Forehand topspin off backspin doubts

Hi Alois and Pingskills

i have serius doubts about the forehand topspin off backspin, i saw your video and i could see that the finish position that adopts Jeff is like if he stand up...my question, Is necessary do this to lift the ball over the net, is effective, or just must to use the speed of the forearm? i saw a lot videos and i don't see to a professional adopting this finish position. By the other hand from i do this I have less problems against a backspin ball, although against a chopper still is complicated to me...There's no other way to defeat the backspin?

My other doubt is about the curve of my loop...How i can control this?

Please Pingskills help and thanks

Hi Cristh,

The stroke that we show you is one that will work for you to get the ball over the net against backspin.  The stroke that you are seeing the professionals do is a stroke that is advanced that needs a lot more work and skill because they are swinging faster and coming more forward on the stroke to generate speed.  This can only be done with a lot of training to get the timing perfect each time.

So since you are finding the stroke that we show you effective, stay with it.

On the other matter, to stop the ball curving on the topspin you need to make sure that your wrist is straight on contact with the ball.  If you drop the end of your racket the ball will curve to the left.  A good way to correct this is to see if you can get the ball curving the other way.  this will give you a better understanding of your wrist position.