If you practice hard enough and do it the right way, you’ll trust your second serve when you find yourself in a tense match. Just follow these five steps. A Western grip might work for banging f ...

Thinner grips make it easier to play in today’s wild-Western forehand ... more and whip it,” says Roman Prokes, owner of RPNY Tennis in New York City and stringer to many pro players.

This is the way to hold the racquet for the serve, volley, sliced backhand and smash. It is known as the chopper grip, because it is the way you would hold an axe. It allows you to swing the racket ...