In Tennis, Turning a Backhand Into a Forehand

The ATP finals in Turin, Italy, presents the best male tennis players in the world, which have the strongest reverse on the tour. And yet, these players are often successful running around those setback and putting them in position to turn them into the most powerful right.

Most points end in four shots or less, but when that fifth shot reaches, players must take advantage of an advantage. “The right hunting is not about the point, but about controlling it and going off the fastestness as it can,” said ESPN analyst Patrick Mcenroe.

Being the first player to turn a setback into a right -wing blow, called a lever coup from inside out when he is affected upside down of your opponent, it is that edge, placing them in the defensive and opening the opposite corner.

“The right is the biggest weapon, and it is easier to maneuver your opponent because you can create better angles,” added Michael Russell, who trains Taylor Fritz, one of the eight participants in Turin.

Craig O’Shanshannessy pushed Novak Djokovic, who has one of the best setback, to hit more rightists when he trained the duration of 2017-19.

O’Shannessy, which focuses on statistics and patterns, has studies that show that the rightists are, in Aviso, approximately eight miles per hour faster than the reverse and that between two thirds and three quarters of all winners are typically affected.

“That is vital information, which says: ‘Even if your setback is great, it is nothing like an offensive weapon compared to the right,” he said. “I always called the sword to the right and vice versa.”

Runaround’s right -wing blows are usually beaten open, allowing players to disguise their address, he added. “You are updating your shot and freezing your opponent.”

O’Shanness and studies divide the court into four quadrants: A is the extreme right side; B is the right side near the medium; C is the reverse side near the medium; YD is the lateral setting line.

He said that more country balls in quadrant C than any other, so the players should transform them upside down to waste, saying that the winners Forhandes are really beaten from the reverse side, while the players make lesstetetetetetetetetetetete.

The strategy is not new, or course. Ivan Lendl popularized the right of the inside out in the 1980s and the players, including Jim Courier, successful with him in the next generation. But the growth in this tactic in the last two decades, not surprisingly, by Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer.

“Rafa was the king of Runaround’s right -wing blows, but it was a Leffty, and for the right -handed and conceptualized him, Roger was his man,” O’Shannesy said.

He pointed out that Federer would hit as many as two thirds of all his shots as right, and more than half were on the back side. The average player hits around 53 percent of the right.

“When I worked with Novak, we absolutely copy Roger,” he added. “Hit 53 percent of their shots as rightists is a joke. Everyone should be copying Roger.”

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Mcenroe said that the rhythm of the shots and the player’s speed makes running more important, which allows the attacker to open the field plus different angles, including the shortest balls that lead the opponents away from the court.

“In addition, if you hit a relatively good right blow in the corner of your opponent’s reverse, your shot can land more in the middle so that you can now hit a right track in the open area,” he said.

Even so, Mcenroe and Russell place some warnings in this tactic. Mcenroe said that taking a reverse step to hit that right from inside out is “to try to hook your opponent to hit a setback by the line.”

In the ATP finals, I would be “cautious” to exaggerate that approach against an opponent like Alexander Zverev, who can hit a great setback along the line and leave the opponent out of position and vulnerable; While trying to open the opposite right corner is less effective against a player with the speed of Carlos Alcaraz.

In addition, he said, sometimes players can go too far to hit a right, moving to the doubles alley or simply out of the court to hunt a right -wing opportunity. “At the highest levels, that is very risky,” he said.

Russell said that is true that it is true for a player like Fritz, who trusts in his own setback on a quick and low court like Turin.

“If Taylor runs around his reverse there, it is exposing too much of himself,” he said. “You must calculate in your movement and your space. If you do not make the shot good enough, you will do it well defensively, just even if your goal was to be offensive. It will depose the positioning of your opponent. Create so much angle.”

But O’Shanshanness and does not buy warnings about the speed of the court or the quality of the opponents. To begin with, he said, the players who take a step back are putting their opponent in the race, which is always crucial, but special now at the end of the year when the energy is exhausting.

“You are hitting more winners, but it is also more likely that your opponent generally hit you that track back for you so you don’t have to reach the environment and run less, which faces less in your body,” he said.

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Then, the elite level of players in the ATP finals will not discourage O’Shannessy to hunt right.

“I would be training all the players there to double in the reverse run,” he said.