The correct contact point of the ball is a basic condition, in order to be able  to play tennis successfully.

The contact point is the most important part of total shot and decide the success or failure of each stroke. Of course, the perfect venue from many previous actions, movements and the racket handle, and you can not isolate him. However, the perfect venue for every stroke should be established. You have to know what everything has to do before to make it correct to “catch”. Especially when you consider that the contact time between ball and racket on average only four milliseconds is! The transfertime from the hand of the central nervous system, where the contact is registered, is longer than the contact time itself, if the player deliberately perceives the meeting, the ball is already underway to opponents. Therefore, the meeting moment nothing more correct and also not in the short period before it.

Grip forehand side
In the presence of both moving forward and meeting point inwards (increasingly gebeugter arm in the elbow) with increasing right-hand turn toward Western grip. This fact is very important because it affects not only the strike movement, but also the swirl intensity of the ball and the racquet Ausschwungrichtung. As the venue is shifted to the back (to the continental grip), the more space is for a predominantly horizontal movement rackets are available for the ball speed is important, but the less room for a “by-down-to-top” movement, which decides on the spin. This vertical motion until quite late.

Continental grip
That is why, for example, the continental grip on the presence in the modern tennis completely inappropriate, because so little topspin right to beat and with the bat only with difficulty under the correct venue comes. Moreover, with this handle a considerable burden on the wrist, because the palm practically lies on the handle and the ball is very little resistance by the hand is set. The elbow joint is burdened with that because you handle only durchgestrecktem arm to beat. In addition to moving the meeting point too far to the right and backward by gravity.

Western Grip
This handle is the second extreme case. The venue is shifted far from the body. This brings in benefits for the topspin, because during the strike movement enough room for the downward and upward movement of the club head in front of the venue, but the ball loses speed, because he is at the end of a mostly horizontal motion racket in a strongly growing emerging leadership racket hit . Then follows the “Scheibenwischerausschwung”, which is a natural consequence of the movement of the Ellbogelenks (pronation) and Schultergelenks (internal rotation of the upper arm) in this phase.

Eastern grip, semi-Western grip
From the above, it is clear that the presence SchlägerhaItung one between these two extreme types handle is recommended. Here are the Eastern and the semi-Western grip, which could be meaningful limits can be. And in fact recommended for the modern forehand best to handle about near or between these two types of grip. Thus, the best time on his forehand player Pete Sampras of the world’s lethal forehand strokes “shot” and then shoots today Roger Federer regularly from his opponents. Between the above mentioned two types of grip is enough space for individual creation and adaptation.