The Contact Moves Revisited: Building Points

What are the Contact Moves associated with building points? In this new series for Tennisplayer, we are looking at the incredible variety of movement patterns in pro tennis, and specifically, the concept of the Contact Move, which describes how the feet and body move before, during, and after the hit. (For an introduction to the Contact Move concept, Click Here.) My life's work in researching tennis movement has established that there are 15 Contact Moves used by elite players. These contact moves have four categories: Attacking, Building, Counter-Attacking and Defensive Contact Moves. In the last article we looked at the aggressive Contact Moves when players are looking to finish the point or force a weak reply to finish with the next ball. (Click Here.) Now let's look at the second category, what I call the Building Contact Moves. The Building Moves are used when players are standing their ground in rallies, looking to maneuver their opponents in order to open the court, and/or trying to generate a response from the opponent to go on the attack. There are four Building Contact Moves. Let's look at them in detail. Building Contact Moves: 1. Low Spin 2. High Spin 3. Lateral Hop...