say is getting a quick acceleration through the contact point, often players when playing against a lot of backspin it ends up almost forcing them backwards and the speed through the ball on contact gets lost. So try to really get your feet solid on the ground and make sure at the contact point your bat is accelerating through. Hope this helps!
Cheers, Tom
