On Forcing the Pace (Part-3)
Many players make the mistake of turning their wrist over when hitting the ball instead of having it go forward with one's racquet. By having your wrist turn over your racquet is facing downward. That sends the ball into the net. Quite a few players imagine a topping stroke is done with the wrist. The turnover or arm roll is more from the shoulder in putting "top" on the ball. One should be sure the ball is going back high enough before he puts any arm roll over on his stroke.
Be careful of using your wrist, as it guides your stroke. If you turn over your wrist too sharply for a cross court shot it will send the ball out of court. Turning your wrist down too much is likely to put the ball in the net.
This fault of turning your wrist over too much is made mostly on your backhand shots. When the ball comes in contact with your racquet your wrist seems to turn over at once. One cannot expect to put the ball over the net doing that, as the ball is going downward from the time it leaves the racquet. Your wrist should go forward with your stroke.
In returning a low bounding ball one must turn over the wrist sharply and one must also on this shot hit harder to keep the ball in court. The hard hitting gets the ball past the net before it takes the drop from the wrist turn over.
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