(Tennis) Essential Skill: Watching the Ball

I posted previously about one other essential factor that improves your tennis shots.

For this post, I'd like to highlight that keeping your head low and watching the ball on contact will significantly improve your shots too. FEDERER does this (this skill is generally more applicable for Eastern grips).

Again, knowing this in your head is not enough, you must train and practice on the court.

Keeping your head low and watching the ball on contact applies to almost all aspects of tennis, not just groundstrokes:

• Volleys

• Slice

• Serves/smash (don't need to keep your head low here)

• Serve returns

https://youtu.be/MNOt77wY1pI?si=I_sfesLP3aY3F-SN

^This 2-min clip shows Federer & Dimitrov watching the ball on contact