Emma Raducanu Forehand Technique (What To Copy To Improve Your Tennis)

Emma is friggin gorgeous. Perfect legs.

These extreme western grips still make no sense to me, but I learned and played the game in the 1980s.

same swing and SW grip as Iga. Bented arm also

Ryan - just saw a practice video from a few months ago and it appears that, she has further improved her FH. The takeback is now a lot shorter, and keep it even more so to the side. Might want to check it out, will link it here if I find the video.

I have watched many of your videos in which you say that closing the racquetface as you start your foreward swing enables you to hit the ball with a square face and strings facing forward.

I do not understand this at all. Clearly it is the path my racquet takes from that point that determines the orientation of the strings at contact, and there are a number of paths where this will not happen.

In particular, whatever part of my mechanics that changes the orientation of the strings from downward to flat, straight up and down, and forward has to be timed perfectly in order for the orientation to be correct.

I understand how in some sense the simplest trajectory that gets the strings into this orientation is quite optimal for both hitting through the ball and generating topspin, but I don't see how to effect that trajectory.

To avoid timing problems, I have a strong urge to start off with the raquet oriented straight up and down, so the only two variables are to move it from butt-cap facing the ball to strings in correct left-right position (to hit through) and from strings below the ball to strings at the ball (to generate topspin). That is way way easier and more natural. However, it does not generate much topspin. The orientation from closed to vertically up and down, I presume, will do that.

But the videos don't seem to explain how to time this, instead claiming (falsely, it seems to me), that the correct orientation will somehow naturally come about if starting from the closed face.

MTM nothing more.

Oscar Wegner already explained and teaches how to hit like this

Gracias

What for an ugly forehand. As all modern western forehands. Bring back wooden raquets, bring back raquets with smaller sweet spot. Less spin, more touch. I want to see tennis again, like in the 1970 th.

the hold classic technic is the 1990 .... its not the nex gen technic 2022.. Alcaraz,sinner ruud etc..

Emma的手几乎不用力 很放松

Under pressure her forehand will often become a hit and not a swing with a snap…

I would argue that the loop is "blunted", she actually stops the smaller loop and just pushes off with her feet and with her upper body twist, she just "wrists" the shot. Very very difficult to time consistently especially for a recreational player. My 2 cents. (I do agree with the loop being on the hitting side of the body FOR SURE... love this in today's faster game, but...). Cheers my friend.

I saw my forehand video and I was shocked. I did not think it was that bad...

Don't copy this serena and venus got coaching vids on line copy that

I think emma has since changed this solid FH technique into more zverev like and headed south in her current match performance.. wonder which one of her coaches did the damage?

Ryan, that’s a typical atp lagging for me, racket head pointing at the back fence while buttcap pointing at the coming ball and racket face closing. Some wta players of this generation start copying atp forehand.

And this is the first instructional video that made me realize I've been split-stepping poorly. THANK YOU.

This is very clear explanation and well presented. Every detail is nicely broken down. Very useful training video for my juniors
Thank you for sharing this. 👏

She could do with a tip video like this, not star in one

The western grip forehand or semi will destroy most people's arms, shoulders....and up at net one has to radically change ones grip.....

I absolutely love this video. As a male college player I’m going to switch from the nadal takeback to this. I used to use Raducanus takeback before I copied nadal and realized I never should’ve switched. Such clean technique. Thanks Ryan!

the best tennis lesson, congrats,

Chào ⭐⭐

Calm down! .. drink less coffee.

too much talk!

I disagree, she is lagging like the atp players do. Lagging is just a relaxed wrist (high level skill) that allows much of the racquet to keep going back as the hand/arm is rotated forward. The racquet not only lays the wrist back it rebounds like a pendulum and accelerates the racquet.

How about Rublev, Djokovic and Nadal? Do they not qualify as good forehands? Sampass? LOL! He only had 14 GS and never even went to semis in French Open ever! Sampass would get killed against Rubev, Djokovic or Nadal! Zverev is total only a ATP 500 and lower level tournament player! Never won a ATP 1000 and never won a GS! Sasha Zverev is a hot heat too! LOL!

Hi coach i woul tell you that your videos are so great. Thanks you for all.

can u analize emma's butt shape? i love it. a work of art

Brilliant 👍 Thank you very much!!!

i wouldn't copy this it'll get you knocked out in either R1 or R2 .. if she has any chance going forward she needs to bulk up ang hit the gym as no required strength to match up that's evident today

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She uses a an extreme western forehead

Junk!

Welcome gentlemen of culture.

That was a pretty long 2 minutes mate.

Also, she gets low. Every time.

Thank you so much! I love these videos

If you want to improve, Raducanu can never be your model player

honestly filming myself is one thing but taking swings in front of a very large mirror is so much better. there were things i was doing i didnt know i was doing and thing I thought i was doing but wasnt.

Her grip. It looks like a semi- western? Or something more than the eastern grip. What grip is that?

awesome analysis. i disagree that she does not lag the forehand. she absolutely does, as a direct result of her good preparation.

the lag at best is a brief moment in time in the forehand, achieved by a loose wrist that throws the weight of the racket to the ball. she does this by only bending the wrist back as forward motion of the racket is initiated, not before as a lot of rec and even pro players do. but the key is she doesnt try to do this...its just an effect of using the racket correctly. lag should never be intentional or taught. its a result of proper timing and racket skill.

What??? she clearly is doing the Congruent Tennis "Lag to Drag" the racket on her Forehand...not sure what the heck you are trying to say. And maybe mention that not crossing the plane is brought to us by Christophe Delavaut....

i drill with really old balls that seems like its got meningitis. seems impossible to replicate the results that shes got on the court

I can actually see several weak points in a forehand like this. Would love to engage in a discussion about it if you are up for it. For example, you can't swing as fast if you hold the racket away from you versus starting from a tucked in position. What would you say about that?

No lag?? What are you talking about?? Filled with idiosyncrasies, copying for the sake of copying and no biomechanical advantages explained.

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