Everybody, I suppose, thinks! they know how to hold racket. Simplest, thing in the world, isn't)
Don't get running away with any idea like that!
To begin with, in England, people fare" wider @ hit of a handicap. Those great players the Dohertys used to use what wav called the "unchanging grip." You know that in lawn tennis there is a fore-hand anda. back-hand. stroke, famd_in making both these, these ferent brothers did not alter their fold on the racket.
Now don't get this wrong! It! suited them and their style of game, ind in their day there was no one in the world to beat them. But the unchanging grip does not, suit one player in a hundred, Take Miss Joan Fry, for instance, who met me in the final last year, Doesn't feel the same, does it? You haven't got any power behind the shot have you? It's just wave of the racket, instead of a stroke with force behind Exact Now this back-hand stroke very difficult to describe in more words, so T must ask you to read carefully, Keep your grip just ax it is and rest the splice of the racket—that's the triangular bit between the handle and the frame—on your left! hand. [want the face of the racket to be at right anzles with the ground, facing the ret. Now]
lo your right hand backwards, a quarter of the way round the racket. Alter the position of your! thumb so that it Hes along—the back of the handle—and fou have the back hand grip as it ought to] be used,
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