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Shoulder Rotation

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Shoulder Rotation

This month, we'll take a look at another common and controversial technical component: torso rotation. Top players are rotating their shoulders 90 degrees or more in the forward swing on many balls. How does this factor work, when does it happen, and how does it apply to your game?

Shoulder rotation has become extreme in pro tennis, but how does this apply to you?

Figure from Shoulder Rotation

John Yandell is widely acknowledged as one of the leading videographers and students of the modern game of professional tennis. His high speed filming for Advanced Tennis and Tennisplayer have provided new visual resources that have changed the way the game is studied and understood by both players and coaches. He has done personal video analysis for hundreds of high level competitive players, including Justine Henin-Hardenne, Taylor Dent and John McEnroe, among others.

In addition to his role as Editor of Tennisplayer he is the author of the critically acclaimed book Visual Tennis. The John Yandell Tennis School is located in San Francisco, California.

Source: tennisplayer.net archive — John Yandell-Your forehand and the modern forehand-Shoulder Rotation.docx (John Yandell teaching library, 2002-2022). Extracted and rendered as HTML for Tennis Future Lab.