Diary Post- 4th April 2022- A Day At the Court Practicing My Backhand

Hello friends, welcome back to my blog.

So since the strike started 2 months ago, I decided to get better at other things, for instance, I have been practicing my trading skills, exercising, and playing tennis.

Back i school i didn't have a proper coach because we didn't have one in school, so when we came back home I decided to get a coach for myself. I have been training for the past 3 weeks and I feel I have made significant improvement since I started training with my new coach.

I have been able to have a decent forehand, at least 9/10 shots are good balls and I can't be more proud of myself. So today we focused more on my backhand.

We started practice a bit late today, we kicked off by 7:15 AM, we would usually start a lot earlier but a few kinds of stuff happened and we couldn't.

So right before we started he gave me instructions on the concept of Backhand in Tennis, how I should play it, and when I should play it.

It was quite difficult to know which type of backhand I could play, whether single hand backhand or double hand backhand, but at the end of the day I settled for double hand backhand.

I have seen players like Federer play beautiful backhand, his technique is a lot tougher and very hard to master, perhaps that is why only a few professional players play single, players like Novak and Nadal play double hand backhand and they are world champions. So I stuck with a doublehand backhand.

We started with 30 backhand balls, we practiced, and surprisingly i hit a few good balls in the first trial. Subsequently the my swings was becoming very efficient and constant.

I was quite surprised because i have been practicing tennis for 8 months now and never have i practiced my backhand shots, i majorly hit slices so hitting good balls and in a single training session looked like a miracle to me.

So we set a target to hit 20 balls perfectly at a stretch, i want able to hit 20 perfect backhand balls, but i was able to hit 15 straight backhand shots and that's a new all-time high for me.

After spending about an hour practicing and mastering my backhand swings and shots we proceeded to play a decent toss. We played for about 30 minutes, i finally feel like a decent tennis player which an efficient forehand and backhand swing.

I practice more in the coming days, io usually plays on Mondays and Thursdays because i am always free on these days each week.

I hope you guys enjoyed my training session today, i will bring more exclusive training sessions to you guys on Thursday, I will practice my service which is by far one of the toughest techniques in tennis.

cc:@steemcurator01

All the images used in this post are absolutely mine and were taken with my iPhone 11 device