How To Watch The Ball Like Roger Federer in Tennis.
When it comes to watching the ball in tennis, nobody does it as well as Roger Federer. Download our FREE tennis guide here - [ Ссылка ]
Federer tracks the tennis ball perfectly and does something very unique in the process. For many tennis players, as we're about to make contact with the tennis ball, we make one lethal mistake. We lift our heads and our eyes shift focus away from the tennis ball towards either our intended target or our opponent. This is a great way to destroy your timing in tennis and ruin the quality of your tennis strokes. By lifting our head, we lose balance and lose focus of the target, which is of course the tennis ball, at the most critical part of a tennis stroke, the contact zone.
How To Watch The Ball Like Roger Federer:
Roger Federer is known as the maestro, and he makes tennis look so easy and effortless to many. One of his best qualities on the tennis court is his ability to maintain his focus on the target, the tennis ball.
Federer is famous for turning his head and holding that position until way after the contact point.
Why Does Federer Do This?
Roger Federer turns his head towards the contact point on his forehand, backhand, slice and volleys so that BOTH eyes can see the strike zone.
Most players have one dominant eye and one non-dominant eye when it comes to watching the ball in tennis.
If you're a right-handed tennis player, chances are you're left eye dominant.
If you don't turn the head properly as you make contact on either your forehand groundstroke or your forehand volley, you'll be watching the ball mainly with your non-dominant eye which is the right eye.
By turning the head to the side and creating a triangle between the right eye, the left eye and the ball, you can now zone in properly using both eyes.

Can You Really See The Contact Point In Tennis?
Since the actual contact point happens so fast, it's almost impossible to see the blur of the ball hitting your strings.
That being said, however, what is possible is to see the ball rising up to your racket and then coming off the strings.
This is the key to hitting the ball much cleaner and more in the sweet spot on the racket.

Watching The Ball Properly (At All Times)
To really make a huge difference to your tennis game, try to watch the ball:
- As your opponent makes contact with the ball. This will allow you to react quicker and recognize where the ball is going much faster. This in turn will allow you to move to either the forehand or backhand side earlier, and start your racket preparation much sooner, creating time for yourself.
- As the ball passes over the net
- As the ball bounces on your side of the court
- As the ball rises towards your strike zone
- As the ball comes off your racket

Video Timeline:
00:00 - Why Roger Federer Turns His Head When He Hits The Tennis Ball
00:56 - Can You Really See The Contact Point?
01:58 - How To Hit The Sweet Spot More Often
02:50 - Creating The Triangle at Contact

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