Forehand Shot Making

The difference between a stroke and a shot: movement and placement. Stroke technique is obviously critical in developing your forehand. But it amazes me how many people focus primarily on technique without realizing the forehand is not only a stroke, it's a shot. What type of incoming ball are you hitting, where do you move to hit it, and where on the court are you trying hit it yourself? These are the issues every player must deal with on virtually every ball in match play. Yet junior players sometimes work for years on their forehands without addressing these basic questions. Sometimes they never develop the ability to make simple placements and/or make repeated errors on certain types of balls that should be routine. Amazingly, you often see these exact problems with the forehands of adults at the club level who have played and even taken lessons for many years. Five Shot Categories: 1. High Deep Forehands  2. Wide Running Forehands  3. Inside Out and Inside In Forehands  4. Short High Put Aways  5. Side-T Angles  Training Shot Making I feel that shot making must be trained from the beginning in player development. Developing court movement and positioning are the critical...