Basic tennis shots:
1. Serve -
starts the point off and as you get better at tennis you can use a powerful
serve to dictate points and have any easier time at holding serve.
2. Forehand - In
most cases this is the shot that a player uses with their dominant hand and
makes up the very basics of tennis, and again in most but not all cases you use
just your dominant hand.
3. Backhand -
This is the opposite of the forehand is can be used with either one or two
hands, both with their own advantages.
4. Volley - A
very offensive shot that is much less used in tennis nowadays than in the
past. There are drop volleys which pull
the opponent close into the net, but good drop volleys take a good amount of
touch when playing at a high level.
5. Slice - This
can be applied to all of your shots and slows down the ball while also making
the ball bounce low, possibly producing a slower shot in return from your
opponent.
6. Lob - Very
important if you are playing a person who likes going to the net to hit
volleys. Just as the name suggests you
hit the ball way up above your opponents head into the back court, you can
apply topspin or slice to the lob to make it more effective depending on the
situation.
7. Overhead -
This shot should end the point in a match.
The overhead is used on lobs that do not go far enough back into the
court so you go into a service motion and smash the ball back down into your
opponents side of the court.
8. Drop Shot -
This is a tricky shot in which you take all pace off of the ball and hit it
close to the net while you are in the back part of the court. If the player can make it to the ball at the
net you usually have a good chance to hit a ball past them to win the point.
