The forehand maneuver is greatly popular in the game of Tennis. This maneuver is ordinarily used to slap the ball diagonally over the net. The forehand slice refers to hitting the ball when your forearm is facing the net. When the ball is on the side of your body grasping the racket (right side if you are right handed, left side if you are left handed) you will be using the forehand. To fulfill a flawless forehand blow, follow these steps:

Step 1: Get prepared and get in position. If you know the ball is going to your strong side, adjust to hit a forehand. First, side step (or shuffle) over to the ball. At this point your body should be facing the net, but remember to keep your eyes on the ball.

Step 2: Open up your stance. This is the part where you need to rotate yourself sideways. To do this, turn your backfoot so it is parallel with the baseline and the net. Simultaneously, take a small step forward with your other foot (this foot will be your left if you are right handed, or your right foot if you are left handed). Bend your knees and prepare for the ball to enter into your hitting zone.

Step 3: Make contact with the ball. This step should follow less than a couple seconds after the second step. Your stroke of the racket should follow your step forward, causing the whole procedure to be a single, fluent motion.  Your racket should follow an upside down arc pattern. The stroke should start up high about shoulder height, swing down to below the waist, and then be traveling upwards again when it makes contact with the ball. Topspin is your goal when playing Tennis.

Step 4: Follow through. After the contact is made, make sure you follow through with a full swing. Do not simply make contact with the ball and then stop. Rather, keep your arm moving until the stroke is completed, and then prepare yourself for the ball to be hit back. Great job, you completed a forehand slice!

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Step 1: Get prepared and get in position. If you know the ball is going to your good side, adjust to hit a forehand. First, side step (or shuffle) over to the ball. At this point your body should be facing the net, but bear in mind to keep your eyes on the ball.

Step 2: Open up your stance. This is the part where you need to rotate yourself sideways. To do this, turn your backfoot so it is parallel with the baseline and the net. At the same time, take a small step forward with your other foot (this foot will be your left if you are right handed, or your right foot if you are left handed). Bend your knees and prepare for the ball to enter into your hitting range.

Step 3: Make contact with the ball. This step should occur less than a few seconds after the second step. Your swing of the racket should follow your step forward, causing the entire procedure to be one, fluent motion.  Your racket should follow an upside down arc pattern. The slice should start up high about shoulder height, swing down to below the waist, and then be traveling upwards again when it makes contact with the ball. Topspin is your goal when playing Tennis.

Step 4: Follow through. After the contact is made, make sure you follow through with a full slice. Do not merely make contact with the ball and then freeze. Rather, keep your arm moving until the slice is completed, and then prepare yourself for the ball to be returned. Great job, you completed a forehand slice!

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Step 1: Get ready and get in position. If you know the ball is going to your strong side, prepare to hit a forehand. First, side step (or shuffle) over to the ball. At this point your body should be facing the net, but bear in mind to keep your eyes on the ball.

Step 2: Open up your stance. This is the part where you need to turn yourself sideways. To do this, turn your backfoot so it is parallel with the baseline and the net. At the same time, take a small step forward with your other foot (this foot will be your left if you are right handed, or your right foot if you are left handed). Bend your knees and prepare for the ball to enter into your hitting range.

Step 3: Make contact with the ball. This step should happen less than a few seconds after the second step. Your stroke of the racket should follow your step forward, causing the entire process to be one, fluent motion.  Your racket should follow an upside down arc pattern. The stroke should start up high about shoulder height, swing down to below the waist, and then be traveling upwards again when it makes contact with the ball. Topspin is your goal when playing Tennis.

Step 4: Follow through. After the contact is made, make sure you follow through with a complete stroke. Do not merely make contact with the ball and then freeze. Rather, keep your arm advancing until the slice is completed, and then prepare yourself for the ball to be returned. Great job, you completed a forehand slice!

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Step 1: Get prepared and get in position. If you know the ball is going to your good side, adjust to hit a forehand. First, side step (or shuffle) over to the ball. At this point your body should be facing the net, but bear in mind to keep your eyes on the ball.

