Slice Tennis Approach Shots
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The slice approach is also an important type of approach shot to master, because sometimes your opponent is gonna hit the ball short, but it will still stays low and it will be difficult to hit up on with a lot of topspin will be aggressive.
So that slice allows you to hit an aggressive ball and follow it in to the net and also the slice will stay low when it bounces and that forces your opponent to hit up on the tennis ball, which could give you an easy volley, it’s a little bit higher over the net and you can hit down on.
The mechanist of slice approach shot are pretty much the same like the normal slice backhand and that’s what I am shadowing here to start.
I am not moving, the main difference, just like the topspin backhand approach is the foot work. You gonna take a caraoke step with your backfoot, which is my right foot in this case since I am lefty we will step behind my front left foot as I hit.
So if we watch that as I hit that shot, as I slice the ball my right foot comes behind my left foot and that allows me to stay sideways and still clossing on the net So if we watch the full sequence now, I start at the base line, close on my approach shot, like I am doing here and then I slice the ball and stay sideways with that drop step and then from here, again I am continuing to get close to the net and if we clip to this view here looking over the net.
You will see that my placement is again the same.
I go down the line with some merging for air, with the satellite in the base line and this ball is gonna stay a little bit lower and hopefully force my opponent to hit up on the ball. So I can put the next voley away.
The forehand sliced approach is not a shot that you typicaly use.
If you get a short ball, most of time you wanna roll over it, but sometimes you have to either slice it or if you have opponent player playing really far back it can be a good change up it will force him to hit up on the ball and again that can give you an easyer voley.
The technique for the forehand slice approach its pretty similar to forehand voley behind me here I am hitting a sliced approach and when I prepare, when I pivot out with my outside foot and get my rocket in to the position.
this looks pretty similar to how I prepare to hit a forehand voley.
The main difference is the length of my swing I gonna swing a litte bit more, because I have to put more juice on the tennis ball but the mechanist are the same.
and if we clip to the view from over the net.
You will see that I hit this ball down the line and then hopefully its gonna hit and not bounce too high and set me up for a easy voley on next shot.
If we go back to the side view, I gonna start at the base line now, and then there is one thing that I wanna point out when I close, I am not gonna get my body sideways, when I move through and hit the tennis ball And thats the same thing that happens on the voley You dont get as sideways on the voley as you do for your typical forehand or backhand So as I close on the tennis ball, again when I get near the ball I pivot out and get my rocket in to position and then I gonna step foreward with my inside foot, swing through the tennis ball, kind of like a voley, longer swing and then I am gonna continue to close the net, hit my split step and be ready for the voley.