Although they’re largely overlooked, grips are the foundation of all the strokes in tennis. Where you position ... determine the best uses of each of the common grips. There are various ways ...

“Players like the thin grips because they can come over the ball much more and whip it,” says Roman Prokes, owner of RPNY Tennis in New ... “The best of the best are using them and there ...

This is the way to hold the racquet for the serve, volley, sliced backhand and smash. It is known as the chopper grip, because it is the way you would hold an axe. It allows you to swing the racket ...