Step 2: Open up your stance. This is the part where you need to rotate yourself sideways. To do this, turn your backfoot so it is parallel with the baseline and the net. At the same time, take a small step forward with your other foot (this foot will be your left if you are right handed, or your right foot if you are left handed). Bend your knees and prepare for the ball to enter into your hitting range.

Step 3: Make contact with the ball. This step should happen less than a couple seconds after the second step. Your stroke of the racket should follow your step forward, causing the entire process to be a single, fluent motion.  Your racket should follow an upside down arc pattern. The stroke should start up high about shoulder height, swing down to below the waist, and then be traveling upwards again when it makes contact with the ball. Topspin is your goal when playing Tennis.

Step 4: Follow through. After the contact is made, make sure you follow through with a complete slice. Do not merely make contact with the ball and then freeze. Rather, keep your arm moving until the stroke is completed, and then prepare yourself for the ball to be hit back. Great job, you completed a forehand stroke!

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Playing career:
Jahangir was coached initially by his father, Roshan Khan, the 1957 British Open champion, and then by his cousin Rehmat Khan, who guided Jahangir through most of his career. Ironically, during his earlier years, Jahangir was a sickly child and physically very weak. Though the doctors had advised him not to take part in any sort physical activity, after undergoing a couple of hernia operations his father let him play and try out their family game.

In 1979, the Pakistan selectors decided not to select Jahangir to play in the world championships in Australia, judging him too weak from a recent illness. Jahangir decided instead to enter himself in the World Amateur Individual Championship and, at the age of 15, became the youngest-ever winner of that event.

In November 1979, Jahangir’s older brother Torsam Khan, who had been one of the leading international squash players in the 1970s, died suddenly of a heart attack during a tournament match in Australia. Torsam’s death affected Jahangir profoundly. He considered quitting the game, but decided to pursue a career in the sport as a tribute to his brother.

Rivalry with Jansher Khan:
At the end of 1986 another Pakistani squash player, Jansher Khan, appeared on the international scene to challenge Jahangir’s domination. Jahangir won their first few encounters in late-1986 and early-1987. But Jansher scored his first win over Jahangir in September 1987, beating him in straight games in the semi-finals of the Hong Kong Open. Jansher then went on to beat Jahangir in their next eight consecutive encounters and capture the 1987 World Open title.

Jahangir ended Jansher’s winning streak in March 1988, and went on to win 11 of their next 15 encounters. The pair met in the 1988 World Open final, with Jahangir emerging the victor. But by that point it had become clear that squash now had two dominant players. The pair would continue to dominate the game for the rest of the decade. Jansher and Jahangir met a total of 37 times in tournament play.

Jansher won 19 matches (74 games and 1,426 points), and Jahangir 18 matches (79 games and 1,459 points). This record doesn’t include exhibition matches and league matches between them. Jahangir did not win the World Open again after 1988, but he continued a stranglehold over the British Open title which he captured a record ten successive times between 1982 and 1991.

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Step 1: Get ready and get in position. If you know the ball is going to your strong side, adjust to hit a forehand. First, side step (or shuffle) over to the ball. At this point your body should be facing the net, but remember to keep your eyes on the ball.

Step 2: Open up your stance. This is the part where you need to turn yourself sideways. To do this, turn your backfoot so it is parallel with the baseline and the net. Simultaneously, take a small step forward with your other foot (this foot will be your left if you are right handed, or your right foot if you are left handed). Bend your knees and prepare for the ball to enter into your hitting range.

Step 3: Make contact with the ball. This step should occur less than a few seconds after the second step. Your stroke of the racket should follow your step forward, causing the entire process to be one, fluent motion.  Your racket should follow an upside down arc pattern. The slice should start up high about shoulder height, swing down to below the waist, and then be traveling upwards again when it makes contact with the ball. Topspin is your goal when playing Tennis.

