Federer Murray Haas & more ball toss common threads

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Uploaded by on Jan 9, 2010

Watch how Federer, Murray, Hass, Hewitt, Davydenko, Safin, Tsonga all make the same move when tossing the ball. Keys to a good toss: Upper body turn during the backswing, hang on to the ball by the finger tips, follow through after releasing the ball.

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  • Obviously, Soderling and Del Potro's toss is different from these guys.

  • @didanhtennis yes not everyone turns and tosses the ball like Fed and dome of the others. There are many ways to toss the ball, as a teaching pro i find that my students have an easier time controlling the ball toss blending the toss with the shoulder turn.

  • Well, you proved a point but can you help me understand how they do that and the ball is about at least 1 to 3 feet in front of them when they make contact? Obviously, the forward motion is pushing the ball into the court a bit or otherwise how could the ball be into the court if the arm is parallel to the baseline.

    If you post a video to explain more about the next part of the toss that will help explain a lot about the toss.

    Thanks

  • @didanhtennis yes i am in the process of doing a new toss video. thanks for watching and for your feedback. christophe.

  • HALLELUJAH ! how many times have I posted comments to coaches teaching to point the hand forward to the net post that the pros actually have the arm parallel to the baseline. I knew I was right.

  • @byen8 You are very welcome, sadly enough not too many pros teach the toss the proper way. What is even more sad is that most so called experts in our industry still don't see it. Thanks for watching. Christophe.

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  • @Andi12345671 Thank you for the correction and thanks for watching! Christophe

  • haas not hass. Hass means hatred in german

  • @Veneratio10 Do you teach tennis for a living? have you coached ATP/WTA players? Have you played professional tennis? Obviously not! As I mentioned before the ball toss comes as the shoulder turns develops hence resulting a toss at a 45 degree angle what is trivial to me is your comment as you clearly no nothing about breaking down a stroke.

  • @xstf no i'm afraid you are incorrect, with all due respect and sh823543 has made a very valid point. it's entirely nonsensical to serve parallel to the baseline if you're serving from the right side as opposed to left side. i don't even need to waffle through its technical aspects to explain myself, it's trivial. 

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