FH Approach → FH Short · Front
Elena Dementieva's forehand approach shot from the center of the court, filmed from the front. Her quick adjustment steps into the ball lead into a semi-open stance, followed by a pronounced forward crossover step to continue moving into the court.
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6.7s |
FH Approach → OH · Rear
Elena Dementieva's forehand approach shot from a neutral court position, filmed from the rear. After contact she drives her weight forward into the court, with her non-hitting arm opening out for balance before she quickly resets into a ready position near the net.
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7.5s |
BH Approach → OH · Side
Elena Dementieva's backhand approach shot from the middle of the court, filmed from the side. She uses a neutral stance with quick adjustment steps before contact, then takes long forward strides into the court to transition toward the net.
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6.5s |
FH Approach → BH → OH · Side
Elena Dementieva's forehand approach shot followed by a backhand overhead from the center of the court, filmed from the side. From this angle, you can see her semi-western forehand grip creating clear wrist lag on the approach, then a firm continental grip with a pronounced wrist snap upward on the backhand overhead.
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5.7s |
FH Approach → BH Swinging Volley · Side
Elena Dementieva's forehand approach shot from a neutral court position, filmed from the side. Her shoulders rotate well past perpendicular to the net on the unit turn, then her trunk uncoils ahead of the arm swing, making the sequencing of torso and shoulders easy to distinguish.
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7.1s |
FH Approach → FH Volley → OH · Side
Elena Dementieva's forehand approach shot from a neutral court position, filmed from the side. Her hips stay low with a deep knee bend on the loading leg before driving forward, and you can clearly see the hips opening toward the net as she pushes off into the court.
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8.3s |
BH #5
Elena Dementieva's backhand while moving back from a neutral baseline position, filmed from the side. Her two-handed grip stays compact with a firm, stable wrist structure, and you can clearly see minimal wrist flick through contact as the racquet drives through the ball.
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2.9s |
BH Center · Arm-action · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's two-handed backhand from center court, filmed from a front court-level angle. Her relatively firm, square top hand grip and slightly laid-back hitting wrist are easy to see here, with the wrist maintaining its angle through contact before a compact, controlled release.
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2.8s |
BH Center · Arm-action · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the court, filmed from a front court-level angle. Her compact split step transitions quickly into a wide, semi-open stance with active adjustment steps that let her load on the outside leg before driving into the shot.
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2.7s |
BH Center · Arm-action · Court-level-front #3
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the court, filmed from a front court-level angle. Her shoulders rotate as a unit with the trunk on the unit turn, then uncoil with the lead shoulder driving toward the ball while the torso stays relatively closed through contact.
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3s |
BH Center · Arm-action · Court-level-front #4
Elena Dementieva's backhand from center court, filmed from a front court-level angle. Her split-step leads directly into a quick pivot and semi-open stance, with compact adjustment steps aligning her hips and shoulders square to the incoming ball before contact.
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2.8s |
BH Running · Arm-action · Court-level-front
Elena Dementieva's running two-handed backhand from a neutral position, filmed from court-level front. Her contact is taken slightly in front of the body with the racket face close to vertical, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward through the ball for added topspin.
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2.4s |
BH Center · Court-level-front · Closed
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the court in a closed stance, filmed from a front court-level angle. Her feet set on a clear closed alignment with the front foot stepping diagonally into the court before she drives through the shot and then brings the back leg forward as a recovery step toward the center.
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2.7s |
BH Center · Court-level-front · Neutral #1
Elena Dementieva's two-handed backhand from center court in a neutral stance, filmed from a front court-level angle. Her relatively firm grip on both hands is evident, with a noticeable but controlled wrist lag that straightens through contact without excessive wrist snap.
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2.7s |
BH Center · Court-level-front · Neutral #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center in a neutral stance, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her two-handed backhand contact is made around waist height with a slightly closed racket face, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward through the ball.
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2.9s |
BH Center · Court-level-front · Open
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the court in an open stance, filmed from a front court-level angle. Her shoulders rotate as a unit with the trunk to create a noticeable coil on the takeback, then uncoil in sequence from hips to shoulders through contact, making the degree of upper-body rotation easy to compare between preparation and follow-through.
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2.7s |
BH Center · Court-level-front · Open #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the baseline in an open stance, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her quick split step into a wide open stance is followed by a strong push off the outside leg and a small recovery shuffle back toward the center.
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2.7s |
BH Half Volley · Court-level-front
Elena Dementieva's backhand half volley from the center of the court, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her two-handed grip stays compact with minimal wrist deviation, and the lead wrist remains firm through contact to stabilize the short reaction shot.
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2.3s |
BH Inside Out · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the middle of the court, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her two-handed grip is clearly visible, with the dominant right hand driving a firm wrist through contact while the left hand supports a stable, slightly laid-back wrist position to control the inside-out direction.
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2.5s |
Backhand · Inside-out #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand inside-out from the middle of the court, filmed from a front court-level angle. Her racket face stays relatively square through contact at about waist height, with the racket head accelerating up and across her body on a steep, topspin-heavy path.
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2.6s |
BH Moves Back · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand while moving back from a neutral baseline position, filmed from a court-level front angle. At contact her racket face stays almost square to the ball with a slightly closed angle and the strike point is around waist to mid-torso height, with the racket head accelerating steeply up the back of the ball.
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2.7s |
BH Moves Back · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand while moving back from a neutral baseline position, filmed from a front court-level angle. Her hips stay relatively closed to the net as she loads, with a deep knee bend and strong push off the outside leg to stabilize while retreating.
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2.6s |
BH Moves Back · Court-level-front #3
Elena Dementieva's backhand while moving back from a central baseline position, filmed from a court_level front angle. Her follow-through finishes high with the non-hitting hand releasing the racquet and extending back, and she quickly regroups into a neutral ready stance with weight settling evenly on both feet.
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2.5s |
BH Running · Court-level-front
Elena Dementieva's running two-handed backhand from a neutral court position, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her semi-closed two-handed backhand grip is clear, with the dominant hand staying relaxed enough to create wrist lag before contact and then firming up into a stable, slightly laid-back wrist at impact.
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3.6s |
BH Wide · Court-level-front · Closed #1
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from the front of the court, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her closed stance makes the early shoulder turn and strong trunk coil easy to see, along with a pronounced uncoiling of the torso that leads the arms through contact.
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3.1s |
BH Wide · Court-level-front · Closed #2
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from a closed stance on the baseline, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her closed hips and strong knee bend are evident as she drives off the outside leg to recover back toward the court after contact.
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2.9s |
BH Wide · Court-level-front · Closed #3
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from a closed stance on the baseline, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her two-handed backhand contact is made slightly in front of her body with a relatively square racket face, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward through the ball to add heavy topspin.
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2.7s |
BH Wide · Court-level-front · Neutral
Elena Dementieva's backhand from a wide neutral-stance position, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her follow-through finishes high with the racquet wrapping across her body as her weight transfers onto the front foot and her non-hitting hand quickly returns to a ready position.
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2.6s |
BH Wide · Court-level-front · Open #1
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from the deuce side, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her open stance is clear as she plants her outside foot, rotates her hips while staying mostly square to the net, and then uses quick recovery steps to push back toward the center.
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2.8s |
BH Wide · Court-level-front · Open #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand from a wide ball in an open stance, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her hips stay relatively open to the net while a strong knee bend and push from the outside leg are clearly visible as she drives laterally into the shot.
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2.7s |
BH · Court-level-rear
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a court-level rear angle. Her shoulders and trunk show a pronounced early coil with the chest turning well past 90 degrees, followed by a coordinated uncoil where the hips initiate and the upper torso lags slightly before catching up through contact.
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2.7s |
BH Wide · Arm-action · Court-level-side #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand from a wide court position, filmed from a court level side angle. Her hips stay relatively closed to the net as she loads, with a deep knee bend and strong push off the outside leg driving her into the shot and back toward the center.
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3.3s |
BH Wide · Arm-action · Court-level-side #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand from a wide position, filmed from a court-level side angle. Her follow-through carries both hands high across her body while her weight continues moving toward the sideline, and she quickly drops the racquet to reset into a ready position.
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3.9s |
BH Wide · Arm-action · Court-level-side #3
Elena Dementieva's backhand from a wide position, filmed from a court level side angle. Her hips stay relatively closed to the net as she loads with a deep knee bend on the outside leg, then drive forward with a noticeable push off that leg into the shot.
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2.7s |
BH Wide · Arm-action · Court-level-side #4
Elena Dementieva's backhand from a wide position, filmed from court_level_side. From this angle you can clearly see her firm two-handed grip with the non-dominant (left) hand driving the stroke and a stable wrist with minimal post-contact wrist flick.
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2.7s |
BH Lob · Court-level-side
Elena Dementieva's backhand lob from the baseline, filmed from a court-level side angle. Her quick adjustment steps position her under the ball before she shifts into a slightly open stance to lift the lob up and over her opponent.
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3.7s |
BH Center · Front · Closed
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the court in a closed stance, filmed from the front. After contact her follow-through finishes high with the racquet over her front shoulder as her weight moves onto the front foot and her hands reset quickly into a compact ready position.
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3.1s |
BH Center · Front · Neutral #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the court in a neutral stance, filmed from the front. Her hips stay relatively closed to the net as she loads, with a noticeable knee bend and upward leg drive that straightens through contact.
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2.2s |
BH Center · Front · Neutral #2
Elena Dementieva's two-handed backhand from a central neutral-stance position, filmed from the front. From this angle you can see her relatively firm, compact wrist structure on both hands, with minimal wrist lag and a stable, square hitting wrist through contact.
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2.3s |
BH Center · Front · Open #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the court in an open stance, filmed from the front. Her two-handed grip shows the dominant hand in a firm continental position with noticeable wrist stability through contact and only a slight release of the wrists after follow-through.
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2.6s |
BH Center · Front · Open #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a front angle. Her open stance is clear as both feet stay roughly parallel to the baseline while she plants, loads on the outside leg, and then uses small recovery steps to return to a neutral position after contact.
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2.1s |
BH Half Volley · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand half volley from the front of the court, filmed from a front angle. Her follow-through finishes high with the racquet out in front as she quickly brings both hands back toward her torso to recover into a compact ready position.
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2.7s |
BH Half Volley · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand half-volley from the center of the court, filmed from the front. Her racket face stays slightly open at a low contact point below net height, with a short, compact swing path that keeps the racket head moving steadily through the ball.
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2s |
BH Inside In · Front
Elena Dementieva's backhand InsideIn from the center of the baseline, filmed from the front. After contact her follow-through finishes high with the racquet over her front shoulder as she transfers weight onto her lead leg and quickly brings both hands back toward a neutral ready position.
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3.1s |
BH Moves Back · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the baseline, filmed from the front. Her hips stay relatively closed as she moves back, with a deep knee bend on the outside leg providing a stable base before she drives upward into the shot.
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2.6s |
BH Moves Back · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand while moving back from a central baseline position, filmed from the front. From this angle you can see her shoulders rotate well past perpendicular to the net on the unit turn, then uncoil in sequence with the trunk driving forward before the arms release through contact.
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2.9s |
BH Moves Back · Front #3
Elena Dementieva's backhand while moving back from a central baseline position, filmed from the front. Her two-handed backhand uses a firm, closed continental-like left-hand grip with noticeable wrist lag that sets up a late, sharp wrist release through contact.
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2.3s |
BH Running · Front
Elena Dementieva's running backhand from the center of the court, filmed from the front. Her hips stay relatively closed as she moves laterally, with a deep knee bend on the outside leg providing the main push-off into the shot.
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2.7s |
BH Short · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the middle of the court, filmed from the front. Her racket face is nearly square to the ball at contact, with the contact point around waist height and the racket head accelerating steeply upward through the hitting zone.
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3.8s |
BH Short · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the short court position, filmed from the front. Her compact split step leads into a wide, stable base in a neutral stance, with quick adjustment steps bringing her into position before she drives through the ball.
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3.3s |
BH Short · Front #3
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center, filmed from the front. Her hips stay relatively closed at contact while a strong knee bend and upward leg drive from the front leg are clearly visible in the short court positioning.
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3s |
BH Short · Front #4
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the court, filmed from the front. Her two-handed grip is clearly visible with a firm, closed racket face and minimal wrist flex, keeping the wrists stable through contact with only a slight release after impact.
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2.3s |
BH Short · Front #5
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the short court position, filmed from the front. Her two-handed follow-through finishes high with the non-hitting hand releasing the racquet early as she transfers weight forward into a balanced, ready stance for recovery.
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2.4s |
BH Wide · Front · Closed #1
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from a closed stance, filmed from the front. Her racket face is slightly closed at contact with the ball struck around waist height, and the two-handed swing drives up and across the body with noticeable racket head acceleration through the hitting zone.
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2.8s |
BH Wide · Front · Closed #2
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from a closed stance, filmed from the front. Her two-handed grip is clearly visible, with the non-dominant hand driving the racket and a stable wrist structure that minimizes excessive wrist snap through contact.
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3.2s |
BH Wide · Front · Neutral #1
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from a neutral stance, filmed from the front. Her hips stay relatively square to the net while her knees sink into a deep bend, with a strong push off the outside leg to drive back toward the court after contact.
