Talk:Grip (tennis)

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Geez, someone should have the strength of character to change all the "continental"s and "Continental"s to Continental, or vice versa. Plus the Eastern and "Western"s, of course....

"With the racquet held so that the hitting surface is vertical to the ground"... I'm an absolute beginner at tennis, and I have to ask what "vertical to the ground" is supposed to mean. Wouldn't "parallel" or "perpendicular" be more appropriate?

It's a very badly worded sentence. But it's hard to describe. What is being said, I think, is that the racquet should be held so that the strings of the racquet are perpendicular to the ground, in other words, straight up and down rather than being in a plane as if it were lying on the ground. Hayford Peirce 19:54, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to change the one handed backhand information a bit. The current info is incorrect a bit. 03/06/07

[edit] A picture for 1000 words

Wouldn't a picture or two help this article out a great deal? At the moment the words are complex and the overall outcome lost for the sake of a couple of pictures. The article also doesn't mention the Hawaian - Trident13 13:24, 1 July 2006 (UTC)