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There's no way you're going to gain respect on court if play well but pick up a tennis ball like a clumsy beginner. In order to really make an impression on your opponent you'll have to pick up tennis balls like a true jedi master.

Find the most comfortable footwork for volley by experimenting. No need to focus on closed and open stance, just try them all and see which one is the most comfortable. Find which one allows you to drive the racquet forward and

If you want to control the volley you need to use slice. This is why you need to use continental grip. See how uncomfortable it is to play a slice volley with an eastern forehand and backhand grip.

This is how you would volley if you wanted to hit the ball flat - with an eastern forehand and backhand grip. This type of volleying of course doesn't work well. You need to slice the ball slightly. And that's when you realize that you need a different grip. Check the next video in this series.

If you try to swing at the ball with your volley, you'll get in trouble. I suggest that you actually try to volley with a swing when ... all » someone feeds you a fast ball. You have no control of the ball and the direction.

You already know how to hit the ball, now you just need to add more power. Just hit more.

In order to serve fast and with good consistency, you need to spin the ball slightly. It's much easier to do that if you position yourself sideways and adjust the grip.

It's not easy to find pronation in the serve on your own. You either need to see it in action or a tennis coach shows you how to do it. There is a lot of power hidden in it.

The most obvious way to serve in tennis is like this. But you know that none of the pros serves like this, right? So how did a tennis serve evolve?

The first key in developing tennis volley technique is understanding the angles. Your racquet face determines the direction of the volley. I hold the racquet with both hands to better feel how to change the angle and where the ball consequently goes.

This last video in the Origin of tennis technique video shows how you need to combine the two main keys to hitting a good forehand or backhand - hitting forward through the ball and spin. Now just look for the most comfortable way of doing this and your technique will develop as a consequence of these two goals.

The best way to develop good tennis footwork is by experimenting and feeling which footwork feels best, gives you the best balance and best way to transfer weight into the ball. This video shows forehand and backhand footwork in various ways.

This video shows you how you can find a forehand grip by experimenting and feeling which grip is the most comfortable. No need to read tennis instruction manuals, just play and try.

This video shows what happens if you just swing at the ball with forehand or backhand without hitting straight for a while. This is the second part of Tennis tehnique series.

This is the first video of the Tennis Technique series. See how the direction of the outgoing ball is determined by the racquet head angle.

The key to developing a powerful tennis serve is the acceleration or the racquet drop. There are 5 more videos in the full serve instruction guide for tennis beginners.

Tennis beginners need to learn backhand groundstroke in a step-by-step progression to improve in the fastest way. This is only 1 of the 49 video clips in the full version of the How To Play Tennis Video Instruction Guide for tennis beginners.