Top 10 Reasons To Sack Your Tennis Coach

Do you have any reasoning behind this or is it just your one sided opinion? As some people say, open stance is used by lot of western grip people, and it is used when there isn't enough time for a neutral stance. For your information, neutral stance get much more rotation because you get rotation before the hit unlike open stance, you get rotation after the shot which has no significant effect on the traveling ball. Who are you and what makes you think you are correct?

I think many ppl here is misunderstanding. Open stance is when a line between your right and left foot is parallel to the baseline. Neutral stance is when the same line is perpendicular to the baseline. And closed stance is when your left foot is across your right foot for a righty. Open and neutral is oftenly used by pros and closed is mostly avoided!

Thank you buddy!! at last someone that really understands it and says it like it is!!

Bit late with my reply but no way should you be trying to use too much closed stance with a grip like yours - they are not a good match. Any coach that is trying to do that worries me!!

You are missing the point, of course you can use a closed stance to hit a short ball (you can also use an open stance on some of them - right foot forward, right handers), I am saying I see far too many coaches teaching the closed stance to people even when they are feeding them balls of a good length.

You can recover from a closed stance forehand by swinging your back foot around after contact and bouncing off that leg.

ok this guy is really pissing me off

i feel you are giving too much of a one-sided analysis when it comes to open-stance. open stance is used by western-gripped players 98% of the time (just to be safe) but just because its possible to use open stance with regularity doesn't necessarily mean closed-stance is wrong. yea you got nadal and gonzo, but i'm 99.9% i see federer and murray use closed-stance quite as often as any player. like you said, watch the pros.

nevertheless, i understand that each coach places different emphasizes in different areas and i respect that.

I do watch the pros and the open/semi is without doubt the preferred option!

now now calm down!!