Closed Or Open Racket Face In The Forehand? Two Tennis Forehands Compared
What's better - a closed or a more open racket face on the forehand backswing? In a side by side comparison of closed vs open face forehands we can see that the main challenge is time available until the racket face gets correctly aligned to hit a forehand. The closed racket face forehand has way less margin of time to get the stroke right whereas the open racket face forehand has more margin to hit a controlled tennis stroke.