More on the racket head!

Hi Shimley, it’s not so easy to feel on the two-handed backhand since it’s a more compact stroke. But it would help if you put some extra weight on the racket head.

You can use the standard lead tapes or simply wrap some wire around the tip of the racket. Then you’ll feel the weight better and finding the swing will be easier.

Yes, absolutely true. My problem is a particularly high posture and that my arm (s) are pulling my body, not the other way around. I’ll work on it. Thanks again.

Hi Misa,

The frustration comes from underestimating the difficulty of tennis. I believe tennis is the most difficult recreational sport of all as it requires a lot of skills to be at a very high level and that’s just to rally consistently from the baseline.

Here are just some of the skills required: anticipation, reaction, ball judgment (perception of ball’s speed and distance from you as well as reading the type and amount of spin), general body coordination, footwork coordination, hand eye coordination, balance and so on.

So when you come to play tennis after a longer break all of those skills have dropped to lower levels as you have not been stimulating your brain and body to keep them at a high level.

That means it will take quite some time before all those skills rise to a needed level where you can play tennis comfortably.

And that understanding will hopefully stop the frustration.

And remember, if you still get frustrated after reading this then it means you still underestimate the difficulty of tennis or overestimate your own skill level.