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2.3s |
BH Wide · Front · Neutral #2
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from a neutral stance, filmed from the front. The contact point is slightly in front of her body with the racket face nearly square to the ball, and you can see the racket head accelerate on a low-to-high path through contact.
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2.7s |
BH Wide · Front · Open #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand from a wide position, filmed from the front. Her open stance is clear as she plants her outside foot, loads on the right leg, and uses quick lateral recovery steps to push back toward the center after contact.
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2.5s |
BH Wide · Front · Open #2
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from the front in an open stance, filmed from a front angle. After contact she finishes with the racquet wrapping high across her body while her weight continues to shift toward the court and her non-hitting hand starts to extend back into a ready position.
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2.4s |
BH Wide · Front · Open #3
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from the front court position, filmed from a front angle. Her open stance is clear as she plants her outside foot, uses a quick lateral shuffle to reach the wide ball, and then takes small recovery steps back toward the center.
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2.6s |
BH Wide · Front · Open #4
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from an open stance, filmed from the front. From this angle you can clearly see her firm two-handed grip with the non-dominant hand driving the racquet and a stable wrist position that stays relatively quiet through contact with only a subtle pronation after impact.
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2.5s |
BH Center · Arm-action · Rear
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. At contact her racket face is almost perfectly square to the incoming ball with the contact point around waist height, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward along the baseline to create strong topspin.
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3.5s |
BH Running · Arm-action · Rear
Elena Dementieva's running two-handed backhand from the center court position, filmed from a rear angle. Her relatively firm grip on both hands is visible in the limited wrist lag on the takeback, with a pronounced wrist release and slight forearm pronation through contact as she hits on the run.
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2.9s |
BH Wide · Arm-action · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from the center baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her follow-through finishes high with the racket wrapping around her left shoulder as her weight drives into the court and she quickly releases the non-hitting hand to reset into a ready position.
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2.8s |
BH Wide · Arm-action · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand from a wide court position, filmed from a rear angle. Her hips stay relatively closed as she drives out to the wide ball, with a deep knee bend on the outside leg providing the push-off into the shot.
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2.4s |
BH Wide · Arm-action · Rear #3
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from the center baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her shoulders rotate substantially past perpendicular to the net on the unit turn, then uncoil in sequence with the trunk so that the chest squares to the contact point just after impact.
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2.7s |
BH Center · Rear · Neutral
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the court in a neutral stance, filmed from a rear angle. Her two-handed grip is clearly visible, with the non-dominant left hand driving the racquet and the wrists staying firm with minimal wrist snap through contact.
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2.1s |
BH Center · Rear · Open
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the court in an open stance, filmed from a rear angle. Her two-handed backhand contact is made around waist height with a slightly closed racket face and a steep, accelerating upward swing path through the ball.
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2.7s |
Backhand · Inside-in
Elena Dementieva's backhand inside-in from the center of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. At contact her racket face is almost perfectly square to the target with the contact point slightly in front of her lead hip, and the racket head accelerating upward on a steep low-to-high path.
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2.6s |
BH Inside Out Center · Rear
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the court, filmed from a rear angle. She plants in a mostly neutral stance with a small adjustment step before contact, then uses quick crossover recovery steps to get back to her central baseline position.
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2.7s |
BH Moves Back · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand while moving back from the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her follow-through finishes high with the non-hitting hand releasing the racquet early as she transfers weight onto the outside leg to recover back into a neutral ready position.
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3s |
BH Moves Back · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand while moving back from the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her contact point is slightly in front of her body with the racket face nearly square to the baseline, and the upward swing path of the two-handed racket head is clearly visible through and after impact.
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2.6s |
BH Moves Back · Rear #3
Elena Dementieva's backhand while moving back from a central baseline position, filmed from a rear angle. Her quick adjustment steps backward set up a semi-open stance, with her right foot planting slightly behind to stabilize before she drives through the two-handed swing.
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2.4s |
BH Running · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's running backhand from the center baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her footwork features a quick adjustment shuffle into a semi-open stance followed by strong lateral recovery steps back toward the middle after contact.
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2.2s |
BH Running · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's running backhand from the rear court, filmed from a rear angle. Her hips stay relatively closed to the baseline as she sprints wide, with a pronounced bend in the outside knee before she drives upward and across into the shot.
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2.6s |
BH Running · Rear #3
Elena Dementieva's running backhand from the rear court, filmed from a rear angle. Her shoulders and trunk rotate as a single unit during the unit turn, then uncoil aggressively through contact, with the upper body continuing to rotate well into the follow-through despite her lateral movement.
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3s |
BH Running · Rear #4
Elena Dementieva's running backhand from the Rear court position, filmed from a rear angle. Her follow-through finishes high across her body while her weight continues moving toward the sideline, and she quickly brings both hands back to a neutral ready position after contact.
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2.8s |
BH Short · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the court, filmed from a rear angle. Her hips stay relatively closed at the start of the swing, with a deep knee bend and strong upward leg drive as she uncoils into the shot.
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3.1s |
BH Short · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the baseline, filmed from the rear. Her shoulders rotate almost perpendicular to the net on the unit turn, with a noticeable trunk coil that uncoils ahead of the arm swing to initiate the kinetic chain into contact.
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2.9s |
BH Short · Rear #3
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. After contact she finishes with her racquet wrapping over her right shoulder while her weight moves into the court and her non-hitting hand quickly returns to the handle as she resets into a ready position.
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2.6s |
BH Short · Rear #4
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her quick split step into a semi-open stance leads into a strong push off the outside leg, followed by small adjustment steps to recover back toward the middle.
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2.4s |
BH Short · Rear #5
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her two-handed backhand uses a firm, compact wrist structure with minimal wrist flexion through contact, making the stable grip alignment especially clear from this view.
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3s |
BH Wide · Rear · Closed
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from a closed stance on the baseline, filmed from the rear. Her closed hips and strong knee bend on the outside leg are clearly visible as she plants and drives laterally into the ball.
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2.6s |
BH Wide · Rear · Neutral #1
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from a neutral stance, filmed from a rear angle. The racket face stays relatively closed at contact with the ball struck around waist height, and the rear view makes the upward acceleration of the racket head along the swing path clearly visible.
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2.7s |
BH Wide · Rear · Neutral #2
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from a neutral stance, filmed from a rear angle. Her racket face stays relatively closed at contact with the ball struck around waist height, and the two-handed swing path accelerates steeply upward through the hitting zone.
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3.4s |
BH Wide · Rear · Neutral #001
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from a neutral stance, filmed from a rear angle. Her shoulders rotate well past perpendicular to the baseline on the unit turn, with a pronounced trunk coil that uncoils ahead of the arms to start the forward swing.
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3s |
BH Wide · Rear · Neutral #3
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from a neutral stance, filmed from a rear angle. Her racket meets the ball slightly in front of her body with a closed face and a steep low-to-high swing path, showing strong racket head acceleration through contact.
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3s |
BH Wide · Rear · Open #1
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from an open stance, filmed from the rear. Her two-handed backhand grip is clearly visible, with the non-dominant (left) hand driving the stroke and a firm but relaxed wrist structure that stays stable through contact with only a slight pronation after impact.
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3s |
BH Wide · Rear · Open #2
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from the center baseline, filmed from a rear angle. She plants in an open stance with her outside foot loading first, then uses quick crossover recovery steps back toward the middle after contact.
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3.1s |
BH Wide · Rear · Open #3
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from an open stance on the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her shoulders rotate well past perpendicular to the net on the unit turn, then her trunk uncoils ahead of the arms so the torso leads the racquet through contact toward the wide target.
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2.5s |
BH Wide · Rear · Open #4
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from an open stance on the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her shoulders and trunk coil strongly against the hips before contact, then uncoil in a clear sequence where the torso rotation leads the racquet swing through the hitting zone.
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2.7s |
BH Wide · Arm-action · Side
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from the side. Her shoulders rotate as a single unit with her trunk on the unit turn, then uncoil aggressively through contact with noticeable separation between hip and shoulder lines just before impact.
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2.7s |
BH Center · Side · Closed
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the baseline in a closed stance, filmed from the side. Her shoulders rotate well past perpendicular to the net on the unit turn, with a pronounced trunk coil that uncoils sequentially from hips to shoulders just before contact.
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2.5s |
BH Center · Side · Neutral #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the court in a neutral stance, filmed from the side. Her hips stay relatively closed to the net at contact while a strong knee bend and upward leg drive are clearly visible during the loading and hitting phases.
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2.5s |
BH Center · Side · Neutral #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the court in a neutral stance, filmed from the side. After contact her follow-through finishes high with the racquet wrapping around her non-dominant shoulder as her weight transfers forward into the court and she quickly resets her feet into a ready position.
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2.6s |
BH Center · Side · Neutral #3
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center in a neutral stance, filmed from the side. Her two-handed backhand contact is made slightly in front of her lead hip with a relatively closed racket face and a steep low-to-high swing path that accelerates the racket head through the ball.
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2.8s |
BH Center · Side · Neutral #4
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the court in neutral stance, filmed from the side. Her shoulders load with a pronounced upper-body turn before contact, then her trunk uncoils in sync with her hip rotation to drive the two-handed swing through the ball.
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2.8s |
BH Center · Side · Neutral #5
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center in a neutral stance, filmed from the side. Her hips stay relatively closed to the net as she loads with a deep knee bend, then drive upward through her legs to initiate rotation into the shot.
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2.2s |
BH Center · Side · Neutral #6
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center in a neutral stance, filmed from the side. Her follow-through carries the racquet high across her body while her weight transfers onto the front foot, quickly bringing her back to a ready position on the baseline.
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2.5s |
BH Center · Side · Open #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the court in an open stance, filmed from the side. Her two-handed contact point is slightly in front of her lead hip with the racket face close to vertical, and the racket head accelerating on a low-to-high path through the ball.
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3.2s |
BH Center · Side · Open #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the court in an open stance, filmed from the side. Her follow-through carries both hands high across her body while her weight transfers onto the front foot, quickly bringing her back to a neutral ready position.
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2.5s |
BH Center · Side · Open #3
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the court in an open stance, filmed from the side. Her hips stay relatively closed at load with a deep knee bend, then unwind as her legs drive up and forward into the shot.
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2.6s |
BH Center · Side · Open #4
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the center of the baseline, filmed from the side. Her open stance is clear as she plants her outside foot early, then uses a quick recovery step back toward the middle after contact.
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3.1s |
BH Inside In · Side
Elena Dementieva's backhand InsideIn from the baseline, filmed from the side. Her side-on movement shows a quick adjustment step into a semi-open stance before contact, followed by a strong lateral recovery back toward the center.
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2.6s |
BH Inside Out · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand InsideOut from the side, filmed from a side angle. After contact her follow-through wraps high across her body while her weight drives into the court, and she quickly resets her feet into a neutral ready position for the next shot.
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2.8s |
BH Inside Out · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand InsideOut from the side, filmed from a side angle. Her shoulders rotate nearly perpendicular to the baseline on the unit turn, with a pronounced trunk coil that uncoils ahead of the arms to initiate the kinetic chain into contact.
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2.6s |
BH Moves Back · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand while moving back from the baseline, filmed from the side. Her shoulders rotate as a unit with the trunk into a deep coil on the unit turn, then uncoil in a clearly sequenced motion from hips and torso through the shoulders into the racquet.
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2.6s |
BH Moves Back · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand while moving back from a neutral baseline position, filmed from the side. Her footwork features quick adjustment steps as she retreats and sets into a mostly neutral stance before driving through the ball and recovering toward the center.
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3.4s |
BH Moves Back · Side #3
Elena Dementieva's backhand while moving back from a neutral baseline position, filmed from a side angle. Her follow-through finishes high with the racket wrapping around her lead shoulder as her weight continues drifting backward, and she quickly resets her feet into a wider stance with both hands returning to the racquet in ready position.
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3.1s |
BH Moves Back · Side #4
Elena Dementieva's backhand while moving back from a neutral baseline position, filmed from the side. Her two-handed grip is clearly visible with a firm, closed racquet face and pronounced wrist lag that straightens into a strong, stable position just before contact.
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3.2s |
BH Running · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's running backhand from the side, filmed from a side angle. Her shoulders rotate well past perpendicular to the net on the unit turn, then the trunk uncoils ahead of the arms so the racquet lags and whips through contact as her torso continues moving forward.
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3.1s |
BH Running · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's running backhand from the side, filmed from a side angle. Her quick adjustment steps into a semi-open stance and the extended last stride with her outside leg are clearly visible as she chases the ball laterally.
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2.8s |
BH Running · Side #3
Elena Dementieva's running backhand from the side, filmed from a side angle. At contact her racket face is slightly closed with the ball meeting the strings around waist height, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward along the swing path.
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2.6s |
BH Running · Side #4
Elena Dementieva's running backhand from the side, filmed from a side angle. Her racket face stays relatively closed at contact with the ball struck around waist height, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward along the swing path.
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3.9s |
BH Short · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the side, filmed from a side angle. At contact her racket face is almost perfectly vertical with the ball meeting the strings around waist height, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward along the baseline direction after impact.
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2.6s |
BH Short · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand from the short court position, filmed from the side. Her shoulders load with a pronounced upper-body turn before contact, then her trunk uncoils ahead of the arms, making the sequencing of torso rotation into the two-handed swing easy to distinguish.
