HOW DO  BRUSH A TENNIS BALL?

 

When we talk about brushing a tennis ball, we talk about spinning a ball
wherewith strings we give rotations to a ball.
The most common brushing or stroking is from down up, known as spin or topspin
and from up toward down – known as a slice or underspin.

At the moment I can think of another 2 sports where we do a lot of brushing:
table tennis and billiard.

1. When we do a drop shot, we should do a lot of “slice brushing” because we want
the ball to “escape” from our opponent. The ideal would be if the ball could bounce
back over the net. That would be ideal.

2. Topspin is brushing from down up and the positive effect is that the
ball bounces with acceleration and that awkward bounce is a bit hard
to predict and that is why it is my favorite technical hit while playing
on a clay court.

3. Slice stroking is very much in use especially on grass or hard court
because a good slice doesn’t really bounce high, on the contrary, it
kind of slips. That is why it is vastly used when a player approaches the net.
The other guy has to go on that low ball very much under and like that it
is easier for the guy on the net to do volley shots.

4. During the second service we do most of the brushing and we do it always.
We do brushing not only up and down but left and right as well.

We do it because we want that the ball bounces away from the returner, so
we add a lot of sidespins as well.

Remember, a lot of brushing makes the ball bounce awkward but on the other
side, as more spin – less speed and power you get.