Step 4: Follow through. After the contact is made, make sure you follow through with a complete stroke. Do not merely make contact with the ball and then stop. Rather, keep your arm advancing until the slice is completed, and then prepare yourself for the ball to be returned. Great job, you completed a forehand stroke!

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Singles, the greatest strain in tennis, is the game for two players. It is in this phase of the game that the personal equation reaches its crest of importance. This is the game of individual effort, mental and physical.

A hard 5-set singles match is the greatest strain on the body and nervous system of any form of sport. Singles is a game of daring, dash, speed of foot and stroke. It is a game of chance far more than doubles. Since you have no partner dependent upon you, you can afford to risk error for the possibility of speedy victory. Much of what I wrote under match play is more for singles than doubles, yet let me call your attention to certain peculiarities of singles from the standpoint of the spectator.

A gallery enjoys personalities far more than styles. Singles brings two people into close and active relations that show the idiosyncrasies of each player far more acutely than doubles. The spectator is in the position of a man watching an insect under a microscope. He can analyse the inner workings.

The freedom of restraint felt on a single court is in marked contrast to the need for team work in doubles. Go out for your shot in singles whenever there is a reasonable chance of getting it. Hit harder at all times in singles than in doubles, for you have more chance of scoring and can take more risk.

Singles is a game of the imagination, doubles a science of exact angles.

Doubles is four-handed tennis. Enough of this primary reader definition.

It is just as vital to play to your partner in tennis as in bridge. Every time you make a stroke you must do it with a definite plan to avoid putting your partner in trouble. The keynote of doubles success is team work; not individual brilliancy. There is a certain type of team work dependent wholly upon individual brilliancy. Where both players are in the same class, a team is as strong as its weakest player at any given time, for here it is even team work with an equal division of the court that should be the method of play. In the case of one strong player and one weaker player, the team is as good as the strong player can make it by protecting and defending the weaker. This pair should develop its team work on the individual brilliancy of the stronger man.

The first essential of doubles play is to PUT the ball in play. A double fault is bad in singles, but it is inexcusable in doubles. The return of service should be certain. After that it should be low and to the server coming in. Do not strive for clean aces in doubles until you have the opening. Remember that to pass two men is a difficult task.

Always attack in doubles. The net is the only place in the court to play the doubles game, and you should always strive to attain the net position. I believe in always trying for the kill when you see a real opening. “Poach” (go for a shot which is not really on your side of the court) whenever you see a chance to score. Never poach unless you go for the kill. It is a win or nothing shot since it opens your whole court. If you are missing badly do not poach, as it is very disconcerting to your partner.

The question of covering a doubles court should not be a serious one. With all men striving to attain the net all the time every shot should be built up with that idea. Volley and smash whenever possible, and only retreat when absolutely necessary.

When the ball goes toward the side-line the net player on that side goes in close and toward the line. His partner falls slightly back and to the centre of the court, thus covering the shot between the men. If the next return goes to the other side, the two men reverse positions. The theory of court covering is two sides of a triangle, with the angle in the centre and the two sides running to the side-lines and in the direction of the net.

Each man should cover overhead balls over his own head, and hit them in the air whenever possible, since to allow them to drop gives the net to the other team. The only time for the partner to protect the overhead is when the net man “poaches,” is outguessed, and the ball tossed over his head. Then the server covers and strives for a kill at once.

Always be ready to protect your partner, but do not take shots over his head unless he calls for you to, or you see a certain kill. Then say “Mine,” step in and hit decisively. The matter of overhead balls, crossing under them, and such incidentals of team work are matters of personal opinion, and should be arranged by each team according to their joint views. I only offer general rules that can be modified to meet the wishes of the individuals.

Use the lob as a defence, and to give time to extricate yourself and your partner from a bad position. The value of service in doubles cannot be too strongly emphasized since it gives the net to the server. Service should always be held. To lose service is an unpardonable sin in first-class doubles. All shots in doubles should be low or very high. Do not hit shoulder-high as it is too easy to kill. Volley down and hard if possible. Every shot you make should be made with a definite idea of opening the court.

