If they can successfully teach those skills, Giampaolo believes that parents will create more than just good tennis players. “I do believe the game makes kids better people,” he says.

Teach them how to switch their grip to a “backhand grip”, where the knuckles are facing upwards. Explain that the backhand is like a mirror image of the forehand, but the swing starts on the ...

Midway through a tennis match at the William J Sweet Memorial Tennis Center on May 4, Marshfield’s Jon Massie blasted a forehand shot that got past North Bend’s Nathan Kahler on the endline.

Additionally, he said, sometimes players go too far over to hit a forehand, moving all the way into the doubles alley or even off the court to hunt down a forehand opportunity.

You may be stronger in forehand than backhand or vice versa, but you’ll find a need for both in most matches. Whether you’re playing tennis casually or you're a pro like in Red Bull’s ...

Rafa [Nadal] was exactly the same. Roger [Federer], when he hit a forehand, you could just hear the sound of it. And Novak [Djokovic], when he hits a forehand and backhand, it's like a thud.