{"id":47065,"date":"2024-10-27T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47065"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:42:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:42:39","slug":"the-overhead-%e6%89%a3%e6%9d%80-%e9%ab%98%e5%8e%8b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47065","title":{"rendered":"The overhead \u6263\u6740"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=26691\">To improve<\/a> my tennis, alongside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45246\">overhauling the serve<\/a>, I also work on my overheads.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/mL_wwox_6PA?feature=share\">2025<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A tennis overhead is a powerful, overhead smash used to finish points against lobs, involving tracking the ball, getting sideways, bringing the racket up (like a serve), extending to hit the ball in front of you with a pronating wrist for power and spin, and following through down and across your body, focusing on keeping your head up and eyes on the ball for maximum effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Key steps to hitting an overhead smash:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Preparation &amp; footwork:<\/li>\n<li>Track the ball: Use your non-hitting hand (left for righties) to point at and track the ball overhead, keeping your eye on it.<\/li>\n<li>Get sideways: Pivot your body so your shoulders, hips, and feet are turned sideways (like a serve) to get behind the ball.<\/li>\n<li>Use crossover steps: For deep lobs, use crossover steps (front foot crosses over back foot) to move back quickly and get in position.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To improve my tennis, alongside the overhauling the serve, I also work on my overheads. 2025 A tennis overhead is a powerful, overhead smash used to finish points against lobs, involving tracking the ball, getting sideways, bringing the racket up (like a serve), extending to hit the ball in front of you with a pronating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}