Tennis Prodigy - 6-year-old Abby Hits Backhands From Baseline 012010

Six-Year-Old Tennis Star - Tennis Prodigy - Sports Phenom

Here's Abby's backhand from the baseline.

We need to work on making position better, even on the deep balls, to keep the left arm from curling up.

The left arm bending is our first "bad habit" we are going to flush out with drop feeds and footwork drills!

Comments welcome.

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[khemistryy]

Prodigy typically refers to natural talent not forced by parental influences.

[ToughLoveTennis]

@khemistryy Good point.. Pls compare to newer videos and drop a line.. She's doing well... She only cried once today... Tomorrow if she doesn't cry we might feed her... Thanks for commenting

[tennistavet]

Very good ! Only one doubt. She hit the ball in a very flat mode (similar to baseball maybe) . Shouldn't be the case to teach a little bit of top spin

in order to get a better control of the ball ?

[ToughLoveTennis]

@tennistavet i agree... pls compare this one to the one from last week.... i would appreciate critique

[pixies901]

She is 6? she looks older? She also has a baseball type stroke on her backhand, very good though!

[ToughLoveTennis]

@pixies901 thanks! btw we call that shot "playing cricket" and it drove us nuts

[powercise]

WHoa....start from square 1. Her grip is wrong, her strokes are wrong, her footwork is wrong. Hitting ball after ball like this all wrong is horrible, you will get her muscle memory set like this and it will be impossible to correct. Take her to a real coach and start from scratch. No offense, this video is hard to watch as a tennis coach. And its not her fault, it is whatever adult did not teach her the basics.

[Bulverton]

not a prodigy just ok

[Bulverton]

it keeps going high

[coPurple11ok]

She looks decent but whoever is feeding needs to make them lower because her point of contact is way too high. Her footwork could be better and her swing looks like baseball. maybe try a smaller racket

[crasshelmet]

I don't know if you want opinions but: 1) Get her footwork going. 2) I know she is small, but she needs to familiarize herself with the point of contact (closer to the hips) which means she needs to move back alot more. Apart from that, she looks good. Best of luck and I hope she enjoys.

[djshellshock1]

@ToughLoveTennis she looks good..i would suggest she use the green dot balls to keep it more in her hitting zone, down by her waist.(i know this is tough when they are so young). Her technique is solid, good work.

[suitsyousir1980]

What kind of coach lets you hit more than 1 ball with that grip!?!?!?!?!?!?

[Taburett1]

awful backhand...

[rebelian7]

I don't know about her now, bot powercise is right. Her backhand form is incorrect, and inefficient. It's a better idea to teach her proper form before drilling her constantly while using incorrect form. As a coach once said, 'Practice makes permanent, perfect practice makes perfect.'

[mynizzpizz]

@powercise She's probably still a whole hell than you are.