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3.1s |
BH Wide · Side · Closed #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand from a wide position, filmed from a side angle. She plants her feet in a distinctly closed stance as she moves out to the wide ball, with her rear foot driving off the court surface to help her recover back toward the baseline after contact.
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3.1s |
BH Wide · Side · Closed #2
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from a closed stance on the side of the court, filmed from the side. Her hips stay relatively closed to the net while a deep knee bend and strong lateral push off the outside leg are clearly visible as she moves into and through contact.
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2.6s |
BH Wide · Side · Closed #3
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from the side, hit from a closed stance. After contact she drives her weight through the front leg and finishes with her racquet wrapping across her body while her non-hitting hand quickly returns toward a neutral ready position.
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3.2s |
BH Wide · Side · Neutral #1
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from a neutral stance on the baseline, filmed from the side. Her two-handed grip is firm with a laid-in bottom hand and a relaxed top hand, creating noticeable wrist lag that unloads into a compact wrist snap right through contact.
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2.7s |
BH Wide · Side · Neutral #2
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from a neutral stance, filmed from the side. Her follow-through carries her racquet up and across her body as her weight transfers into the court, with her non-hitting hand extending back to help her recover quickly toward a ready position.
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2.6s |
BH Wide · Side · Neutral #3
Elena Dementieva's backhand from a wide neutral-stance position, filmed from the side. Her hips stay relatively closed to the net as she drives off a strong outside leg load, with noticeable knee bend before extending up and into the shot.
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2.7s |
BH Wide · Side · Neutral #4
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from a neutral stance, filmed from the side. From this angle you can clearly see her firm two-handed grip with the non-dominant hand driving the stroke and a pronounced wrist lag that straightens through contact.
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2.5s |
BH Wide · Side · Open #1
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from the side in an open stance, filmed from a side angle. Her follow-through finishes high with the racquet wrapping across her body as her weight shifts into the court and her non-hitting hand drops back to help her shoulders unwind into a ready position.
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2.5s |
BH Wide · Side · Open #2
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from the open-stance position, filmed from the side. Her shoulders rotate well past perpendicular to the net on the unit turn, then uncoil in sync with her trunk so that the upper body leads the racquet into contact before releasing fully toward the target.
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2.8s |
BH Wide · Side · Open #3
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from the side, filmed from a side angle. She plants in a strong open stance with her outside foot bracing while her inside foot pivots, and you can clearly see her lateral push-off and recovery step back toward the center after contact.
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2.6s |
BH Wide · Side · Open #4
Elena Dementieva's wide backhand from the open stance, filmed from the side. From this angle you can see an early, deep shoulder turn with the trunk strongly coiled against the hips, then uncoiling in sequence as the shoulders lead the forward swing.
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2.3s |
BH Drop Shot · Rear
Elena Dementieva's backhand drop shot from the center baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her shoulders and trunk stay relatively closed through the takeback, then uncoil minimally with a compact rotation that softens the kinetic chain to take pace off the ball for the drop shot.
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2.5s |
BH Drop Shot · Rear #001
Elena Dementieva's backhand drop shot from the center of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her hips stay relatively closed to the net while her knees flex subtly, with minimal leg drive as she softens her lower body to take pace off the ball.
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2.5s |
First Serve · Ad · Arm-action · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from a court-level front angle. The video clearly shows her tossing arm extending fully upward before dropping as the racket accelerates into a slightly pronated contact point in front of her body.
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3.5s |
First Serve · Ad · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from court level front. Her shoulder line turns noticeably away from the court before contact and then uncoils in sequence with the trunk, making the degree of upper-body rotation and its timing in the kinetic chain easy to distinguish.
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3.6s |
First Serve · Ad · Leg-action · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from court_level front. After contact her weight drives into the court and she lands on her front foot with her tossing arm dropping quickly as she recovers toward a neutral ready position.
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3.9s |
First Serve · Ad · Toss · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from a court-level front angle. The racket face is slightly closed at a contact point above her head, with the racket head accelerating steeply upward along the right side of the ball.
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3.3s |
First Serve · Deuce · Arm-action · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from court-level front. Her shoulder line can be seen rotating strongly away from the net during the trophy phase before the trunk uncoils upward and forward in sequence with the arm swing.
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3.3s |
First Serve · Deuce · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce court, filmed from court-level front. The racket face is slightly pronated at a contact point above head height, with noticeable upward racket head speed through the ball.
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2.8s |
First Serve · Deuce · Leg-action · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her footwork shows a measured ball toss step-in with a pronounced knee bend and upward leg drive, followed by a small landing adjustment step to stabilize her stance on the baseline.
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3.5s |
First Serve · Ad · Court-level-rear #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from a court-level rear angle. From this view you can see her continental grip stay relatively firm while her wrist pronates aggressively through contact, with a distinct snap as the racquet accelerates up and across the ball.
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3.8s |
First Serve · Ad · Leg-action · Court-level-rear #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from a court-level rear angle. From this view you can see a continental grip with a relatively firm wrist and clear pronation through contact, with only a small amount of wrist snap at the end of the motion.
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3.8s |
First Serve · Deuce · Court-level-rear #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from a court-level rear angle. Her shoulders rotate deeply away from the court during the toss, creating a pronounced trunk coil that uncoils sequentially from hips to shoulders as she drives up to contact.
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3.6s |
First Serve · Deuce · Leg-action · Court-level-rear #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce court, filmed from a court-level rear angle. From this view, you can see her continental grip stay firm while her wrist pronates late through contact, with only a subtle wrist snap as her arm extends fully up into the ball.
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3.4s |
First Serve · Ad · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from the front. After contact her racquet finishes across her body while her weight moves into the court, and she quickly brings both hands back to a neutral ready position for the next shot.
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3.2s |
First Serve · Ad · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad side, filmed from the front. Her deep knee bend and strong upward leg drive into the court are clearly visible, with the hips uncoiling aggressively toward the target as she pushes off the ground.
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3.3s |
First Serve · Ad · Front #3
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from the front. Her continental grip and relatively firm wrist are clearly visible, with only a subtle pronation of the forearm and wrist through contact.
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3.3s |
First Serve · Ad · Toss · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from the front. Her continental grip is firm with a slightly extended index finger, and you can clearly see the early wrist pronation starting just after the toss reaches its peak.
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4.5s |
First Serve · Ad · Toss · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the ad court, filmed from a front angle. Her stance starts in a narrow platform position with a small front-foot adjustment during the toss, and she drives up by bending both knees before landing slightly inside the baseline with a short recovery step back.
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4.1s |
First Serve · Deuce · Arm-action · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce court, filmed from the front. From this angle you can see her legs driving up together with a deep knee bend and strong hip extension as she pushes off the ground into the serve.
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3.3s |
First Serve · Deuce · Arm-action · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from the front. After contact her serving arm extends fully toward the target while her weight drives into the court, and she quickly brings both hands back together in front of her body to re-establish a compact ready position.
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3.3s |
First Serve · Deuce · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce court, filmed from the front. At contact her racket face is slightly tilted forward with the ball struck just above full extension, and the racket head accelerates steeply up and across the ball for a pronounced pronation.
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3.3s |
First Serve · Deuce · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce court, filmed from the front. Her continental grip is clearly visible with a relatively firm grip pressure, and you can see early wrist pronation starting just after contact rather than a long wrist lag into the strike.
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3.5s |
First Serve · Deuce · Toss · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from the front. From this angle you can clearly see her relatively tight continental grip and the early wrist pronation beginning as her tossing arm drops and the racquet moves up toward contact.
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3.3s |
First Serve · Deuce · Toss · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from the front. The racket comes up to contact with a slightly closed face and meets the ball at full extension above her head, emphasizing a steep upward swing path through the hit.
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3.2s |
First Serve · Ad · Arm-action · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from a rear angle. From this view you can see her relatively tight continental grip with a firm wrist that stays laid back through the racquet drop before pronating aggressively through contact.
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3.6s |
First Serve · Ad · Arm-action · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad side, filmed from a rear angle. From this view, you can see her shoulders fully rotate away from the court during the toss, with a pronounced trunk coil that unwinds sequentially from hips to shoulders as her arm accelerates up to contact.
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3.6s |
First Serve · Ad · Arm-action · Rear #3
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from a rear angle. From this view you can see her relatively tight continental grip and the early wrist pronation starting just after full racquet drop into the hitting zone.
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3.3s |
First Serve · Ad · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from a rear angle. Her shoulders rotate deeply away from the court during the toss, creating a pronounced trunk coil that then uncoils sequentially from hips to shoulders into contact.
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3.9s |
First Serve · Ad · Toss · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from a rear angle. Her continental grip is evident with a relatively firm wrist that pronates late through contact, creating a noticeable wrist snap just after impact.
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3.2s |
First Serve · Deuce · Arm-action · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce court, filmed from a rear angle. The racket moves up on edge into contact with a slightly closed face, striking the ball at full extension just above her outstretched tossing arm.
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3.3s |
First Serve · Deuce · Arm-action · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from a rear angle. Her follow-through leaves her hitting arm relaxed and descending across her body while her weight moves into the court, bringing her quickly back toward a balanced ready position.
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3.3s |
First Serve · Deuce · Arm-action · Rear #001
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from a rear angle. Her follow-through carries her hitting arm down across her body while her non-hitting hand drops quickly, and she lands into the court with her weight transferring forward toward a neutral ready position.
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3.1s |
First Serve · Deuce · Arm-action · Rear #3
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce court, filmed from a rear angle. Her hips stay relatively closed through the knee bend before driving upward, with strong leg extension visible as she pushes off the ground into the serve.
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3.1s |
First Serve · Deuce · Arm-action · Rear #4
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce court, filmed from a rear angle. Her hips stay relatively closed to the baseline through the knee bend, with a strong upward leg drive that straightens both knees into the contact phase.
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3.4s |
First Serve · Deuce · Arm-action · Rear #5
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from a rear angle. The racket can be seen dropping into a deep backscratch position before driving up to contact with a slightly closed face at full extension above her head.
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3.1s |
First Serve · Deuce · Leg-action · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from the rear. From this angle you can see her relatively tight continental grip and how her wrist stays laid back through the racquet drop before pronating sharply into contact.
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3.6s |
First Serve · Deuce · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce court, filmed from a rear angle. Her footwork includes a small pre-serve adjustment hop into a platform stance, with a clear weight transfer from back to front foot as she drives up into the court.
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3.5s |
First Serve · Deuce · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce court, filmed from a rear angle. Her follow-through carries her momentum diagonally into the court with her non-hitting arm extending forward to aid balance before she resets into a ready position.
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3.3s |
First Serve · Deuce · Toss · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce court, filmed from a rear angle. From this view you can clearly see her shoulders rotate well past perpendicular to the baseline during the toss, creating a pronounced trunk coil that then uncoils sequentially from hips through shoulders into the serving arm.
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3.5s |
First Serve · Ad · Leg-action · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from the side. The side angle makes it easy to see her contact point slightly in front of her body with a relatively closed racket face and an upward swing path accelerating through the ball.
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3.3s |
First Serve · Ad · Leg-action · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the ad court, filmed from the side. Her feet load in a solid platform stance before driving up, with a clear rear-leg push-off and front-leg landing that set up her immediate recovery step toward the baseline.
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3.3s |
First Serve · Ad · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad side, filmed from a side angle. Her deep knee bend and strong upward leg drive into the court are clearly visible as her hips extend and uncoil toward the target.
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3.6s |
First Serve · Ad · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad side, filmed from the side. Her feet set in a mostly neutral stance with a clear front-foot pivot into the court and a pronounced knee bend before she drives up and lands well inside the baseline for recovery.
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2.8s |
First Serve · Ad · Side #3
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court side, filmed from the side. Her deep knee bend and strong upward leg drive are clearly visible, with the hips uncoiling as she pushes off the ground into the serve.
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3.3s |
First Serve · Ad · Side #4
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad side, filmed from the side. Her deep knee bend and strong upward leg drive into the court are clearly visible as her hips open toward the net during the serve motion.
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3.1s |
First Serve · Ad · Toss · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the ad court, filmed from the side. Her shoulders rotate well past perpendicular to the baseline on the trophy phase, with a pronounced trunk coil that uncoils upward and forward in sync with her tossing arm dropping and racquet arm driving up to contact.
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3.2s |
First Serve · Ad · Toss · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from the side. After contact she drives her tossing arm down and into her body as her weight lands on the front foot, finishing with a balanced stance that quickly transitions toward a ready position.
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2.7s |
First Serve · Deuce · Arm-action · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from the side. From this angle you can see her knees flex deeply before leg drive, with her hips staying relatively closed to the net as she pushes up into the serve.
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3.1s |
First Serve · Deuce · Arm-action · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from the side. Her continental grip is paired with a pronounced wrist pronation through contact, with the racquet face clearly rotating from edge-on in the trophy position to a more open position just after impact.
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3.3s |
First Serve · Deuce · Arm-action · Side #3
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from the side. Her racket arm extends fully upward with a slightly closed racket face at contact, struck well above head height, emphasizing a steep upward swing path through the ball.
