To return a first serve confidently, begin with a good starting grip. Place your top hand in the backhand position and your bottom hand in the forehand grip so you can easily swap between a ...

Initially, Gauff’s forehand looked to need a grip adjustment, too. Like Swiatek, she basically grips her racket from underneath the handle — a heavy western grip. Changing a forehand grip ...

Ernests Gulbis dramatically altered his forehand setup and grip, resulting in this: Sharapova and the ever evocative Gulbis—whose slide continues—are high-profile examples, but the case of ...