How To Hit Your Forehand Like Novak Djokovic

I don't you can actively "close" racquet face after ball hits the strings. Topspin is generated from upward swing path instead of the closing of racquet face.

@Huge Tennis. Sorry, but knowing how he does it and being to replicate it are two very different things. lf it was as simple as watching your video and being able to shadow it, more club players would doing it when they're hitting on the court. They don't because they don't have the skill, not because they don't know how. That's true for all the great, and even not so great pros. lt's why they're pros and we're not.

Thx!

These Western grip forehands are so UN Feng Shui !Some are so far over, that the twist to the back hand grip is almost redundant.The fundamentals of Tennis professional instruction are NON existent.The pros today abandoned them long a go.All the power of a forehand is generated in the flick of the wrist at the last second.In a vicious small circle of horror. Where every joint from shoulder to elbow to wristis contorted and painful to watchThe mechanics alone are sheer torture to the wrist and elbow.Instead of naturally driving up and over a ball, the wrist and forearm must contortdrastically to go from a parallel face to a perpendicular face before impact.In the old days these grips we're (Western grips) called Fly Swatter grips.The kind of grip children and beginners played withThe Eastern grip forehands we're as far as good racket and arm mechanics we're allowed.The finish of these over compensated top spin swings issheer ugly torture. Especially in the open stance where 90% of "Pro's" hit their forehands. I think the USTA and ATP standards ofinstruction are a professional standards disaster.Roger Federer and Novak Djokovik may be the last greatest exceptions to the rule.The war between Nick Bollettieri and Dennis Van Der Meer 40 years agodestroyed USTA Teaching Professional Standards for the sake of rich kids getting "Lessons" that consisted of hitting two handed back handsand Western grip fore hands as hard as they could all day long for theGIANT $$$ MONEY they threw at Bollettieri for baby sitting future Mongoloidgrunt machines with nightmare strokes !

The same way Gasquet backhand

Let me help u a little bit when u see him close over the shoulder he hit the ball more flat when he needs more top spin he closes the requet head down ,that is how u mannage a more flat and more spin ball ,in the end the way that the player close is just a product of the choice a player make during the hitting fase.more power close over the shoulder more top close down ,the way u hold the grip can influence that to.

Should i use pat the dog ?

Djokovic might be famous for his backhand but his semi-western forehand is so solid

Djokovic is Neo from Matrix

4:20 Strikes with flat Raquet face? Its clearly closed face. And maybe thats why he doesn't have to close anymore like federer but move the racquet vertically up to generate that top spin?

4:22 Djokovic doesn't close the racket face as Roger because is a different mechanic stroke. Djokovic hits with the arm bent hence the racket face after hitting the ball is more open and closes later than Roger's which has a straight arm stroke which comes with a racket face that closes more and faster after he hits the ball. Try and see the two scenarios how your racket face will go... Also his grip is more semi western and not at all western for ones that think is western then look at Kyrgios

Djoker doesn't drop the racquet head on the backswing because his grip is western. Swinging straight through the ball will give him plenty of spin. SO many players with western and deep semi-western grips want to do the Federer forehand, and end up framing the ball. Don't ask me about how Nadal does it. His shots make no sense to me. Djoker is a better modern player to emulate, because his strokes are so stable, and their mechanics are obvious. He's like the Obi Wan Kenobi of tennis. Master of the fundamentals. Nadal is too weird, and Federer's is just too difficult for people with normal/high (but not insane) hand eye coordination. It's kind of funny, because Federer LOOKS like his strokes are so fundamental, but his forehand is SO difficult to pull off.

Nice video but was more interested in seeing the wrist position at finish of the stroke i think thats very important as it forces a high finish - wished u ve shown that little more

Nice video, do one on Nadal's forehand. It is so unique!

One thing you may have missed on the take back is his leading with the right elbow which is like a bump instead of looping like many of the wta players do. This keeps the racquet to his right side instead of getting it behind him on his left.  He has the same racquet angle as Fed on his take back.  Good video!