How To Hit More Forehand Winners In Tennis (Stan Wawrinka Strategy Explained)

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How To Hit More Forehand Winners In Tennis (Stan Wawrinka Strategy Explained)
1. Film yourself playing singles
2. Check to see that you’re moving around shots that comes directly to your backhand
3. If you start dominating play with your forehand you’re going to win more matches
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[roddi]

There's not enough words in my vocabulary to express my gratitude towards you for your videos.

[lowellwalters]

Great video and tip, Ryan. I MOSTLY agree. My only difference is that I would say that while a club player should generally run around balls hit slightly to their backhand side, they should not run around shots hit closer to the backhand sideline unless they will be a few feet inside the baseline. From inside the baseline, we can more safely hit the angles that counterbalance the risk of leaving the entire forehand side of the court open. If we ran around those last few backhands while behind the baseline like wrarinka did, we can't consistently hit a good enough forehand to prevent our ave opponent from taking advantage of the hole that is now in our court coverage. Tx!

[careydunn]

I often do social doubles and am amused when asking which side they prefer to play Add or Duce they say the Duce side as their backhand is weak and therefore the Add side gives them a better chance to hit the forehand. Thanks for proving me right.

[roccoedwards]

I was literally thinking of this earlier today. I was analyzing a match against a tough opponent of mine and thinking of when it's the time to pull the trigger on my FH. It's when it's slightly to the ad side of the court. The opponent being positioned opposite opens up the inside in to their FH or the inside out moving away from their BH.

[-Munditimum-]

Brilliant. Thanks Ryan. Will Hamilton is truly one of the hidden gems of tennis.
Cheers!
M

[andrewpatterson]

I really don't get this way of thinking.

If it's slow and I need to wait for it anyways, sure I'll run around it. But if it takes more time, gets me off balance (because of lackluster footwork), and I hit a worse inside out forehand than just smacking the ball with my backhand early.. why would I run around it? He also had time to take it out of the air as a backhand swinging volley to put it in a corner, winning it right there or setting himself for an overhead.

I think looking at the pros and their habits is a vast oversimplification of tennis strategy for rec players like us. Because a bad forehand from a pro is still better than the best possible backhand they can hit. But we are not pros. And a good backhand is better than an okay forehand for me and every person I've ever seen play at the rec level.

Every single rec player is nuanced in their strengths and weaknesses to where no broad stroke strategy is going to work for advice for us.

Pros have near effortless perfection on their strokes, because it is their job, and they've been doing it for decades. Obviously hitting near perfectly on all wings would have a forehand preference.

Just like if I could hit my flat serve 80% of the time in like the pros, hit every single corner with little pressure like the pros, and have near infinite stamina like a pro, I wouldn't need coaching or any advice from youtube. But I can't, and nor can the vast majority of the people watching this.

I really think we should ask ourselves not "Oh i need more forehands" but more "what does more forehands mean" for our games. What does that sharper angle or more time taken away mean for your opponents positioning really mean and what does it really do?

Another thing, we saw Stan absolutely slam those forehands but can you explain why it worked so well? Why couldn't it have been as successful with his backhand? Can we take inspiration from this to use it in a completely different situation with a different shot from understanding how to use higher pace strategically? Not just big forehand good?

I post a lot of my matches and you'll see I definitely have a strong forehand for my level and this has definitely given me some ideas, but it still irks me to see such a broad stroke suggested to rec players who have a forehand that might be at best 15% faster than their solid backhand.

[dastanprobg]

Hi Ryan, I have strong wish to donate you some money, I hope I can do it someday as a reward for the job you are doing, I mean you are better than all tennis trainers I've seen, at least in my country, I know trainers that can't put together two words and they get good salary.

[wkozwkoz]

moving around your backhand and hitting down the line is a recipe for a disaster.. (if it's not a straight winner)