Roger Federer's Inside-Out Forehand / FYB Strategy Quiz #2

http://www.fuzzyyellowballs.com/roger-federers-inside-out-forehand/

Roger Federer's Inside-Out forehand is a formidable shot. It's probably the best inside-out forehand on the men's professional tour. Federer sets up this shot by alternative between slice and topspin backhands. This technique presents Federer with more opportunities to hit inside-out forehands than most other players on tour. So the question for this strategy video is simply "why?" Why does alternating between the slice and topspin backhands give Federer more chances to hit a forehand.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• roger
• federer
• forehand
• inside
• out
• strategy
• topspin

[lilhu93]

Where is the answer to this, I can't find it

[FYB2007]

Click on the link in the description

[FYB2007]

Quick note about the magnets -- they are not tennis rackets. The circle represents the player's body. The stick coming out of the circle is the tennis racket. So everything is oriented properly but I can understand the confusion.

[AltairXC]

The reason that greater variation between Roger's backhand and other Pro's backhands allows him to hit more inside-out forehands is b/c of disrupting his opponent's rhythm and due to this being able read his opponent's shot better b/c of percentage play.

Roger's goal by mixing in the slice w/ topspin is to keep giving his opponent a different ball every time. So that they have a harder time attacking his shot because it's harder to develop a rhythm.

[tommycfc]

It invokes an ancient magical formula to victory: topspin, slice, topspin, topspin, slice, topspin, slice, slice, DIE.

[MrTonyInchpractice]

look to the great graf for the answer- a good slice stays low, taking away ur opponent's option of a flatly hit reply; the opponent has to *dig* the ball out of the court which forces them to produce a shot which comes over the net higher which gives fed/graf more time to run around the b/hand to hit the (relatively) high-bouncing slower reply to the slice.

lovelovelove fyb.

any plans of detailing hingis's strategies?

[thezlatkom]

The correct answer is because slice backhands usually means getting a slice backhand back (slower ball more time to go around it) or low top spin backhand wish is also usually very slow because Feds slice bounced low and it is immposible to attack it. So by slice he gets something like matrix moment for him where he can travel faster than the opponents ball and get prepared for the forehand and change the rhythm completely of the point.

[thatmusikman]

Isn't Roddick's inside out better?

[EthanMauAsam1]

Because,

if you hit the slice most people will hit a slower slice back and that gives federer more time to turn around the ball (i think)

[slatz20]

The ball on 2:00 is O U T . ^ ^

[181erob]

It's more difficult to hit back a slice with a lot of speed on it than a regular ball. Because of this, Roger has more time to run around the shot and hit a forehand.

[arunrajesh2429]

Alternating shots with his backhand makes his opponent's return weaker and more towards serve line rather than the baseline , so he will have more time to switch sides to go inside out .....

[idontsignin]

9 times out of 10 he will hit his forehand to the open court, the guys are reading it too easy

[sultanabran1]

@tommycfc like!