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3.5s |
First Serve · Deuce · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from the side. Her footwork includes a small front-foot adjustment into a pinpoint stance before driving up, with a pronounced left-leg kick that lands her well inside the court for recovery.
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3.5s |
First Serve · Deuce · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from the side. Her shoulder line turns significantly away from the court during the toss, creating a pronounced trunk coil that unwinds sequentially from hips to shoulders as she drives up to contact.
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2.9s |
First Serve · Deuce · Side #3
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from the side. At contact her racket face is slightly tilted forward with the ball struck just above full extension, and the racket head accelerates steeply up and across the body in a pronounced upward swing path.
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3.2s |
First Serve · Deuce · Side #4
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from the side. After contact she drives her weight into the court, with her non-hitting arm dropping back for balance before she lands and quickly regains a ready position on the baseline.
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3.2s |
First Serve · Deuce · Toss · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's first_serve from the deuce side, filmed from the side. Her deep knee bend and strong upward leg drive into the court are clearly visible as her hips uncoil from a loaded, flexed position into full extension through contact.
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3.2s |
First Serve · Deuce · Toss · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from the side. Her hips stay relatively closed to the net as she bends deeply through the knees, with a pronounced upward leg drive that extends fully through contact.
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3.1s |
First Serve · Deuce · Toss · Side #3
Elena Dementieva's first_serve from the deuce side, filmed from the side. Her footwork shows a measured platform stance with minimal rocking motion before she drives up, and you can clearly see her back leg pushing off the ground as she transfers weight into the court.
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2.6s |
FH Center · Arm-action · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her follow-through finishes high across her body with her non-hitting arm tucking in toward her torso, and she quickly regains a neutral ready position by re-centering her weight on the balls of her feet.
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2.7s |
FH Center · Arm-action · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand from center court, filmed from a front court-level angle. Her hips load in a semi-open position with a deep knee bend, then drive forward as her legs extend explosively into the court through contact.
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2.7s |
FH Moves Back · Arm-action · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from a neutral central position, filmed from court_level front. Her follow-through wraps high across her body while she continues moving backward, with her non-hitting arm extending out for balance before she resets into a ready position.
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2.8s |
FH Moves Back · Arm-action · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand from a central baseline position, filmed from a court-level front angle. At contact her racket face is slightly closed with the ball struck around waist height, and the racket accelerates steeply upward through the hitting zone, producing a pronounced low-to-high swing path.
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3s |
FH Running · Arm-action · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the middle of the court, filmed from a court-level front angle. After contact her follow-through wraps high across her body while her non-hitting arm counterbalances behind her, and she quickly regains a neutral stance to recover for the next shot.
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2.9s |
FH Running · Arm-action · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from a neutral court position, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her semi-western grip is evident in the closed racket face at the bottom of the swing, with pronounced wrist lag that unwinds into a sharp forearm and wrist release through contact.
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3s |
FH Running · Arm-action · Court-level-front #3
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the center of the court, filmed from a court_level front angle. Her shoulders and trunk rotate as a single unit into a deep coil on the unit turn, then uncoil aggressively with the chest driving forward toward contact before the arm whips through.
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2.7s |
FH Wide · Arm-action · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from a wide court position, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her semi-western forehand grip is clearly visible, with pronounced wrist lag on the takeback that unwinds into a strong pronation through contact.
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3s |
FH Wide · Arm-action · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's wide forehand from the deuce side, filmed from court_level front. Her hips stay relatively closed at the start, then rotate aggressively as her knees drive up from a deep bend, with the outside leg pushing hard into the court to reach the wide ball.
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2.9s |
FH Center · Court-level-front · Open
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline in an open stance, filmed from a front court-level angle. Her hips stay relatively open to the net while a strong knee bend and upward leg drive are visible as she pushes off the ground into contact.
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2.4s |
FH Center · Court-level-front · Open #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline in an open stance, filmed from a front court-level angle. Her semi-western grip is evident in the way the racket face is closed at the top of the backswing, with a pronounced wrist lag that unwinds into a sharp pronation through contact.
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2.8s |
FH Center · Court-level-front · Open #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline in an open stance, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her follow-through finishes high across her body with her weight transferring onto the front foot, and she quickly brings both hands back to the racket to reset into a ready position.
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2.6s |
FH Center · Court-level-front · Open #3
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court in an open stance, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her semi-western forehand grip is clear with a laid-back wrist creating noticeable lag before contact, then a pronounced wrist release as the racquet accelerates up and across the ball.
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2.7s |
FH Center · Court-level-front · Open #4
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline in an open stance, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her feet set wide in an open base with a pronounced split-step into a quick pivot, and she uses small adjustment steps to load on the outside leg before rotating through the shot.
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2.9s |
FH Center · Court-level-front · Open #5
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court in an open stance, filmed from a front court-level angle. At contact her racket face is slightly closed with the ball meeting the strings around waist height, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward on a low-to-high path for heavy topspin.
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2.6s |
FH Center · Court-level-front · Open #6
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court in an open stance, filmed from a front court-level angle. At contact her racket face is slightly closed with the ball meeting the strings around waist height, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward along a low-to-high path.
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2.6s |
FH Inside In · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand InsideIn from the middle of the court, filmed from a court_level front angle. At contact her racket face is slightly closed with the ball struck just in front of her lead hip, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward along a low-to-high swing path.
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2.8s |
FH Inside In · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand Inside-In from the center of the court, filmed from a front court-level angle. Her shoulders load with a pronounced turn relative to her hips and then uncoil in sequence, making the trunk rotation and timing of her upper-body release easy to distinguish.
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2.7s |
FH Inside In · Court-level-front #3
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the middle of the court, filmed from a court_level front angle. Her shoulders rotate well past perpendicular to the net on the unit turn, then her trunk uncoils ahead of the arm swing so that the chest is already facing forward at contact.
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3.6s |
FH Inside In · Court-level-front #4
Elena Dementieva's forehand InsideIn from the center of the baseline, filmed from a court_level front angle. After contact her follow-through wraps high across her body while her weight drives into the court, and she quickly resets both hands on the racquet in a neutral ready position.
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2.8s |
FH Moves Back · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand while moving back from a neutral baseline position, filmed from a court_level front angle. Her shoulders and trunk show a pronounced coil on the unit turn, followed by a strong uncoiling sequence where the torso leads the arm swing through contact.
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3s |
FH Moves Back · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand while moving back from a central baseline position, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her contact point is taken slightly in front of her lead hip with the racket face moderately closed, and the upward windshield-wiper swing path accelerates the racket head sharply through contact.
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2.6s |
FH Running · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the center of the court, filmed from a court-level front angle. At contact her racket face is slightly closed with the ball struck around waist height, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward along a low-to-high swing path.
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3.3s |
FH Running · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the center of the court, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her quick adjustment steps into an open stance and immediate crossover recovery step back toward the baseline are clearly visible as she moves through the shot.
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3.1s |
FH Running · Court-level-front #3
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the middle of the court, filmed from a court-level front angle. After contact she finishes with her racquet wrapping high across her body while her weight carries forward into the court, quickly bringing both hands back to a neutral ready position.
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3.6s |
FH Running · Court-level-front #4
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from a neutral position, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her contact point is well in front of her body with the racket face slightly closed and the racket head accelerating steeply upward through the ball.
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3.2s |
FH Running · Court-level-front #5
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the middle of the court, filmed from a court-level front angle. She uses a quick adjustment hop into an open stance before contact, then takes several aggressive recovery steps back toward the center baseline.
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2.9s |
FH Running · Court-level-front #6
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the center of the court, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her quick adjustment steps into an open stance and immediate crossover recovery step back toward the middle are clearly visible as she strikes on the move.
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3s |
FH Short · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the short court, filmed from a court_level front angle. Her shoulders load with a noticeable upper-body coil against the hips before uncoiling into contact, making the degree of trunk rotation and its sequencing into the forward swing especially clear.
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3.9s |
FH Short · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court, filmed from a court-level front angle. After contact she finishes with a high windshield-wiper follow-through and quickly brings both hands back in front of her body to reset into a neutral ready position.
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3.5s |
FH Short · Court-level-front #3
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her quick split-step into a semi-open stance and aggressive first step forward toward the short ball are clearly visible before she drives through and recovers.
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4.2s |
FH Wide · Court-level-front · Open #1
Elena Dementieva's wide forehand from the deuce side in an open stance, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her shoulders load with a pronounced upper-body coil against the hips, then uncoil in sequence so the trunk rotation clearly leads the arm swing through contact.
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2.8s |
FH Wide · Court-level-front · Open #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the deuce side, filmed from a court level front angle. She uses an open stance with a wide base, planting her outside foot firmly and using quick lateral adjustment steps to set up before swinging.
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2.9s |
FH Wide · Court-level-front · Open #3
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the deuce side, filmed from a court-level front angle. She plants in a wide open stance with her outside foot loading heavily before she pushes off laterally to recover back toward the center.
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2.6s |
FH Wide · Court-level-front · Open #4
Elena Dementieva's wide forehand from the deuce side in an open stance, filmed from a court-level front angle. After contact her racquet finishes high across her body while her weight continues moving toward the sideline, and she quickly brings both hands back in front to re-establish a ready position.
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3s |
FH Wide · Court-level-front · Open #5
Elena Dementieva's forehand from a wide position in an open stance, filmed from court-level front. From this angle you can see her semi-western grip setting a strong racket lag with the wrist laid back before uncoiling and pronating through contact.
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3s |
FH Wide · Court-level-front · Open #6
Elena Dementieva's forehand from a wide position in an open stance, filmed from court level front. Her semi-western grip is clear from the racket angle, and you can see pronounced wrist lag into the forward swing before a firm, stable wrist at contact.
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2.6s |
FH Center · Court-level-rear · Open
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court in an open stance, filmed from a rear court-level angle. After contact she finishes with a high windshield-wiper follow-through while her non-hitting hand retracts toward her torso and she quickly resets her feet into a neutral ready position on the baseline.
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2.4s |
FH Half Volley · Court-level-rear
Elena Dementieva's forehand half-volley from a neutral court position, filmed from a court-level rear angle. Her semi-western grip is evident with the racket face slightly closed, and she maintains firm but relaxed wrist stability with minimal wrist snap through the short, compact contact.
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1.7s |
FH Inside Out · Court-level-rear
Elena Dementieva's forehand InsideOut from the center of the baseline, filmed from a court_level rear angle. Her hips load in a closed position with a pronounced knee bend before driving upward and unwinding into an open stance as her legs push through the shot.
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3s |
FH Moves Back · Court-level-rear
Elena Dementieva's forehand from a central baseline position, filmed from a court_level rear angle. Her footwork features a quick split-step into a retreating pattern as she moves back, setting up an open stance before making a strong recovery step toward the center.
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2s |
FH Wide · Court-level-rear
Elena Dementieva's wide forehand from the deuce side, filmed from a court-level rear angle. Her contact point is well in front of her body with the racket face slightly closed, and the upward windshield-wiper swing path produces heavy topspin as the racket accelerates through contact.
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2.7s |
FH Wide · Court-level-rear · Open
Elena Dementieva's wide forehand from the center in an open stance, filmed from a court-level rear angle. Her hips stay relatively open to the net as she loads on her outside leg, with a deep knee bend and strong lateral push off the right leg to reach and drive through the wide ball.
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2.1s |
FH Center · Arm-action · Court-level-side
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a court-level side angle. Her contact point is well in front of her body with the racket face slightly closed, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward through the ball for heavy topspin.
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2.6s |
FH Wide · Arm-action · Court-level-side
Elena Dementieva's forehand from a wide court position, filmed from a court-level side angle. From this side view, her semi-western grip is evident with a pronounced wrist lag on the take-back that unwinds into a strong pronation through contact.
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2.7s |
FH Center · Arm-action · Front
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court, filmed from the front. Her footwork features a quick split-step into an aggressive open stance, with a strong push off the outside leg to load before uncoiling into the shot.
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2.8s |
FH Running · Arm-action · Front
Elena Dementieva's forehand on the run from the baseline, filmed from the front. Her hips stay relatively closed to the net while her knees stay deeply flexed through the loading phase, with a strong push off the outside leg as she drives into the shot.
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2.6s |
FH Center Down The Line · Front · Open
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court in an open stance, filmed from the front. Her shoulders rotate deeply past perpendicular to the net on the unit turn, then the trunk uncoils ahead of the arm swing, with the front view making the separation between hip and shoulder rotation especially clear.
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4.2s |
FH Center Down The Line · Front · Open #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court in an open stance, filmed from the front. Her shoulders rotate as a unit with the trunk into a deep coil, then uncoil aggressively with the chest driving forward toward the target before the arm whips through.
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2.6s |
FH Center · Front · Open #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court, filmed from the front. Her open stance is clear as she plants her outside foot, rotates her hips through contact, and then uses small recovery steps to get ready for the next shot.
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2.6s |
FH Center · Front · Open #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court, filmed from the front. She uses an open stance with a wide base and a quick split step into a short lateral adjustment before rotating her hips into the shot and taking a small recovery step back to the middle.
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3s |
FH Center · Front · Open #3
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court in an open stance, filmed from the front. After contact she finishes with a high windshield-wiper follow-through and quickly brings both hands back toward the racket handle as she regains a neutral ready position.
