How to Win with ONLY a Slice: 3 Ways including Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced

[@counsela9240]

Lopez and Vinci are my favorite slicers. I also use it a lot

[@davidhlin3023]

Ken Rosewall has a great offensive backhand slice.

[@e2hbh]

Nicely explained the THREE ways of hitting slice: defensive, neutral, offensive. Have not seen other videos like this one. Would add to many rec players games of all ages. Excellent.

[@vijaynarsapur147]

Super happy to see this video. A couple of points: On the neutral slice, the idea is to play with speed and hit the shot such that it slows and skids after the bounce. This way you can make the opponent mishit the ball early. If you saw Federer's misses carefully, he pulled to the left on forehands and right on the backhands. On the offensive slice, I guess the idea with a short aggressive punchy swing is to take visual cues and time available to the opponent. It will be useful to have you talk about under what circumstances, and how these shots should be used for maximum effect.

[@jomserve]

I used to slice every shot on my backhand. When I learn to mix with topspin, my slice become more effective. It hard to win only hitting slice. Good point to classify 3 level of slice. For me, offensive slice comes with a lot of body weight transfer, especially on approach shot.

[@kiklop1984]

Nice video, I like that you dig into details and not only explaining fundamental slice technique.

[@jesoby]

Steve Johnson, Matteo Berrettini, Dan Evans, a post surgery Del Potro - all predominantly sliced backhands. Steffi Graf, 7 Wimbledon titles. Willander 1988 US Open Final.

[@FairwayJack]

good stuff ... I liked the "getting crushed or you doing the crushing" quip

[@dropshot118]

Great explanation and demonstration. I love the offensive slice. Even if my opponent get a raquet on it they often miss time it and make an error. I also have a two hand drive but slice as a change up like you

[@georgebasham2279]

Thanks for the good tips! I need to wrap my racquet further behind me, the lack of a coil is why my slice is anemic at times.

[@rodrigoolivera112]

0:15 “yeah that was kinda a stretch comparison” I laughed so hard

[@villaralph3102]

Great video. It helps me a lot in improving my slice

[@snicolai]

Super helpful video! This got me over the hump of accepting that my slice is more effective than my topspin backhand. Now I employ the slice without shame, and can control the rhythm of the point much better. Also gives me more time to set up for big forehands. Thanks!

[@mikthe2004]

Steffi Graf won 22 Slams with a backhand that was almost always heavily sliced. She only went to topspin to hit passing shots, and funnily enough her topspin backhand was very good. But yes, it gave her time to set up for her big forehand, and slices that are low force the other person to hit up - hopefully into your forehand's hitting zone!

[@mjlee5617]

strangely after watching so many vlog, I finally this that makes sense for club/recreational players

[@Sagan8]

Love the video and your ideas! No one ever taught me how to slice; I had to learn on my own. Thanks for this!

[@UOGMathRoden]

In doubles, I always chip and charge my return low crosscourt and short. I find that my opponent cannot lob off such a low ball and they have to hit up so me and my partner can volley it away. If you come across a poacher, the beauty of slice/chip is that you can wait til the last minute and lob or go down the line. I have a pretty good 2handed backhand but it seems once I commit to the drive crosscourt, I cannot change it against a poacher.

[@kaialoha]

The main attacking attribute of underspin is deceptive bounce in terms of timing and location. It is difficult to precisely judge the drag and break on lateral shots; and for directly at you shots also the depth of the bounce. This means each reply calculation has to be unique. This is totally arhythmic and consequently mentally tiring. Varying back and side cut; DEPTH, drag, bound and height while being totally in control and psychologically comfortable is a huge advantage in the sense that you can handle any incoming. Of course also having a dropshot and topspin as appropriate exponentially increases your effectiveness. Rosewall had the definitive underspin BH drive and cut. Bloke did ok with only that. Widely considered to be the best of its kind ever. Graf´s cutter was deceptively heavy and low - unattackable was all she needed. She had an excellent topper as a passing shot as well if she needed it which was seldom.

[@mercyngendo1817]

Helped me a lot thanks

[@ghofarismiroko2973]

I don't do a lot of slice. But I know slice is necessary in some positions. Thanks for sharing.

[@chengpohlim8605]

Great tips...been using the offensive and defensive slices and thought why not one is teaching this. Keep it coming!! Good stuff.!

[@donkeykong516]

Like your passion for the game

[@alvaro50002]

Yor grip are an unauthorized one. The grips to do a backhand slice are conthinental and a forehand eastern, and you use a semi-western forehand

[@drelephanttube]

lol, unauthorized grip.

[@blueststar4u]

Hi, what's you forehand grip and BH slice grip?

[@15PointsOfTennis]

I BH slice with more of a FH eastern grip

[@piratpromwan4194]

Fantastic teaching man. Love it and thank you 😁🙏

[@gabegilliland5601]

Stopping the motion shouldn't make it faster. The pace comes from acceleration and the angle of the racquet head. Forcefully stopping the racquet causes deceleration, thus making the shot weaker.

[@paragjain2572]

Lovely video on slices.

[@christopherwalker5875]

Thank you for the inspirational content!

[@jonh7012]

What kind of grip should you hold the racquet with for these slices?

