When hitting topspin Forehand, what grip is recommended?

Topspin Forehand is the most used stroke.

It can be with less or more spin.
More spin means more brushing and this means more slow ball
and less power in that ball.
It also means more awkward bounce for your opponent.

Topspin is convenient to send not only ball with sudden
bounce but it is easier to send the long and deep balls.
Also, this type we need to hit to buy time when we are in
a difficult situation.

The best grip to have for topspin is a semi-western grip.
Also, lower string tension helps.

There are many players who don’t find the semi-western grip to be
enough but they go more extreme into the west grip.

This position looks almost as we are holding a frying pan.
It gives a lot of spins because we can easily brush but on the other side,
it is not easy to hit strong.

Same thing we have, when we make the second serve. A lot of brushing can be
very dangerous for a server. If it is not hit both – strong and deep.
Why?
There is nothing easier than to attack the ball on the rise. A ball that is a
just with a lot of spins but not deep nor fast.

Topspin we do not make only by brushing from down up but also we do
“covering” a ball. With a western grip, it comes easy since our strings
are almost parallel with the ground.

If we do not go enough under the ball (by putting the wrist more down or
going with knees more down), with the western grip it looks like we are
just covering
the ball, so it is expected that the ball can not go over the net.

That is why the Western grip is for competition players or advanced level.

What do we do to make topspin?

1. Take semi-western grip (see my article about it),

2.  make dorsal flection with the wrist (wrist position like in
basketball before throwing the ball). I

3. Put your wrist in the lowest position so it will look like the racket
is pointing at 4 or 5 o’clock.

4. From the same position go in the upper (all the way up) position. It will look
like the racket is pointing at 1 or 2 o’clock.

That wrist down up movement and art “down-up” movement are creating topspin.

Covering the ball with the racket is just to add spin but for good topspin, it
is enough just to go from down to up, without “the covering”.