Concentrating On The Follow Through

Chronicle (Levin), 21 October 1948, Page 5

Concentrating On The Follow Through

The opening of a new tennis season is for many thousands of young, not so young and middl©aged people an event of extrerrie importance. Spring in-the air aets feet itching and brings a longing in enthusiasts to be on. the courts. Lawn tennis is essentiaily "a game of speed. The racquet and ball are both built for speed— the' resiliency of a highly inflated rub~ ber ball hit with an equally highly strung racquet combine to produce speed equalled only by that of a Hvell-hit golf ball. Since the ball is made to be hlt, hat it and 'hit it hard whenever you can, that is, when you can see the ball clearly and are in position to hit it. It is useless to hit without knowing where the ball is to go— in other. words -without control. A ball can be controlled, however hard it is hit, by proper "timing and following through. In every ball game w the follow through is fundamental. Even in football, a good place kicker will follow through consciously. or unconsciously. • The basis of this is that by ■ a' porrect follow through the difeetion of the foot twards the goal, is maintained — that is, control' is there. There may° not seem to be any connection between' hitting a tennis ball and kicking a football, but it is there all the same. It lies in the follow through. Begiii the season by concentrating on the follow through.