The 5 Most Common Tennis Overhead Mistakes & How To Fix Them

The tennis overhead can look so easy and still is one of the most disliked shots! It for sure is one of the most under-practiced shots.
In this video, I'll show you the 5 MOST COMMON tennis overhead mistakes and how you can fix them.
Starting with the grip, a lack of unit-turn, no use of the non-dominant arm, wrong contact point and poor decision making you'll be able to correct your tennis smash mistakes.
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[@MeikeBabelTennis]

Watch this next: The COMPLETE Overhead Tutorial: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKSzmquBlLebfqs

[@victoriashaw324]

My favorite

[@la33ib]

Merci Meike... excellente vidéo

[@K4R3N]

Great lesson

[@MeikeBabelTennis]

Thank you!

[@NickNeras]

Thank you awesome stuff when you start doing right becomes one of most faves shots 👌👍💪

[@davidjefferies9214]

I love the overhead drill!

[@MeikeBabelTennis]

It's a fun one.

[@SimonServes]

Great video. How would you handle a slice lob vs a top spin lob when hitting an overhead?

[@nightowldickson]

4:00 such a good point - Federer is a great example of this

[@constable144]

Great, how how about another situation that recreational players dread; the retrieval of a lob that requires turning and running back

[@MeikeBabelTennis]

That's a great idea! I'll put that on my list to film!

[@jonathanchen1026]

Is the overhead form same as serve?

[@MeikeBabelTennis]

Very similar only that you take your racket up in a shorter movement and the trajectory of the incoming ball is different.

[@taniakane1270]

😂 I’m so excited when I hit a decent overhead I rush in (overclose) to watch what happens or excessively celebrate…especially if I don’t hit myself in the shin with my follow through!! Then, I get to watch the lob go over my head 😉

[@anacap007]

I actually find moving backwards while the non-hitting arm raised affects my balance and limits my speed. I too think about the quarterback concept but prefer to think of the racquet as the football with both hands on the racquet, similar to any other tennis stroke, and then only separate them after I have planted my back leg ready to start the swing.

[@rds4629]

what if it's doubles, and I'm covering a lob for my partner at net (who then slides over). So I'm in the red zone, where do you hit the Overhead? At the enemy net player? Down the middle? down the open line to the enemy baseliner?

[@MeikeBabelTennis]

If you have control over the ball, go the opposite net player's feet. They will not have any reaction time. If you're off balance go back to the opposite baseline and get back in position.

[@tennisteuton]

"He gave me the easiest ball I could imagine: an overhead" - Andre Agassi, "Open" When I heard this passage, I had to laugh. But also seeing Sampras jumping into the smash, maybe natural athletes like Sampras and Agassi find it easy to "just go for it" because they trust their bodies. On the other hand, I find myself and others not aggressive *enough* when an opportunity calls for it, like not advancing fully to the net when volleying. Maybe there is a mental block somewhere that hinders us from playing completely free.