{"id":47089,"date":"2025-11-04T18:08:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47089"},"modified":"2025-11-04T19:45:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:45:34","slug":"closed-face-forehand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47089","title":{"rendered":"Closed face forehand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46879\">A Slinger day<\/a>. Talking about the closed face-down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43689\">forehand<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47081\">coach has been<\/a> preaching for a while, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47080\">but only this time<\/a> it sticks. The transition from whatever the form I had before to the closed face forehand is easy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_6011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47094\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_6011-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_6014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47092\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_6014-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_6012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47093\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_6012-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/0SvvDra9m6g?si=afdmAyG7YP9BGe_n\">position<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/HaujmClOKs4?si=D9x7Rtegf9KnU_9-\">side by side<\/a> closed v open<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/gcbh1hKavx0?si=b8pDtJo3jrbeKqu3\">4 steps<\/a> so so<\/li>\n<li>analysis of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/ieBeMTwRPtk?si=21P2LQKRcxGOZS1j\">Roger<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/9JZmjjcq-IM?si=vs9mXzTAEdbFzS_B\">Grigor Dimitrov<\/a> &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QAcBgVZheDo?si=54IQ250vOhtxZ-S_\">on his side<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>wides split step<\/li>\n<li>turns w\/ the left hand on the racket<\/li>\n<li>left arm is parallel to the baseline<\/li>\n<li>tip of the racket points to the right<\/li>\n<li>tip of the racket points to the left (behind)<\/li>\n<li>swings inside-out to contact<\/li>\n<li>contact out and in front of the body<\/li>\n<li>finish high (meet left hand on shoulder)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to AI, the advantage of a closed-face forehand can lead to generating a flatter shot with more pace, as well as powerful topspin with heavy, jumping shots. It also allows for a longer stroke through the hitting zone and can be easier to control for players with slight timing issues. However, a closed-face forehand can be harder to master, especially when dealing with high balls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/Vhx09JfH_KA?feature=share\">forehand<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"closed face forehand so I thought\" width=\"405\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6rmkMXrdghk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; fore and back hands<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"closed face forehand &amp; backhand\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RQlrrXTzfz8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and two serves: how to get rid of the tray???<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#serve still tray\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a1uVMeaxmSw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Slinger day. Talking about the closed face-down forehand, the coach has been preaching for a while, but only this time it sticks. The transition from whatever the form I had before to the closed face forehand is easy. \u00a0 position side by side closed v open 4 steps so so analysis of\u00a0Roger Grigor Dimitrov [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47089","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=47089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}