{"id":47272,"date":"2025-12-24T02:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47272"},"modified":"2025-12-24T19:19:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:19:30","slug":"face-the-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47272","title":{"rendered":"Face the ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=47081\">Coach<\/a> comes in and asks, what am I working on w\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=46879\">the Slinger<\/a>. I said &#8220;oh, my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43689\">forehand<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=165\">backhand<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45246\">serve<\/a> &#8230; &#8221; He then offers me a few pointers \/ tips for my forehand:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>face the opponent<\/li>\n<li>left leg moves infront<\/li>\n<li>butt of the racket faces the ball<\/li>\n<li>right leg only pivot<\/li>\n<li>racket faces ground kind of swing<\/li>\n<li>at contact the face of the racket is\n<ul>\n<li>slightly downward: top spin<\/li>\n<li>90\u00b0 &#8211; flat<\/li>\n<li>light facing up: defense, high<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Think I&#8217;ll remember them all?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"forehand December 23, 2025\" width=\"405\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7nhnHFPVa9M?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coach comes in and asks, what am I working on w\/ the Slinger. I said &#8220;oh, my forehand and backhand, and serve &#8230; &#8221; He then offers me a few pointers \/ tips for my forehand: face the opponent left leg moves infront butt of the racket faces the ball right leg only pivot racket [&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-47272","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\/47272","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=47272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}