Elevate Your Tennis Game with the Perfect Topspin Lob

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  • Опубліковано 19 лип 2023
  • Most lobs in tennis are a defensive play. You will most likely hit them behind the baseline when your opponent attacked the net. The topspin lob is the more aggressive variation and has a number of benefits:
    It travels faster and gives your opponent at net less time to get ready.
    It has a lot of action off the bounce that will continue to move the tennis ball away from the opposite player when they try to run down your topspin lob.
    If you want to learn the other variation, the lift lob or slice lob, check out this video: • How to hit a lob in te...
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  • @MeikeBabelTennis
    @MeikeBabelTennis  Рік тому +2

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  • @AaeriosYT
    @AaeriosYT Рік тому +3

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  • @thomasmedeiros5722
    @thomasmedeiros5722 Рік тому

    I spent lots of days on Clay back in the 70’s and 80’s . We all watched the touring pros and picked up the top spin lob. It’s a great closing shot after you bring your opponent in with a drop shot or sharp angle slice the stays low so they have to pop the ball up . Often this helps set you up to hit a top spin lob. On clay footing is slippery so it’s challenging to move forward slide to a stop the run back towards the baseline. Unless your opponent has a great jumping overhead you will draw lots of errors. The great clay court champion Guillermo Vilas was one of our role models and a master of of the top spin lob and the overhead smash to counter its effectiveness.

  • @asbestomolesto
    @asbestomolesto Рік тому

    I always used it! I learned by looking at Agassi back in the '80. We trained playing tennis in a volleyball field, to be forced to play it every time. It was an amazing training - the volleyball field is shorter, and the net is so hign! :) I always used a very extreme (western) grip and the important thing is that you must TRUST the topspin effect. It's amazing :) the ball hit the ground and jumps away...

  • @nathanmiller6051
    @nathanmiller6051 Рік тому

    Amazing! instruction ☑️ personality ☑️ communication ☑️ passion ☑️ gift for teaching ☑️ in no particular order................ I'm always impressed and delighted! Thanks Coach Meike 🙏 excellent lesson!

  • @bjreed1251
    @bjreed1251 Рік тому

    Nice skill building video, thanks for showing self-feed!

  • @anthonydecinque8348
    @anthonydecinque8348 Рік тому

    Could you talk a little about loading the legs versus keeping your head still? In this video, for example, you made a comment about loading the legs to get extra topspin, and it makes sense that vertical movement by the body would add to spin. But I've seen elsewhere that the forehand motion should be like skipping a stone - with plenty of power coming from the ground but not so much vertical movement by the body. That makes sense too. It's hard enough to hit a tennis ball without your head moving vertically at the same time. So which is it? Do the legs make the body (and head) rise during contact? Or do the legs push the body horizontally but not vertically? A mix of the two?

  • @manujohn99
    @manujohn99 Рік тому +1

    So for Topspin Lob do we use Continental grip or Eastern grip???

    • @alexsausl
      @alexsausl Рік тому

      Looks like an Eastern to me - but would also love to hear the answer from Meike.

    • @manujohn99
      @manujohn99 Рік тому

      @@alexsausl Yaa lets see what she will answer 🙂

    • @MeikeBabelTennis
      @MeikeBabelTennis  Рік тому +2

      Use your regular forehand grip or backhand grip that is not a continental. Eastern, Semi western. Theoretically, you could probably hit a topspin lob with continental but it would be REALLY difficult.

  • @bournejason66
    @bournejason66 Рік тому +1

    Do you open the racket face to hit the topspin lob?

    • @MeikeBabelTennis
      @MeikeBabelTennis  Рік тому +2

      Racketface should be neutral or even slightly closed. It's the friction on the ball you're creating with that steep upswing that creates the lift.

    • @bournejason66
      @bournejason66 Рік тому

      @@MeikeBabelTennis thank you coach🙏👍🎾

  • @manujohn99
    @manujohn99 Рік тому +2

    Shameless over-closing 😆😆🤣🤣🤣
    Yaa people do shamelessly stand too close to the net 🤣🤣🤣

    • @MeikeBabelTennis
      @MeikeBabelTennis  Рік тому

      I've been telling this particular player for years now and I finally got it on film :-)