Hit down the centre to disrupt the team work of the opposing team; but hit to the side-lines for your aces.

Pick one man, preferably the weaker of your opponents, and centre your attack on him and keep it there. Pound him unmercifully, and in time he should crack under the attack. It is very foolish to alternate attack, since it simply puts both men on their game and tires neither.

If your partner starts badly play safely and surely until he rounds to form. Never show annoyance with your partner. Do not scold him. He is doing the best he can, and fighting with him does no good. Encourage him at all times and don’t worry. A team that is fighting among themselves has little time left to play tennis, and after all tennis is the main object of doubles.

Offer suggestions to your partner at any time during a match; but do not insist on his following them, and do not get peevish if he doesn’t. He simply does not agree with you, and he may be right. Who knows?

Every doubles team should have a leader to direct its play; but that leader must always be willing to drop leadership for any given point when his partner has the superior position. It is policy of attack not type of stroke that the leader should determine.

Pick a partner and stick to him. He should be a man you like and want to play with, and he should want to play with you. This will do away with much friction. His style should not be too nearly your own, since you double the faults without greatly increasing the virtues.

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Five sets later, Del Potro walked off the court with the title, defeating the seemingly undefeatable Federer 3-6, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2. With the loss, Federer’s hopes of setting tennis records by winning six US Open titles in a row disappeared.

The Swiss player was hardly at the top of his game, losing his composure at times during the match. He exchanged curses with the chair empire and committed more double-faults than he has previously in final matches. As the balls flew past him, one gained the impression that Federer had no idea how to stop Del Potro. Nevertheless, the match was a difficult one for both players, and each battled throughout the long contest. Del Potro certainly ended some of Federer’s greatest records. The Swiss tennis star had won 40 consecutive matches at Flushing Meadows, had won 33 of his previous 34 Grand Slam matches, and has made 17 finals at his past 18 Grand Slam tournaments. Del Potro, on the other hand, entered with a fraction of Federer’s experience; the Argentine was playing his first Grand Slam final. However, Del Potro had already upset Rafael Nadal in the semifinals. The win laid the groundwork for his match against Federer. “Maybe I look back and have some regrets about it,” said Federer. “But, you know, you can’t have them all and can’t always play your best. “I would like to congratulate Juan Martin on an unbelievable tournament. I had a great one myself, too,” Federer went on, “but he was the best.” Federer seemed unstoppable in the first set, taking it 6-3. Events took a turn for the worst for the world No. 1 in the second set, however; the first set was a warm up, and Del Potro seemed on fire as he won the second set on a tiebreaker 7-6 (5). Although he lost the third set 6-4, the Argentine seemed to gain confidence from his initial win. The fourth set brought the most struggle in the match. Del Portro broke service once, while Federer broke it twice. The set ended on a tiebreak; Del Potro won, and pushed the match to a fifth a final set. It was here that Del Potro crushed Federer, smashing the Swiss player 6-2 and winning the match and the title. During the interview after the match, Del Potro said, with tears in his eyes, that he had had two dreams coming into the US Open: the first was to win the Open; the second to play as well as Federer. He had, he said, accomplished one of these – he’d won the US Open. He added that he still needed to improve to become like Federer one day, though. The 4-hour, 6-minute match was the first U.S. Open final to go five sets since 1999 while Del Potro was the first Argentine to win the US Open since 1977.

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Her return to tennis coincides with her compatriot, Kim Clijsters’, astonishing feat: winning the US Open after two years of absence, and particularly, beating two of the best tennis players of the circuit – the Williams sisters. Henin’s return may have been motivated by her compatriot’s success at the US Open.