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3.1s |
FH Center · Front · Open #4
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court in an open stance, filmed from the front. Her contact point is well in front of her body with the racket face slightly closed, and the racket head accelerates upward on a steep low-to-high path through the ball.
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2.1s |
FH Center · Front · Open #5
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court in an open stance, filmed from the front. Her hips stay relatively open toward the net while a deep knee bend and strong leg drive upward and into the court are clearly visible during the forward swing.
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2.9s |
FH Center · Front · Open #6
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court in an open stance, filmed from the front. Her hips stay relatively open to the net while her knees sink into a deep bend before driving upward, with the legs pushing strongly off the ground to initiate trunk rotation into the ball.
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3s |
FH Half Volley · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand half-volley from a central court position, filmed from the front. At contact her racket face is slightly closed with the ball meeting the strings just below waist height, and the compact swing path produces a quick, abbreviated follow-through in front of her body.
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2.5s |
FH Half Volley · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand half-volley from the center of the court, filmed from the front. Her quick adjustment steps bring her low to the ball in a semi-open stance, with a compact split and short recovery steps preparing her to move laterally for the next shot.
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2.7s |
FH Half Volley · Front #3
Elena Dementieva's forehand half-volley from a central position, filmed from the front. Her follow-through finishes high across her body while her non-hitting hand quickly returns toward the racket handle as she pushes her weight forward to recover into a ready stance.
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2.4s |
FH Inside Out · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from the front. After contact her follow-through finishes high across her body while her non-hitting hand extends back for counterbalance before she quickly resets into a neutral ready position.
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2.5s |
FH Inside Out · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the middle of the court, filmed from the front. At contact her racket face is slightly closed with the ball struck around waist height, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward on an inside-out swing path.
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2.2s |
FH Inside Out · Front #3
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from the front. Her quick split step into an open stance followed by a strong lateral push off her outside leg and a couple of small recovery steps back to ready position is clearly visible.
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2.2s |
Forehand · Inside-out #4
Elena Dementieva's inside-out forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from the front. At contact her racket face is slightly closed with the ball struck around waist to chest height, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward along a low-to-high swing path.
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3.3s |
Forehand · Inside-out #5
Elena Dementieva's forehand inside-out from the center of the court, filmed from the front. After contact her racquet finishes high across her body as she steps forward onto her front foot, quickly bringing both hands back to a ready position for the next shot.
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3.7s |
FH Moves Back · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center baseline, filmed from the front. Her footwork features a quick split-step into a retreating shuffle and a predominantly open stance as she moves back to handle the incoming ball.
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3.1s |
FH Moves Back · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand while moving back from a central baseline position, filmed from the front. From this angle you can see a deep shoulder turn with the hitting shoulder dropping slightly below the non-hitting side, followed by a pronounced trunk uncoil that starts before the arm fully accelerates forward.
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2.6s |
FH Moves Back · Front #3
Elena Dementieva's forehand while moving back from the center baseline, filmed from the front. Her semi-western grip is clear from the strong racket face tilt, and you can see a pronounced wrist lag that releases into a sharp forearm and wrist pronation through contact.
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2.5s |
FH Running · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the middle of the court, filmed from a front angle. Her shoulders rotate well past perpendicular to the net on the unit turn, then uncoil in sync with her trunk so that her chest faces forward at contact, clearly showing the sequencing of torso rotation into the swing.
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3.1s |
FH Running · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the center of the court, filmed from the front. Her hips stay relatively closed as she drives forward, with a pronounced knee bend on the outside leg that loads and then pushes her through the shot.
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2.4s |
FH Running · Front #3
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the center of the court, filmed from the front. Her follow-through finishes high across her body while her non-hitting hand extends backward for balance before she quickly resets into a ready position.
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2.8s |
FH Running · Front #4
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the front court position, filmed from a front angle. Her hips stay relatively closed as she chases wide, with a pronounced knee bend and strong push off the outside leg to drive through the shot while on the move.
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2.8s |
FH Running · Front #5
Elena Dementieva's forehand on the run from a central baseline position, filmed from the front. Her semi-western grip is evident with a relaxed hand on the handle, and you can clearly see the pronounced wrist lag that unwinds into a sharp forearm and wrist pronation through contact.
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2.9s |
FH Short · Front
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center, filmed from the front. Her follow-through finishes high across her body with her weight driving into the court, and she quickly resets her non-hitting hand in front of her torso to return to a ready position.
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3.3s |
FH Wide · Front · Open
Elena Dementieva's wide forehand from the center in an open stance, filmed from the front. Her contact point is well in front of her body with the racket face slightly closed, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward through the ball for heavy topspin.
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2.5s |
FH · Arm-action · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her contact point is well in front of her body with the racket face slightly closed, and the racket head accelerates upward on a steep low-to-high path through contact.
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2.7s |
FH Center · Arm-action · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her shoulders rotate well past perpendicular to the net on the unit turn, with a pronounced trunk coil that uncoils sequentially from hips to shoulders as the racquet accelerates through contact.
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2.7s |
FH Moves Back · Arm-action · Rear
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her footwork features a quick split step into a retreating adjustment step as she moves back, setting up in a semi-open stance before rotating into the shot.
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2.6s |
FH Running · Arm-action · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the center of the court, filmed from a rear angle. The contact point is struck slightly in front of her body with the racket face moderately closed, and the racket head accelerates upward on a steep low-to-high path for heavy topspin.
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2.6s |
FH Running · Arm-action · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand on the run from a neutral baseline position, filmed from a rear angle. Her shoulders load with a pronounced upper-body turn relative to the hips, then uncoil rapidly so the trunk rotation leads the arm swing into contact.
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2.7s |
FH Wide · Arm-action · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from a wide position, filmed from a rear angle. Her follow-through finishes high across her body as she recovers with quick adjustment steps back toward the center, bringing both hands toward a ready position.
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2.3s |
FH Wide · Arm-action · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's wide forehand from the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her quick adjustment steps out to the ball lead into an open stance, with a pronounced split-step before she pushes off laterally and a clear crossover recovery step back toward the center.
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2.4s |
FH Center · Rear · Neutral #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court in neutral stance, filmed from a rear angle. Her shoulders rotate well past perpendicular to the net on the unit turn, with a pronounced trunk coil that uncoils sequentially from hips to torso to arm through contact.
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2.5s |
FH Center · Rear · Neutral #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court in a neutral stance, filmed from a rear angle. Her hips stay relatively closed during the unit turn before rotating through contact as her legs drive up from a deep knee bend to push her weight into the court.
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3s |
FH Center · Rear · Open #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court in an open stance, filmed from a rear angle. Her semi-western grip is evident in the way the racket face is closed at the top of the backswing, and there is a pronounced wrist lag that unwinds into a strong pronation through contact.
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3.8s |
FH Center · Rear · Open #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court in an open stance, filmed from a rear angle. Her semi-western grip is evident in the way the racquet face closes on the backswing, with a pronounced wrist lag that unwinds into a strong pronation through contact.
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2.6s |
FH Center · Rear · Open #3
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline in an open stance, filmed from a rear angle. Her contact point is slightly in front of her body with the racket face moderately closed, and the upward windshield-wiper swing path creates high racket head speed through and up over the ball.
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2.4s |
FH Inside In · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her semi-western grip is evident in the closed racket face on the takeback, with noticeable wrist lag maintained until just before contact.
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2.5s |
FH Inside In · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand Inside-In from the center of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her hips stay closed through the loading phase with a deep knee bend, then drive forward aggressively as her legs push up into the shot.
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2s |
FH Inside Out · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her quick split step into an open stance and aggressive lateral push off the outside leg are clearly visible before she recovers back toward the middle.
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3.3s |
FH Inside Out · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her semi-western grip is clear from the strong racket face tilt, and the rear view makes the delayed wrist lag before a sharp pronation through contact easy to see.
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3.8s |
FH Inside Out · Rear #3
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the middle of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her shoulders load with a deep turn relative to her hips, creating a pronounced trunk coil that uncoils sequentially from the pelvis through the torso into the hitting arm.
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2.7s |
FH Inside Out · Rear #4
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her semi-western grip is evident in the closed racket face on the backswing, with noticeable wrist lag maintained until just before contact.
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2.5s |
FH Moves Back · Arm-action · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from a moving-back baseline position, filmed from a rear angle. Her semi-western grip is clear from the racquet face angle, with noticeable wrist lag on the takeback that unwinds into a firm, stable wrist at contact.
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2.8s |
FH Moves Back · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand while moving back from a neutral baseline position, filmed from a rear angle. From this view you can see a deep shoulder turn with her trunk strongly coiled against the hips, then uncoiling in sequence as the shoulders lead the forward swing.
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2.6s |
FH Moves Back · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand while moving back from a central baseline position, filmed from a rear angle. Her follow-through finishes high across her body with her weight still slightly on the back foot, and she quickly resets her non-hitting hand to the racquet throat as she recovers toward a neutral ready position.
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2.6s |
FH Moves Back · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand while moving back from the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her follow-through wraps high over her shoulder as she pushes off the back foot to recover, with the non-hitting arm extending outward before she quickly resets into a neutral ready position.
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2.9s |
FH Moves Back · Rear #3
Elena Dementieva's forehand while moving back from the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her follow-through finishes high over her shoulder as she transfers weight onto her back foot, then she quickly resets her stance with both hands returning to a ready position in front of her body.
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2.6s |
FH Moves Back · Rear #4
Elena Dementieva's forehand while moving back from the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. At contact her racket face is slightly closed with the ball struck around waist height, and the swing path accelerates steeply upward through the hitting zone, indicating strong racket head speed.
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2.8s |
FH Moves Back · Rear #5
Elena Dementieva's forehand while moving back from a neutral baseline position, filmed from a rear angle. Her contact point is taken slightly in front of her body with the racket face moderately closed, and the upward windshield-wiper swing path is clear as the racket accelerates through contact.
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2.7s |
FH Moves Back · Rear #6
Elena Dementieva's forehand while moving back from a neutral baseline position, filmed from a rear angle. Her semi-western grip is evident with a pronounced wrist lag on the takeback that unwinds into a strong pronation through contact.
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6.3s |
FH Moves Back · Rear #7
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center baseline while moving back, filmed from a rear angle. At contact her racket face is slightly closed with the ball struck around waist height, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward along a low-to-high swing path.
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2.2s |
FH Running · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her hips stay relatively closed as she sprints wide, with a deep outside knee bend and strong push-off from the outside leg to drive back into the court after contact.
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3s |
FH Running · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the center baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her semi-western grip is evident with the racquet hand positioned well under the handle, and you can see pronounced wrist lag on the forward swing that releases into a firm, stable wrist at contact.
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2.8s |
FH Running · Rear #3
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her follow-through finishes high across her body as she transfers weight onto her front leg, with her non-hitting arm extending back before she quickly recovers toward a neutral ready position.
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2.9s |
FH Short · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court, filmed from a rear angle. Her early split step leads into a wide semi-open stance, with quick adjustment steps taken to load on the outside leg before driving into the ball.
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2.9s |
FH Short · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her racket meets the ball slightly in front of her body with a closed racket face and a low-to-high swing path that accelerates the racket head sharply through contact.
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3.1s |
FH Short · Rear #3
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her semi-western grip is evident in the closed racket face on the takeback, with a noticeable wrist lag that unwinds into a firm, stable wrist at contact.
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4.1s |
FH Short · Rear #4
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center court position, filmed from a rear angle. At contact her racket face is slightly closed with the ball struck around waist height, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward along a low-to-high swing path.
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3.9s |
FH Short · Rear #5
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her hips load in a coiled position with noticeable knee bend before uncoiling as her legs drive up and into the court during the forward swing.
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4.5s |
FH Short · Rear #6
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her shoulders and trunk coil deeply away from the net during the unit turn, then uncoil in a clearly sequenced rotation that starts from the hips and continues through the upper torso into contact.
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2.4s |
FH Short · Rear #7
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the middle of the court, filmed from a rear angle. Her racket meets the ball slightly in front of her body with a closed racket face and a steep low-to-high swing path that accelerates the racket head through contact.
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2.3s |
FH Wide · Rear · Open #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her open stance is clear as she plants her outside foot wide, using a quick lateral shuffle and a strong push-off to recover back toward the middle after contact.
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2.6s |
FH Wide · Rear · Open #2
Elena Dementieva's wide forehand from the rear in an open stance, filmed from a rear angle. After contact her follow-through wraps high across her body as she pushes off the outside leg and quickly recovers her feet and racquet into a neutral ready position.
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2s |
FH Wide · Rear · Open #3
Elena Dementieva's wide forehand from the center baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her open stance is clear as she plants her outside foot, rotates her hips into the shot, and then uses a lateral recovery step to push back toward the middle of the court.
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2.5s |
FH Wide · Rear · Open #4
Elena Dementieva's forehand from a wide position on the baseline, filmed from a rear angle. Her open stance shows strong external hip rotation with a deep right-knee bend before she drives explosively off her outside leg into the shot.
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2.5s |
FH Wide · Rear · Open #5
Elena Dementieva's forehand from a wide ball on the deuce side in an open stance, filmed from the rear. Her semi-western grip is evident in the closed racket face on the takeback, with a pronounced wrist lag that unwinds into a sharp pronation just before contact.
