{"id":22,"date":"2018-05-13T20:24:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T20:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mntennis.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2018-05-13T20:24:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T20:24:27","slug":"practicing-backhand-slice-and-backhand-volley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mntennis.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/13\/practicing-backhand-slice-and-backhand-volley\/","title":{"rendered":"Practicing Backhand Slice and Backhand Volley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having good slice shots is very important. \u00a0A lot of juniors learn to make topspin shots from the baseline. \u00a0But it is important to eventually learn how to make slice shots. \u00a0That is because by mixing up your shots, topspin shots and then slices, you can confuse your opponent and also some juniors may not be able to handle going from hitting topspin shots to slices. \u00a0Also slice shots are a great way to play defense. \u00a0If you have a two-hand backhand, when you hit a backhand slice, you use just one hand, and then you can reach farther then if you had a two-hand, backhand shot. \u00a0Overall knowing how to slice is very important. \u00a0Plus, here is a bonus: \u00a0the backhand slice is very similar to making a backhand volley, and also a backhand drop shot.<br \/>\nHere is M today with her coach practicing backhand slices and backhand \u00a0volley slices.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"M practicing Backhand Slice and Backhand Volleys\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XCeoCDLFAh4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having good slice shots is very important. \u00a0A lot of juniors learn to make topspin shots from the baseline. \u00a0But it is important to eventually learn how to make slice shots. \u00a0That is because by mixing up your shots, topspin shots and then slices, you can confuse your opponent and also some juniors may not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,4,5,13,17,19,21,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mntennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mntennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mntennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mntennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mntennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mntennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mntennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mntennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mntennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}