HOW TO HIT YOUR BACKHAND LIKE

ROGER FEDERER GUIDE - HUGE TENNIS

Roger begins to take his racquet back

with both hands. The non dominant
hand holding the throat with just his
fingers.

Federer uses an Eastern backhand

grip with a small amount of the bottom
of his hand over the end of the grip.

Roger, like his forehand, uses both

hands to take the racquet back. The
tip of the racquet is pointed to the sky.
By using both hands, his hips and
shoulders also turn helping him load
energy.
Roger continues his backswing now
pointing his right foot and shoulder
towards the oncoming ball. The
racquet head continues to go higher
and the swing continues back behind
his body.

Here is a closeup of the grip and non-

dominant hand on his racquet. On the
grip hand Roger has his first two
fingers spread apart a little bit for
more control of the swing.

Roger now is in the initial stage of his

forward swing. The racquet starts to
drop as his right shoulder is now
turned even more to the left fence
loading up even more energy to be
unleashed later.
As Roger begins the forward swing,
the right should uncoils, he lets go of
the throat and the racquet. With the
hips and shoulders uncoiling so fast
now during the swing, the racquet
lags behind. Eyes are fixated on the
incoming ball.

The racquet face makes contact with

the ball with a perfectly flat face
perpendicular to the court surface.
The hips and shoulders continue their
uncoiling creating massive racquet
head speed. Eyes are still fixated on
the ball.

Roger continues his swing and the

racquet head path begins in an
upward motion maintaining the
perpendicular plane to the playing
surface. Rogers eyes are still fixated
on the contact point of the ball.
 Roger “spreads his wings” with both
arms spreading apart getting to the
endpoint of his swing. The racquet
face is now pointed down to the court
surface and the non-dominant hand
palm is facing the court surface as
well. Eyes STILL fixated on ball
contact point.

The swing has completed where it

began, behind his body. The hips and
shoulders return to parallel to the
baseline completing their job to create
massive racquet head speed and
control.

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