Clijsters proved that, even as a mother with 26 years behind her and a two-year absence from tennis, anything was possible. Henin herself points to Roger Federer’s win at the French Open as the cause, and claims she considered returning as soon as mid-July. For weeks rumors have circulated, although Henin hadn’t made any comments on her website, nor had her spokeswoman returned press calls on the matter. On Tuesday, Henin finally made the announcement on live Belgian television. She stated that she would begin the 2010 season with several exhibition tournaments and then hoped to play through the 2012 Olympics. “It’s surprising, because on the 14th of May 2008, I put a definitive end to my career,” the returning player said. “And then, there was a long personal journey. And then the flame I thought was extinguished was relit.” The announcement comes as no surprise, as the tennis superstar has been softening in her insistence that she will not return to tennis in recent months. When asked of her return earlier this month at a conference on her work as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, the former world No. 1 told the press to “come back and ask me later.” The return of the formerly great player will make no small impact on the tour. Henin is still young at 27, and the skills she developed over her career will not have faded in only 18 months. She has always been a ferocious competitor, an incredible advantage in today’s tour. During her professional career, Henin won four French Open titles out of a breathtaking total 41 career titles. She first reached the No. 1 spot in 2003 and has won almost every major tennis event with the exception of Wimbledon; she also won an Olympic gold medal in 2004. She picked up an impressive $19 million in prize money during her professional years. She was still reigning champion in May of 2008, when she retired – the first top-seeded player to do so. She complained of the physical pressure on her body due to the tour, and has since opened a successful tennis academy. Henin was known as one of the greatest tennis players of all times due to her beautiful one-handed backhand, her tremendous athleticism, and her incredible work ethic on the courts. Carlos Rodriguez will contine as Henin’s coach. Her goal, he said, is Wimbledon next year; she’s been runner-up twice, and with a Federer/Clijsters-esque performance, she will aim for Wimbeldon 2010. “I’m very happy to be helping her to restart her new life,” Rodriguez stated. “It’s a super challenge for her. The desire to win Wimbledon is one of the main reasons she’s come back, and I’ll do everything to help her do it.”

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Her withdrawal did not, however, bring joy to Sharapova, who wanted to win the final through her own efforts. Nevertheless, the Russian understood the need for withdrawal; the tennis star had had surgery on her should last October, not returning to tennis until May. The title is Sharapova’s first since her surgery and the 20th of her career.

Her last title was attained in April of 2008 at Amelia Island. Sharapova got off to a rough start; the Servian Janovik began strong, breaking her Russian opponent’s serve and taking a 2-0 lead. Sharapova, however, rallied and took the next four games. By the time Jankovic took a timeout to have her right arm examined by her trainer, Sharapova had taken the lead in the first match 5-2. The Serb managed just two more points after the medical timeout before deciding to withdraw. After Jankovic left the court, Sharapova expressed her disappointment but nonetheless hoped for the Serb’s quick recovery. “It was a tough start today. Jelena started off so strong. It’s disappointing. It’s toward the end of the year and there are a lot of injuries so I wish Jelena a speedy recovery. It was my second final of the year and I was a bit nervous. But I played well enough this week to know I could give her a good match. I just wanted to keep fighting out there and unfortunately Jelena had to stop,” said the Russian. Tokyo is the place in where the 22-year-old Russian attained her first WTA singles and doubles titles, at the 2003 Japan Open. With this most recent victory, Sharapova is looking forward to her last event of the season at the Beijing tournament, where she hopes to play in top form. After Beijing, Sharapova will prepare herself for the offseason, during which she will train even harder for a strong 2010 performance. “I have one more tournament left in Beijing. During the off-season, I’ll be training and working on my game. It’s going to be really a good time for me to create a good base. Actually I have a good enough time to prepare for the next year. I’m really looking forward to the period,” Sharapove said. Jankovic, on the other hand, will try to rehabilitate her arm before the Beijing tournament, but also said that her entry would depend on her doctor’s advice. If a short-term recovery becomes unlikely, she will prepare herself for the offseason. The best of luck to these two great tennis players; hopefully both players will be able to demonstrate their great superb athletic skills at Beijing and prepare for an even better year next season.

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