LAWN TENNIS TIPS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22391, 11 April 1936, Page 9 (Supplement)

LAWN TENNIS TIPS

GRIPPING THE RACQUET Do you want to improve your tennis ? Of course you do. Listen to this then. Speaking generally, the best grip for most players will be found to be one that allows the arm, and racquet, when swung horizontally at the full extent of the arm with the full face

to the ball, to form an unbroken line from the player's shoulder to the racqnet head. How to Obtain This Grip.—Hold out the arm straight from the shoulder, with the hand open and the palm at right angles to the ground. Place the handle of the racquet in this hand, so that, when grasped by the thumb and lingers, it lies along the palm with the leather of the butt resting against the pad of the hand, and the handle lying between the bent second joint of the first finger, and the thumb. Held in this way the racquet will be found to form practically a prolongation of tho arm in one line from the player's shoulder, without any break in. this line at elbow or wrist. Vaults.—The chief faults to be looked for and avoided are, among boys, holding the head of the racquet almost at right angles above the wrist, and. among girls, allowing the racquet-head to drop, without control of the wrist, in a "floppy" action, as the ball is struck —A. E. Beamish in "Tho Lawn Tennis Tip Book," published by Messrs. Mills and Boon.