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In order to get really good control on our drop shots it is good to try and put some cut on the ball. Really feel the ball on your strings and get your strings to dig into the back of the ball. When you do this what you need to think about is your racket going through the ball and not chopping down. It is quite tempting to think about to put cut on I need to chop down on the ball. If you do that the danger is the racket's going down, the ball is going into the tin.
If you get a really nice contact and get your racket going through, then you can see that if my racket is going through roughly towards to the top of the tin my racket face is open and the ball is not going to go down. If I get a really good contact I can catch the ball on the strings, the ball won't zoom up like this, it'll dig into the strings and it will stay pretty level and give me that real control I need.
OK so the ideal situation is we have got our racket up showing we can play any shot. By the time it gets to the ball we want the racket to be going through the line. So we will start it here. As you start to swing you'll break your wrist back which will drop the racket head and then the racket can come through and you'll finish up pointing to target.
So exactly the same things apply on the backhand. You'll start the racket here and as you start to swing the wrist will break, the racket will come down and go through to target.
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