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2.7s |
FH Wide · Arm-action · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from a wide position, filmed from the side. Her open-stance forehand uses a strong lateral push-off and quick recovery steps that bring her back toward the center after contact.
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2.6s |
FH Wide · Arm-action · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand from a wide court position, filmed from the side. Her hips stay closed through the loading phase with a deep knee bend, then drive forward as the outside leg pushes explosively into the court.
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2.6s |
FH Center · Side · Open #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center in an open stance, filmed from the side. Her semi-western grip is evident with the racquet face closed slightly at the top of the backswing, and there is a clear wrist lag that unwinds into a firm, stable wrist at contact.
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2.7s |
FH Center · Side · Open #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline in an open stance, filmed from the side. Her follow-through wraps high across her body with her weight driving into the court, and she quickly drops the racquet and brings both hands in front to reestablish a ready position.
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2.6s |
FH Center · Side · Open #3
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline in an open stance, filmed from the side. Her shoulders rotate well past perpendicular to the net on the unit turn, then the trunk uncoils ahead of the arm swing, showing clear separation between hip and shoulder rotation.
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3.1s |
FH Center · Side · Open #4
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from the side. Her open stance is clear as she plants her outside foot, rotates her hips through contact, and uses a small recovery shuffle to reset toward the middle.
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2.8s |
FH Center · Side · Open #5
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the court in an open stance, filmed from the side. Her shoulders load with a pronounced coil against the hips before uncoiling through contact, making the sequencing of trunk rotation into the forward swing especially clear from this angle.
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2.7s |
FH Center · Side · Open #6
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline in an open stance, filmed from the side. Her hips stay closed during the loading phase with a pronounced knee bend, then rotate aggressively toward the net as her legs drive up and forward into contact.
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2.7s |
FH Inside In · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand Inside-In from the deuce side, filmed from the side. Her semi-western grip is evident with a pronounced wrist lag on the takeback that unwinds into a strong pronation through contact.
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2.9s |
Forehand · Inside-in #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand inside-in from the deuce side, filmed from the side. Her hips stay closed during the unit turn before driving forward, with a deep knee bend and strong leg push-off into the court.
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3.3s |
FH Inside In · Side #3
Elena Dementieva's forehand InsideIn from the Deuce side, filmed from the side. Her follow-through wraps high across her body as her weight drives into the court, and she quickly re-centers her stance with both hands returning to a ready position in front of her body.
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3.8s |
FH Inside In · Side #4
Elena Dementieva's forehand InsideIn from the deuce side, filmed from the side. Her feet set up in a strong open stance with a pronounced load on the outside leg before she rotates through and takes a couple of quick recovery steps back toward the center.
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2.3s |
FH Inside Out · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand InsideOut from the Deuce court, filmed from the Side. Her hips stay closed through the loading phase with a pronounced knee bend, then unwind aggressively as her legs drive up and into the court.
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3s |
FH Inside Out · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center court position, filmed from the side. Her hips load in a closed position with a deep knee bend, then uncoil as her legs drive upward and forward into the ball.
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2.8s |
FH Inside Out · Side #3
Elena Dementieva's forehand InsideOut from the Deuce side, filmed from the Side. At contact her racket face is slightly closed with the ball struck around waist height, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward along a low-to-high swing path.
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3.1s |
FH Inside Out · Side #4
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center court area, filmed from the side. Her shoulders load with a pronounced upper-body coil against the hips, then uncoil in sequence so the trunk rotation clearly leads the arm swing through contact.
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3.3s |
FH Inside Out · Side #5
Elena Dementieva's inside-out forehand from the deuce side, filmed from a side angle. Her shoulders rotate well past perpendicular to the net on the unit turn, then uncoil in sync with her hips so that the trunk finishes fully rotated toward the target at contact and into the follow-through.
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2.3s |
FH Inside Out · Side #6
Elena Dementieva's forehand InsideOut from the Deuce court, filmed from the Side. Her feet set up in a strong open stance with a pronounced load on the outside leg before she drives through and uses quick recovery steps to get back toward the center.
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3.6s |
FH Moves Back · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand while moving back from the baseline, filmed from the side. Her hips stay relatively closed as she loads on the outside leg, with a deep knee bend and noticeable upward leg drive as she transfers weight into the shot despite retreating.
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2.3s |
FH Moves Back · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand while moving back from a neutral baseline position, filmed from the side. Her semi-western forehand grip is evident in the closed racket face on the takeback, with a pronounced wrist lag that unwinds into a sharp pronation through contact.
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2.7s |
FH Moves Back · Side #3
Elena Dementieva's forehand while moving back from the baseline, filmed from the side. Her hips stay relatively closed as she loads on the outside leg, with a deep knee bend and strong upward leg drive visible as she hits off a slightly retreating stance.
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2.8s |
FH Moves Back · Side #4
Elena Dementieva's forehand while moving back from the baseline, filmed from the side. Her hips stay relatively closed as she retreats, with a deep knee bend and strong rear-leg push-off visible as she drives back into the court through contact.
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2.6s |
FH Moves Back · Side #5
Elena Dementieva's forehand while moving back from a neutral baseline position, filmed from the side. Her shoulders and trunk load with a deep coil on the unit turn, then uncoil in sequence from hips to shoulders, making the degree of upper-body rotation and timing of the release easy to distinguish.
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2.8s |
FH Moves Back · Side #6
Elena Dementieva's forehand while moving back from the baseline, filmed from the side. Her footwork features quick retreating adjustment steps into an open stance, then a strong pivot and weight transfer forward as she recovers toward the court.
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2.8s |
FH Moves Back · Side #7
Elena Dementieva's forehand while moving back from a neutral baseline position, filmed from the side. Her footwork features quick retreating adjustment steps into an open stance before contact, followed by a small hop to recover back toward the baseline.
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2.7s |
FH Running · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the deuce side, filmed from the side. Her shoulders rotate well past perpendicular to the net on the unit turn, then her trunk uncoils ahead of the arm swing so the torso leads the kinetic chain into contact.
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3s |
FH Running · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the deuce side, filmed from the side. Her shoulders and trunk load with a pronounced coil as she sprints wide, then uncoil in sequence from hips to shoulders, making the degree of upper-body rotation and timing of the release easy to distinguish.
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2.9s |
FH Running · Side #3
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the side. Her hips stay low with a deep knee bend as she drives off the outside leg, then rotate through as her back leg kicks behind her to help her recover toward the baseline.
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2.7s |
FH Running · Side #4
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the deuce side, filmed from the side. Her semi-western grip is evident with the racket face closed at the top of the backswing, and there is a pronounced wrist lag that unwinds rapidly just before contact.
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2.6s |
FH Running · Side #5
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the ad side, filmed from the side. Her shoulders turn well past perpendicular to the baseline before contact, then her trunk uncoils aggressively forward with a visibly delayed release of the hitting arm to complete the kinetic chain.
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3s |
FH Running · Side #6
Elena Dementieva's running forehand from the deuce side, filmed from the side. Her contact point is slightly in front of her body with the racket face moderately closed, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward along a low-to-high swing path.
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2.5s |
FH Short · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from the side. Her semi-western grip is evident with a pronounced wrist lag on the takeback that unwinds into a strong pronation through contact.
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2.8s |
FH Short · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from the side. Her quick split-step leads into an open-stance setup with a strong lateral push off her outside leg before she rotates through the shot and takes a couple of recovery steps back toward neutral position.
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2.6s |
FH Short · Side #3
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the middle of the baseline, filmed from the side. Her hips stay closed during the unit turn and then rotate explosively through contact as her legs drive up from a deep knee bend.
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3.1s |
FH Short · Side #4
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the side, filmed from a side angle. Her hips stay closed through the loading phase with a deep knee bend, then rotate aggressively into the shot as her legs drive upward and forward.
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4.9s |
FH Short · Side #5
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from the side. Her semi-western grip is clear, with a pronounced wrist lag on the forward swing that snaps through just after contact.
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2.6s |
FH Short · Side #6
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from the side. After contact her follow-through wraps high across her body while her weight continues moving into the court, and she quickly resets both hands on the racquet in a neutral ready position.
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2.5s |
FH Short · Side #7
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the center of the baseline, filmed from the side. Her follow-through finishes high across her body with her weight driving into the court, and she quickly brings both hands back to the racket in a compact ready position for recovery.
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4s |
FH Short · Side #8
Elena Dementieva's forehand from the Deuce court, filmed from the Side. Her shoulders load with a pronounced upper-body coil against the hips before uncoiling in sequence, making the trunk rotation and shoulder alignment at contact very easy to compare between the forward swing and follow-through.
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3.9s |
FH Wide · Side · Open #4
Elena Dementieva's wide forehand from an open stance, filmed from the side. From this angle you can see an early, deep shoulder turn with her trunk coiling against the hips, then uncoiling aggressively as the shoulders lead the forward swing before the arm accelerates.
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2.4s |
FH Wide · Side · Open #5
Elena Dementieva's wide forehand from an open stance on the side of the court, filmed from the side. Her upper body shows a pronounced shoulder turn with the non-hitting arm counterbalancing, and the trunk uncoils ahead of the arm swing, making the sequencing of torso rotation into contact easy to see from this angle.
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2.6s |
FH Wide · Side · Open #6
Elena Dementieva's wide forehand from an open stance, filmed from the side. Her follow-through wraps across her body with her weight driving into the court, and she quickly drops the racquet and resets both hands on the handle to recover toward a ready position.
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3s |
FH Wide · Side · Open #7
Elena Dementieva's forehand from a wide position in an open stance, filmed from the side. From this angle her semi-western grip is evident, with a pronounced wrist lag on the takeback that unwinds into a strong pronation through contact.
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3.1s |
FH Wide · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's forehand from a wide position, filmed from the side. Her hips stay closed through the loading phase with a deep knee bend on the outside leg before uncoiling into a strong lateral leg drive toward the ball.
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2.8s |
FH Wide · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's wide forehand from the deuce side, filmed from a side angle. Her racket contacts the ball slightly in front of her lead hip with the strings tilted slightly closed, and the swing path accelerates steeply upward, indicating heavy topspin.
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2.8s |
FH Wide · Side #3
Elena Dementieva's forehand from a wide position, filmed from the side. Her shoulders load with a deep turn relative to her hips before uncoiling, making the trunk rotation and sequential unwinding through contact very easy to distinguish from this angle.
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3.3s |
FH Wide · Side #4
Elena Dementieva's wide forehand from the deuce side, filmed from the side. At contact her racket face is slightly closed with the ball meeting the strings around waist to mid-torso height as the racket accelerates steeply upward along a low-to-high swing path.
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2.5s |
FH Wide · Side #5
Elena Dementieva's wide forehand from the side, filmed from a side angle. Her follow-through finishes high across her body as her weight drives into the court, and she quickly brings both hands back to a neutral ready position after recovering from the wide contact.
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3.3s |
FH Wide · Side #6
Elena Dementieva's forehand from a wide position, filmed from the side. Her hips stay closed through the loading phase with a deep knee bend on the outside leg before driving up and unwinding into contact.
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3s |
FH Wide · Side #7
Elena Dementieva's forehand from a wide position, filmed from the side. At contact her racket face is slightly closed with the ball meeting the strings just in front of her lead hip, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward along a low-to-high path.
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2.5s |
BH → FH Volley → BH
Elena Dementieva's forehand volley from the vertical center of the court, filmed from a front angle. Her racket face is slightly open at contact with the ball taken just in front of her body and around chest height, producing a compact, forward punch through the shot.
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8s |
BH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad side, filmed from a court-level front angle. At contact her racket face is nearly vertical with a slightly closed angle and the ball struck just above head height, emphasizing an upward swing path and pronounced racket head acceleration through the hitting zone.
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3.5s |
BH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her continental grip is firm with a slightly laid-back wrist during the toss and early racquet drop, moving into a clear pronation of the wrist and forearm through contact.
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3.3s |
BH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce court, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her shoulder line turns only moderately away from the net while the trunk coil is limited, so the uncoiling sequence into contact is driven more by a quick upper-body rotation than a deep torso load.
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3.3s |
BH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her knees dip noticeably before leg drive, and you can see her hips stay relatively closed to the court until just after upward extension.
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3.1s |
BH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Court-level-front #3
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce court, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her hips stay relatively closed through the knee bend before driving upward, with a strong push off the back leg clearly visible from this angle.
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2.2s |
BH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Court-level-front #4
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce court, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her shoulder line stays relatively closed through the toss, then her trunk uncoils aggressively upward and into the court in sync with her arm swing, making the shoulder-over-shoulder action easy to see.
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2.8s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Ad · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad side, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her continental grip is clearly visible with a relatively firm wrist that pronates through contact, showing only a subtle wrist snap rather than a loose, whipping motion.
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3.2s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Ad · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her continental grip is visible with a relatively firm wrist that pronates through contact, with only a subtle wrist snap as she drives up and across the ball.
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3s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Ad · Court-level-front #3
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from a court-level front angle. At contact her racket face is only slightly open with the ball struck around head height, and the upward swing path with visible racket head acceleration emphasizes spin over flat pace.
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3.7s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Ad · Court-level-front #4
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad side, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her hips stay relatively closed through the toss and knee bend before uncoiling upward, with a noticeable upward leg drive off the back leg into the court.
