I recently had a tennis lesson with an 11 year old girl in the tennis academy and we were working on top spin.

She was hitting sometimes with lots of spin and sometimes too flat.

So then I asked her: “Was this a top spin?”

She: “Yes.”

Me: “How do you know?”

She: no answer…

She knew that she hit a top spin backhand but she couldn’t explain to me how she knew.

2 days later I had a lesson with an adult advanced recreational player.

At one point, I asked him again: “Was this a top spin?”

He: “Yes, sure.”

Me: “How do you know?”

He: paused for 10 seconds then told me one thing right and two things that were not exactly necessarily true.

I realized that something what may be obvious to a tennis coach studying tennis for 20 years is not so obvious for a tennis player who hasn’t spent countless hours THINKING about tennis.

So here is a quiz question: How do you know that you hit a top spin?

Test your knowledge and reply in the comments box below.

The correct answer will be posted on Friday, 22nd of June here on the blog and in the next issue of the TennisMindGame.com newsletter.

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Hi, my coach keeps telling me to spin the ball, roll it. He basically tells me to focus on TECHNICAL PART OF TENNIS.

Do i have to do the same in match? To concentrate on swing, low to high, knees bend (technical part). Please just tell me what do pro tennis players think, focus on when they are in a match???

And what do i have got to do to get my swing, footwork during rally, drill time, in match?? E.i. what should i work on more?? More drills? More rally?? More matches???

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