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Improve Your Tennis Swing

While tennis requires an ability to hit the ball and run from side to side in order to keep the ball in play, the tennis swing is where a player's real skill shows. Poor swings will send the ball into the net or out of play, and can even contribute to pulled back and leg muscles and conditions like tendonitis and tennis elbow. So time spent trying to perfect your swing won't just make you a better tennis player, it help protect you're from tennis injuries.

When you're waiting for a return ball, hold your tennis racquet back. As you move into position, you might be tempted to move your tennis racquet around, but keeping it back is the best way to be prepared for your return swing.

When preparing to return the ball once you're in position, standing sideways comfortably, hold the tennis racquet at about waist height. Put yourself in a position where the ball isn't going to come in close to your body. If the ball is too close, the swing won't be a good one and chances are that the ball will go out of bounds or at least not where you'd like to put it. Position yourself so that when the ball reaches you, it'll come in at waist height just as your tennis racquet is. If you realize it's lower, don't dip down with your tennis racquet, instead bend your knee and lower the tennis racquet with your body so that your swing can stay the same.

The only way to learn to judge how to position yourself so that the ball isn't too close to your body when it drops and that it comes to you at about waist height so that you can return it from the center of your tennis racket is to practice as much as possible. Keep your eye on the ball until the moment it hits your racquet, and this will help you improve your swing, your position and your aim as you learn to judge the ball's velocity and drop spot.

When you're in position, you'll want the ball to make contact with your tennis racket at waist level . Move the racket toward the ball, keeping the racket at waist height as you move it. Don't bend or straighten your elbow, but rather rotate your shoulders for a proper swing. Contact between the ball and the tennis racket should happen with the face of tennis racket square with the ball.

Now that you've hit the ball, a smooth follow through should sent the face of your tennis racquet up from the contact with the ball and around to a spot above your opposite shoulder. Halting the movement too soon can alter the trajectory of the ball, and even cause injury, so follow through is important.

Keep your rear toe down, and your tennis racquet face flat facing your opponent the entire time you rotate your shoulders so that you end up with your chest facing your opponent.

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