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3.2s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Ad · Court-level-front #5
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad side, filmed from a front court-level angle. Her shoulder line rotates only moderately away from the net before contact, with the trunk uncoiling late in the motion so that the upper body is still slightly closed as the racquet moves up into the ball.
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3.9s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Ad · Court-level-front #6
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her shoulders and trunk show an early, pronounced coil during the toss that unwinds in sequence from the hips through the torso into the serving arm at contact.
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2.9s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce court, filmed from a court-level front angle. She uses a rhythmic hop into a pinpoint stance before driving up to the ball, then lands on her front foot and takes a small recovery step to rebalance on the baseline.
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3.5s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce court, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her feet set in a neutral stance with a small front-foot adjustment before the toss, and she finishes with a quick recovery step that readies her to push off toward the backhand side.
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2.7s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce court, filmed from a court-level front angle. After contact she lands on her front foot with her non-hitting arm dropping quickly to her side before she recovers into a compact ready position on the baseline.
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2.7s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her shoulders and trunk show a pronounced coil during the trophy phase, with a clear uncoiling sequence that starts from the hips and torso before the serving arm accelerates up to contact.
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2.6s |
FH Return 2nd Serve · Ad · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad side, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her continental grip is clearly visible with relatively firm grip pressure, and you can see only a modest amount of wrist pronation through contact.
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3.8s |
FH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her shoulder line turns only moderately away from the net while the trunk coil is relatively compact, and you can clearly see the upper body uncoil initiating from the hips and torso before the serving arm whips up through contact.
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3.6s |
FH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her legs show a deep knee bend before the toss with a noticeable upward leg drive into the court, while her hips stay relatively closed until just before contact.
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3.3s |
BH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Court-level-rear #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand return of first serve from the Ad court, filmed from court-level rear. After contact she drives her follow-through up and across her body while her weight moves into the court, quickly bringing both hands back to a neutral ready position for the next shot.
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2.7s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Court-level-rear #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from a court-level rear angle. Her shoulder line turns only moderately away from the baseline, and you can see her trunk coil unwind early so that her torso is almost square to the court by the time her racquet reaches the contact zone.
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2.8s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Court-level-rear #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce court, filmed from a court-level rear angle. After contact she drives her weight into the court and quickly brings both hands back toward a compact ready position, preparing to move for the next ball.
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3s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Court-level-rear #3
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from a court-level rear angle. Her hips stay relatively closed through the toss and loading phase, with a pronounced knee bend and upward leg drive as she pushes off the ground into contact.
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3.2s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Court-level-rear #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from a court-level rear angle. At contact her racket face is slightly tilted forward with the ball struck just above full extension, and the upward swing path creates noticeable racket head acceleration through the hitting zone.
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2.7s |
BH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from the front. Her continental grip is firm with a slightly laid-back wrist during the toss and early swing, followed by a clear pronation of the wrist and forearm through contact.
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3.4s |
BH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from the front. Her footwork includes a measured front-foot pivot into a mostly closed stance, with a small hop into the court as she lands on her front leg to start her recovery.
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3.3s |
BH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from the front. Her split-step into a slightly closed stance is followed by a pronounced front-leg drive into the court, with a quick recovery step landing just inside the baseline.
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3s |
BH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from the front. After contact she drives her weight into the court and quickly brings both hands back toward a compact ready position to recover for the next shot.
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2.3s |
BH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Front #3
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from the front. From this angle you can clearly see her continental grip stay firm while her wrist pronates aggressively through contact to direct the serve.
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2.8s |
BH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Front #4
Elena Dementieva's first serve return from the deuce court, filmed from the front. Her split-step is timed just before the opponent’s contact, leading into a quick pivot and semi-open stance that lets her push off her outside leg into the backhand return.
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2.8s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Ad · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from the front. Her follow-through finishes slightly across her body with her weight moving into the court, and her non-hitting hand drops quickly back toward a ready position after contact.
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3.1s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Ad · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad side, filmed from the front. Her continental grip is clearly visible with a relatively firm wrist that pronates through contact, showing only a small amount of wrist snap at the end of the motion.
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3.1s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from the front. Her split step is small and early, feeding into a neutral stance with a pronounced front-foot pivot as she drives up into the serve.
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3.3s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from the front. Her knees dip noticeably before contact and her hips drive up into the court, with the back leg kicking through to show strong upward leg drive.
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3.2s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Front #3
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from the front. Her racket contacts the ball slightly above head level with a closed face and an upward brushing motion that produces visible topspin kick.
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2.9s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Front #4
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from a front angle. Her shoulders and trunk rotate together as a unit during the toss and initial lift, then uncoil in sequence toward contact with a noticeable lead from the front shoulder.
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2.8s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the ad court, filmed from the front. Her hips stay relatively closed through the knee bend before driving upward, with a strong push off the back leg clearly visible from this angle.
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3.1s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the ad court, filmed from the front. Her contact point is well above head height with a slightly pronated racket face, and you can see the racket head accelerating steeply up and across the ball just after impact.
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3s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Front #3
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from the front. Her shoulders and trunk coil strongly away from the target before uncoiling in a pronounced rotational sequence that drives the hitting shoulder up and into contact.
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2.6s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from the front. Her continental grip is firm with a slightly extended index finger, and you can clearly see the forearm and wrist pronation driving the racket face through the ball just after contact.
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3.4s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from the front. After contact she lets her hitting arm finish across her body while her back leg swings through into the court, bringing her quickly into a balanced ready position for the next shot.
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2.9s |
FH Return 2nd Serve · Ad · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from the front. After contact she drives her weight into the court with her tossing arm tucking quickly to her side, then lands balanced and brings both hands back to a compact ready position.
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3.5s |
FH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from the front. Her continental grip is clearly visible on the serve, with a loose wrist that pronates through contact to add spin and control.
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2.8s |
FH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from the front. Her racket contacts the ball slightly above head height with a clearly closed racket face and an upward brushing motion that emphasizes spin over pace.
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3.2s |
FH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Front #3
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from the front. Her racket face is slightly closed at contact with the ball struck just above head height, and the upward swing path creates visible racket head acceleration through the hit.
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3.2s |
BH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad side, filmed from a rear angle. At contact her racket face is only slightly closed with the ball struck just above head height, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward along the right side of her body to create a pronounced upward swing path.
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3s |
BH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from a rear angle. Her shoulders and trunk rotate as a single unit during the toss and loading phase, with a pronounced upper-body coil that unwinds rapidly up the kinetic chain into the hitting arm.
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2.8s |
BH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Rear #3
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from a rear angle. Her hips stay relatively closed through the toss and loading phase, with a pronounced knee bend and upward leg drive that uncoils her lower body into the court.
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3.5s |
BH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from the rear. At contact her racket face is slightly tilted forward with the ball struck just above full extension, and the racket head accelerates steeply up the back of the ball, emphasizing a strong upward swing path.
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3.1s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Ad · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from the rear. Her hips stay relatively closed through the toss and loading phase, with a pronounced knee bend and upward leg drive that straightens rapidly into the court as she contacts the ball.
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3.1s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Ad · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from a rear angle. After contact she lets her hitting arm finish across her body while her back leg swings forward into the court, helping her recover quickly toward a neutral ready position on the baseline.
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4.5s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Ad · Rear #3
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from a rear angle. At contact her racket face is only slightly open with the ball struck around head height, and you can see a pronounced upward swing path that accelerates the racket head to impart spin.
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3.3s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from a rear angle. At contact her racket face is only slightly closed with the ball struck around head height, and the upward swing path creates noticeable racket head speed and topspin.
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2.8s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from the rear. Her hips stay relatively closed through the toss and knee bend, then uncoil in sync with an aggressive leg drive upward into the court.
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2.9s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Rear #3
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from a rear angle. After contact she lets her hitting arm and racquet finish across her body while her back leg swings forward into the court, bringing her quickly back into a compact ready position on the baseline.
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3.5s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Rear #4
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from a rear angle. Her continental grip is clearly visible with a relatively firm wrist that pronates through contact, producing a noticeable but controlled wrist snap at the end of the motion.
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2.7s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from a rear angle. Her hips load with a pronounced knee bend before driving upward, with the back leg pushing off strongly to initiate upward and forward motion into the court.
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3.2s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from a rear angle. Her footwork features a small adjustment step into a pinpoint stance before driving upward, with a pronounced front-foot landing that leads directly into her split-step recovery.
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3.2s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Rear #3
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from a rear angle. Her footwork includes a small adjustment hop into a pinpoint stance before the toss, with a pronounced push off her back leg driving her up into the court.
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3.4s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Rear #4
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from a rear angle. After contact she lands on her front foot with her torso rotating into the court, and her non-hitting arm drops quickly to her side before she settles into a compact ready position for the next shot.
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3.1s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Rear #5
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from a rear angle. Her continental grip is firm with a slightly laid-back wrist during the toss and early swing, moving into clear pronation of the wrist and forearm through contact.
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3.3s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from a rear angle. At contact her racket face is slightly tilted forward with the ball struck just above full extension, and the upward swing path creates noticeable racket head speed through the hitting zone.
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3.1s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from a rear angle. Her continental grip is firm with a slightly extended wrist, and you can clearly see pronounced wrist pronation through contact from this viewpoint.
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2.6s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Rear #3
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce court, filmed from a rear angle. Her footwork includes a rhythmic rocking motion into a pinpoint stance, with a small adjustment step to align her back foot before driving up into the serve.
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3s |
FH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from a rear angle. Her footwork includes a rhythmic rocking motion into the toss and a controlled pivot off the back foot into a neutral stance as she drives up to the ball.
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3.5s |
FH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce court, filmed from a rear angle. Her shoulders and trunk show a pronounced coiling during the trophy phase, with a distinct uncoiling sequence that starts from the hips and trunk before the arm accelerates up to contact.
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3s |
FH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Rear #3
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce court, filmed from a rear angle. Her follow-through carries her weight into the court and she quickly brings both hands back to a compact ready position to prepare for the next shot.
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2.7s |
FH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Rear #4
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from a rear angle. Her footwork includes a rhythmic rocking motion into the toss and a pronounced front-foot pivot that sets up a moderately closed stance at contact before a small recovery step toward the baseline.
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3.1s |
FH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Rear #5
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from a rear angle. Her continental grip is easy to see here, with a relatively firm grip pressure and a pronounced wrist pronation through contact.
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2.8s |
BH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve return from the Ad court, filmed from the side. Her shoulders load with a pronounced upper-body turn before contact, then her trunk uncoils ahead of the arms, making the sequencing of torso rotation into the two-handed backhand particularly clear from this angle.
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3s |
BH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from the side. Her hips stay relatively closed through the loading phase with a deep knee bend, then drive upward as the legs extend to propel her into the court.
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2.5s |
BH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Side #3
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from the side. Her feet drive up from a solid platform stance with a pronounced knee bend, and she lands slightly inside the baseline to start her recovery.
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2.8s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Ad · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad side, filmed from a side angle. Her racket contacts the ball slightly above head height with a closed face and a pronounced upward brushing motion that creates visible spin through a steep, accelerated swing path.
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3.1s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Ad · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve return backhand from the Ad side, filmed from the side. Her follow-through carries her racquet up and across her body as she transfers weight into the court and quickly resets her non-hitting hand toward the racquet throat to prepare for the next shot.
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2.9s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Ad · Side #3
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad side, filmed from a side angle. Her footwork includes a rhythmic rocking motion into the toss and a controlled landing on the front foot that sets up a stable, slightly closed stance through contact.
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3.2s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Ad · Side #4
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad side, filmed from the side. Her feet settle into a neutral stance with a pronounced knee bend before she drives up, and after contact she lands inside the court with a small recovery step to regain her baseline position.
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3.1s |
BH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from the side. Her continental grip is paired with a clearly visible wrist pronation through contact, with the racket face turning inward as her forearm rotates.
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3.3s |
BH Return Slice 1st Serve · Ad · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand slice return of first serve from the Ad court, filmed from the side. Her follow-through finishes with the racquet hand extending forward while her weight transfers into the court and she quickly brings both hands back toward a ready position.
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2.8s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from the side. After contact she lands on her front foot with her tossing arm dropping quickly to her side before she regroups into a compact ready position.
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3s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from the side. Her shoulders and trunk coil significantly away from the net during the toss, then uncoil in a clearly sequenced motion that brings the hitting shoulder through before the hips square to the court.
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2.9s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Ad · Side #3
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the Ad court, filmed from the side. Her racket face is slightly closed at contact with the ball struck just above head height, and the racket head accelerates steeply upward along the right side of her body.
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2.7s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce court, filmed from a side angle. Her hips load by turning away from the court while her knees bend deeply, and you can see an aggressive upward leg drive that uncoils her hips into contact.
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2.8s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce court, filmed from the side. Her hips stay closed through the knee bend and loading phase, then drive up with strong leg extension to initiate a late, explosive hip rotation into the court.
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3.1s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Side #3
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce side, filmed from a side angle. Her shoulder line rotates significantly away from the court during the toss, with a pronounced trunk coil that uncoils sequentially from hips to shoulders into contact.