[@15PointsOfTennis]

Continental.. I even go eastern FH for more spin

[@trishgooley693]

Continental

[@Bacat4321]

Thank you

[@mahpulsaefullah5542]

Terima kasih banyak...(thank you verry much)...👍🙏🙏

[@erwinjoseph1600]

Thanks 👍👍👍

[@boarini2003]

Great stuff, it's basically guerrilla warfare in tennis.

[@zf164]

Lol great analogy

[@mrpogi79]

What are your thoughts on Steffi Grafs slice? Would be awesome to see a video dissect her slice and teach others how to have a Steffi slice.

[@15PointsOfTennis]

Haven’t watched her much.. I’ll take a look. Thanks!

[@Oldking3]

Have you done or are you planning a fourhand slice lesson ?

[@15PointsOfTennis]

Haven’t planned one.. at some point tho. It’s esp good for western FHs that cant hit the low ball.

[@CahalanTennis]

@@15PointsOfTennis I see the Pros using a block forehand backspin on return of hard serves. Almost no backswing, just pop the ball via wrist snap and backspin, with short natural follow though. i.e. Stop-and-pop. Useful to defuse big servers.

[@jesoby]

You can go far with mainly slice like Evans and Berretini (and of course Graff).

[@kaialoha]

Rosewall

[@ATIL1304]

Hey Coach...We want more of that funky music.Peace - Love

[@alvaro50002]

Great match of Lopez and Federer What match was that ?

[@pasunurusaivineeth3739]

That's from Cincinnati 2015

[@apmcsilva]

This is an excellent way of focusing on tennis as a game, in which the objective is to win. Being resourceful sure helps a lot. But, in my opinion, unless you are playing with an opponent who deals badly with being in control, this is just a bad idea in the overall game....besides it will heavily tax your legs for you will be the one playing way beyond the baseline running back and forth.

[@15PointsOfTennis]

Agreed.. I like slice for only specific scenarios.

[@吃喝玩樂同學會的謝老]

很有啟發性的打法

[@paulkwan2006]

very good video. thanks.

[@Mickey_McD]

I've experimented with trying to hit your offensive slice. When I hit it right it's a really good shot that is short in the court and stays low. Unfortunately, a lot of the time I dump the offensive slice into the net, so I'm apprehensive about trying to use it on critical points.

[@15PointsOfTennis]

Agreed 100%.. I rarely hit offensive slices, mostly neutral and defensive... at least for me my muscles are too weak to be consistent with it. I’ve seen a few players here and there who hit slice almost exclusively on one side use the offensive. Attempted in this video to show the spectrum of slice.. for ex if someone’s approaching the net as I’m slicing I’ll hit something more on the offensive side of the spectrum but never really a pure offensive slice.

[@gabegilliland5601]

Try following through instead of stopping. Following through with a lot of forward momentum will help generate speed on the shot.

[@TNToncourt]

Talks a lot but talks a lot of sense. Thank you.

[@drewcastro6574]

Checks over stripes

[@Jivje0is0pr0]

Great vid man! So glad I found this channel.

[@heliosdefendi]

If you want to be a very good and complete tennis player you should be able to play all hits or strokes. Of course you can have your favorite hit, but your offensive slice backhand is not well explained and you should mention that it requires a quickly stop cut vertical up and down. Besides you had to mention the chop or chopper. Then you have played more slice backhands instead of slice forehands This last hit is a little more difficult than a slice backhand. Especially when you are near the net, a chop o chopper is a good hit or stroke, too. Show this one in the next tutorial video! Please, do not confuse it with a drop shot Thanks!

[@ChristopherCooke321]

The follow through is not as important as the angle at which you hit the ball, and the racquet head speed as you hit it. Stopping the follow through doesn’t add power, it comes from the increased racquet head speed

[@tommyrooch4195]

Any slice should always be continental

[@jemand8462]

I'm sorry but to explain a shot starting at the follow through is just wrong. Actually the follow through shouldn't matter AT ALL because it shouldn't be forced but the natural movement of the racket AFTER the ball has left the racket. So it's much more important to focus on what to do BEFORE the shot, not AFTER.

[@tazz8368]

A few days ago I actually won a match just by slicing

[@davdmoi]

That will not work. If you playing with smarter more knowledge understanding the game they will make adjustment with more drop shots or heavy topspin shots that jump over the shoulder. Plus whoever doing hitting with you he is not control the of his court and playing more than 3 feet behind the baseline. He doesn’t have too much of offense to put out from there.

[@Megalosmalakas1977]

you obviously did not listen properly to what he said and who the video is directed to its a development video not a video for a so called pro like you

[@MOKUMSEBLUF]

You said topspin a couple of times, its backspin! There is no topspin in a slice because you dont hit the ball upwards to the top

[@neilmehta5573]

𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘁

[@kingkudzu352]

get rekt lopez

[@opencurtin]

TOO many slices and you are becoming a pusher, I hate pushers ..lol

[@HG-Tv23]

Come quicker to the point

[@perakojot6524]

Slice can work effectively against beginners and ppl who don't have either decent top spin BH or BH slice since offensive and neutral slice you play 95% of the time as cross-court BH slice. And talking about those defensive slices that you drop on T being effective at collage level is just dreaming. Any decent player (i.e. level 5.0 or up) will just destroy it with a running volley. Judging by your videos you are about low echelon of 5.0 level and certainly below D3 so I can understand why you are overestimating the importance of slice.

[@GeneralRock114]

It’s called chicken shit tennis. Lol.