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3s |
FH Return 1st Serve · Deuce · Side #4
Elena Dementieva's first serve from the deuce court, filmed from a side angle. Her footwork includes a small pre-serve adjustment step into a platform stance, with a pronounced knee bend and upward drive off both legs visible from the side.
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2.7s |
FH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from a side angle. Her hips load with a noticeable knee bend before driving upward, with the back leg pushing off the ground to initiate hip rotation into the court.
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3.3s |
FH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce court, filmed from the side. At contact her racket face is only slightly closed with the ball struck around head height, and you can see the upward swing path creating clear racket head acceleration through the hit.
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3.1s |
FH Return 2nd Serve · Deuce · Side #3
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from a side angle. Her follow-through carries her tossing arm down and into her body as her weight transfers into the court, bringing her quickly back toward a compact ready position for the next shot.
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3.7s |
Second Serve · Ad · Arm-action · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her tossing arm stays extended upward before folding into her body as her weight transfers forward into the court, helping her recover quickly toward a neutral ready position.
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3.3s |
Second Serve · Ad · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her feet set in a staggered stance with a pronounced knee bend before she drives up, and she lands slightly inside the baseline with a small recovery step to reset her balance.
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3.5s |
Second Serve · Ad · Leg-action · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad side, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her follow-through finishes with her weight transferring into the court and her back leg swinging forward, helping her quickly recover toward a balanced ready position.
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3.3s |
Second Serve · Deuce · Arm-action · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from court-level front. Her hips stay relatively closed through the toss and initial knee bend, with a noticeable upward drive from the legs as she extends into the serve.
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3.1s |
Second Serve · Deuce · Arm-action · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce court, filmed from court_level front. After contact her serving arm extends fully toward the target while her weight lands on the front foot, and she quickly brings both hands back to the ready position for the next shot.
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3.1s |
Second Serve · Deuce · Arm-action · Court-level-front #3
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from court level front. Her footwork includes a small, controlled front-foot pivot into the court with a stable, slightly closed stance that she maintains through the ball toss and contact.
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3.4s |
Second Serve · Deuce · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her continental grip is evident with relatively firm grip pressure, and you can see limited wrist pronation through contact, producing a more conservative spin-oriented serve.
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3.2s |
Second Serve · Deuce · Leg-action · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her deep knee bend and strong upward leg drive into the court are clearly visible, along with her hips uncoiling toward the target as she extends off the ground.
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3.1s |
Second Serve · Deuce · Leg-action · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from court level in front of the baseline. From this angle you can see her shoulders stay relatively closed as her trunk coils during the toss, then uncoil in sync with her upward leg drive to transfer energy into the serve.
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3.1s |
Second Serve · Ad · Court-level-rear #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from a court-level rear angle. Her shoulders rotate well beyond 90 degrees relative to the baseline on the toss, then her trunk uncoils upward and forward in sequence with her hitting shoulder driving through the contact.
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3.7s |
Second Serve · Deuce · Court-level-rear #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from a court-level rear angle. From this view you can clearly see her shoulders rotate well past perpendicular to the baseline during the trophy phase, then uncoil in sequence with her trunk as she drives up into contact.
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3.6s |
Second Serve · Ad · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from the front. Her shoulders and trunk coil noticeably to her right before contact, then uncoil in sequence with a pronounced left-shoulder rotation toward the net as the racquet accelerates up the back of the ball.
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3.2s |
Second Serve · Ad · Toss · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from the front. The racket face is slightly closed at a contact point just above head height, with a distinctly upward swing path creating visible racket head acceleration through the ball.
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3.2s |
Second Serve · Deuce · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from the front. Her contact point sits just above head height with a slightly closed racket face, and the upward swing path creates noticeable racket head acceleration through the ball.
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3.4s |
Second Serve · Deuce · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from the front. The racket face is slightly closed at contact with the ball struck just above head height, and the upward swing path creates visible topspin and kick.
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3.4s |
Second Serve · Deuce · Toss · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce court, filmed from the front. Her follow-through leaves her weight moving slightly into the court with her left arm dropping quickly back toward her torso before she settles into a compact ready position.
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3.3s |
Second Serve · Deuce · Toss · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from the front. Her footwork includes a measured ball-toss rhythm with a small front-foot adjustment into a platform stance, and you can see her weight shift forward onto her left leg just before she drives up to contact.
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3.1s |
Second Serve · Ad · Arm-action · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from a rear angle. Her tossing arm stays up as the racket drops into a deep backscratch position, creating a steep upward swing path with a slightly closed racket face at contact.
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3.4s |
Second Serve · Ad · Arm-action · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from a rear angle. Her footwork includes a small adjustment step into a platform stance before the toss, with a measured knee bend and minimal rear-foot lift as she drives up into the serve.
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3s |
Second Serve · Ad · Arm-action · Rear #3
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from a rear angle. From this view you can clearly see her shoulders stay relatively closed through the toss while the trunk coils, then uncoils late with a pronounced upward rotation as the hitting arm accelerates to contact.
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3.2s |
Second Serve · Ad · Leg-action · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from a rear angle. Her hips stay relatively closed through the toss and loading phase while a deep knee bend and strong upward leg drive into the court are clearly visible from behind.
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3.7s |
Second Serve · Ad · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from a rear angle. After contact her follow-through finishes across her body while her back leg steps through into the court, bringing her quickly back into a neutral ready position.
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3.9s |
Second Serve · Deuce · Arm-action · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from a rear angle. Her footwork includes a small, rhythmic front-foot rock into a pinpoint stance before she drives up, with a quick right-foot recovery step ready to move into the court after contact.
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3.3s |
Second Serve · Deuce · Arm-action · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from a rear angle. From this view you can clearly see her shoulders stay relatively closed during the ball toss before the trunk uncoils upward and forward in sequence with the arm swing.
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3.3s |
Second Serve · Deuce · Leg-action · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from a rear angle. Her contact point is slightly above head height with the racket face tilted marginally forward, and the rear view makes the upward swing path and acceleration of the racket head through the ball clearly visible.
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2.9s |
Second Serve · Deuce · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from a rear angle. From this view you can see her relatively tight continental grip and a pronounced wrist pronation through contact that slightly trails her forearm before uncoiling upward.
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3.3s |
Second Serve · Ad · Arm-action · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad side, filmed from the side. Her continental grip is paired with a clearly visible wrist pronation through contact, with the racket face closing slightly as her forearm and wrist roll toward the target.
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3s |
Second Serve · Ad · Arm-action · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from the side. Her stance remains relatively narrow with a pronounced knee bend, and from this angle you can clearly see her front foot pivot and weight transfer timing just before she drives up into the ball.
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3.3s |
Second Serve · Ad · Arm-action · Side #3
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from the side. Her stance is relatively narrow with a pronounced knee bend, and you can clearly see her weight transfer from the back foot to the front foot as she drives up into the ball.
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3.2s |
Second Serve · Ad · Leg-action · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from the side. Her shoulder line turns noticeably away from the court during the toss, with a pronounced trunk coil that then uncoils in sequence from hips to shoulders into contact.
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3.5s |
Second Serve · Ad · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad side, filmed from the side. Her knees dip deeply before upward leg drive, with her hips staying closed to the court for most of the loading phase before uncoiling into contact.
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3.1s |
Second Serve · Ad · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad side, filmed from the side. Her continental grip is evident in the way the racket face stays slightly open during the toss, with a pronounced wrist pronation driving the racket up and across the ball at contact.
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3.3s |
Second Serve · Ad · Side #3
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad side, filmed from the side. Her deep knee bend and forward-driving rear leg are clearly visible as her hips uncoil upward into the serve.
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2.9s |
Second Serve · Ad · Toss · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the Ad court, filmed from the side. Her tossing arm stays extended upward well into the racquet drop, and after contact her weight moves into the court as she finishes in a balanced, ready position for the next shot.
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3.6s |
Second Serve · Deuce · Side #1
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from the side. After contact she lands on her front foot with her back leg swinging through behind her, then quickly drops into a compact ready position with both hands returning to the racquet.
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3.3s |
Second Serve · Deuce · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce court, filmed from the side. Her footwork includes a small rhythmic rocker step into a pinpoint stance, with a clear knee bend and upward drive off the front leg before landing slightly inside the baseline.
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3.1s |
Second Serve · Deuce · Side #3
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from the side. Her deep knee bend and strong leg drive into the court are clearly visible as her hips stay relatively closed before uncoiling up into the hit.
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2.8s |
Second Serve · Deuce · Toss · Side #2
Elena Dementieva's second serve from the deuce side, filmed from the side. Her shoulder line turns noticeably away from the court during the trophy position, with a distinct trunk coil that then uncoils sequentially from hips to shoulders as she drives up to contact.
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2.8s |
BH Slice Center · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand slice from the center of the court, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her continental grip is clearly visible with a relatively firm wrist, allowing only a slight laid-back position of the hand as the racquet tracks under the ball.
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2.9s |
BH Slice Center · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand slice from the center of the court, filmed from a front court-level angle. After contact she extends the racquet out in front with the hitting arm slightly decelerating while her weight continues moving toward the baseline recovery position and her non-hitting hand starts to come back toward a ready position.
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3.1s |
BH Slice Running · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's running backhand slice from the middle of the court, filmed from a court-level front angle. Her hips stay relatively closed to the net while her knees flex deeply on the outside leg to support a low, skimming slice as she moves through the shot.
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3.3s |
BH Slice Running · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's running backhand slice from the center of the court, filmed from a front court-level angle. Her shoulders stay noticeably closed as she stretches wide, with the trunk uncoiling late through contact so that the upper body continues rotating forward even after the ball has left the strings.
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2.8s |
BH Slice Wide · Court-level-front #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand slice from a wide position, filmed from a court-level front angle. The racket face is noticeably open at contact with the ball struck around waist height, and the racket travels on a distinct downward cutting path through impact.
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3.1s |
BH Slice Wide · Court-level-front #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand slice from a wide position, filmed from a court-level front angle. From this view you can see her continental grip stay firm with minimal grip change and a stable, slightly laid-back wrist that stays quiet through contact.
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3.1s |
FH Slice · Court-level-front
Elena Dementieva's forehand slice from the center of the baseline, filmed from a court_level front angle. Her continental grip is clearly visible with a firm, slightly open racquet face, and her wrist stays relatively firm through contact with minimal wrist snap.
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2.9s |
BH Slice Running · Court-level-rear
Elena Dementieva's running backhand slice from a neutral position, filmed from a court-level rear angle. The racket face stays slightly open at contact with the ball struck around waist height, and the racket head travels on a distinctly downward, cutting path through impact.
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3s |
BH Slice Wide · Court-level-rear
Elena Dementieva's backhand slice from a wide position, filmed from a court_level rear angle. The racket face is noticeably open at contact with the ball struck around hip height, and the downward, slightly across-the-body swing path creates a clear skidding slice effect.
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3s |
FH Slice · Court-level-rear
Elena Dementieva's forehand slice from the center of the baseline, filmed from a court-level rear angle. Her follow-through finishes with the racket face slightly open while her weight transfers onto the front foot and her non-hitting hand comes back toward a ready position.
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2.5s |
BH Slice Short · Front #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand slice from the center of the baseline, filmed from the front. Her knees stay flexed through contact with a noticeable hip hinge, and her weight transfers from her back leg to her front leg in a controlled forward drive.
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3.2s |
BH Slice Short · Front #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand slice from the center, filmed from the front. Her shoulders stay relatively closed with a pronounced upper-body tilt, and you can clearly see the trunk uncoil from right to left as the non-dominant arm helps stabilize the torso through contact.
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2.8s |
BH Slice Short · Rear
Elena Dementieva's backhand slice from the center baseline, filmed from a rear angle. She uses a small adjustment hop into a neutral stance before the swing, then takes a couple of quick recovery steps to re-center after contact.
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3.2s |
BH Slice Wide · Rear #1
Elena Dementieva's backhand slice from a wide position, filmed from a rear angle. Her split step leads into a quick lateral crossover toward the sideline, finishing with a slightly open stance as she stretches out to slice the ball.
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2.9s |
BH Slice Wide · Rear #2
Elena Dementieva's backhand slice from a wide position, filmed from a rear angle. Her footwork includes a quick adjustment step out toward the sideline followed by a semi-open stance that sets up the slice while keeping her hips oriented slightly toward the baseline for recovery.
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2.3s |
BH Slice Wide · Rear #3
Elena Dementieva's backhand slice from a wide position, filmed from a rear angle. From this view, her continental grip and slightly laid-back wrist are evident as she carves under the ball with a stable, firm wrist through contact.
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3.1s |
BH Slice Center · Side
Elena Dementieva's backhand slice from the center of the court, filmed from the side. After contact she extends the racquet forward with her non-hitting hand staying back for counterbalance, then brings both hands toward a neutral ready position as her weight finishes on the front foot.
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3.1s |
BH Slice Running · Side
Elena Dementieva's running backhand slice from the side. Her outside knee stays deeply flexed as she stretches laterally, with her hips remaining slightly closed to keep the upper body stable through the slicing motion.
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2.9s |
BH Slice Wide · Side
Elena Dementieva's backhand slice from a wide position, filmed from the side. Her follow-through finishes with the racket face slightly open and her weight moving toward the sideline before she recovers back toward a neutral ready position.
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3s |
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