Welcome to the single strategy drill. The drill we're going to work on in this video is hitting it inside out forehand. The inside out forehand is probably one of the most popular and most potent shots that you can use when playing singles. 

The reason being is that you can pinpoint your strength generally your forehand to your opponent's weakness. And even if it necessarily isn't your strength, you have some other benefits with the forehand going to the backhand, meaning that the forehand is going to have more reach and you position yourself because it has more reach on the backhand side. 

So what this does is it makes it harder for your opponent to get to your backhand, especially if you don't like your backhand and it makes them have to go down the line. Now we know that if they go down the line, they're putting themselves at risk as long as you hit the ball deep enough, which opens up an opportunity for you to run them again. Cross Court.

 Now this is going a couple of steps further, but this is why the forehand is so important. This is why players like Roger Federer and Djokovic have used the shot so efficiently because it really helps you control the court. So the very first thing we want to do is just focus on the fundamentals of hitting the inside out forehand. So the number one fundamental we want to understand is from this position is we´re going to do a drop step.

This foot's going to come back to get us in this position to move around the ball. So from here, once the ball's being hit, I'm going to move around the ball. I want to put my butt out a little bit to make sure as I'm moving back as a counterbalance to many players when they try to hit it, sometimes will move like this and they'll find themselves losing their balance and you don't want that. 

So once we get around the ball, we're going to shuffle back and then get into a position where we can position our body to hit the ball inside out, meaning my forehand to my opponent's backhand if they are right-handed. And when we're hitting this, we're not trying to hit winners. We're basically trying to send this message to I'm using my strength. 

And if you want to get out of this, you have to hit to a shorter part of the court on the backhand side, or you need to change directions. If not, you're going to have to deal with me constantly hitting forehands to your backhand. So let's work on this. Have a partner or a ball machine just simply feed you a shorter ball somewhere around here and then work on getting around it.

That's the first phase that we're in to work on, so let's get started. So partner feeds, I get around and all I'm doing is hitting and getting around, getting around and then recovering. Ok, getting around and then recovering, making sure that when I go there, I'm not having to aim so close to the line. If you're missing it too far on the outside, you're aiming to close the line. 

And the timing for this is you're going to have to wait a little bit longer for the ball to come back. Now the second part is we're going to add the inside in now. This is really important distinction that you need to know when using the inside in. We rarely want to go inside in from this position because it puts us out of court. 

And what I mean by inside is I'm taking my forehand now to their forehand. This is not a good situation. This is like going down the line and opening up the court up to my opponent. We want to mainly think about hitting inside ends from the middle of the court and running my opponent because I'm in a better position.

 So how we're going to do this is combine the two hitting where you have a ball machine or partner feed you a ball that puts you in this position where you hit an inside out and then as you're recovering, get another ball in the middle and then hit this inside in.

This is the one two combo. There's so many of the pros use to be successful on the tour, so let's try it. And you can see I'm not really going for a ton of,a ton of pace on this. It's not about hitting it hard. It's about the positioning and moving the ball around and using your forehand and controlling the court.

 The more you can control the court with your forehand, the more you're going to be able to control your opponent. And that's the key. So make sure you practice these drills a lot. What I recommend when you do these drills try to do in sequences, so I would do my inside out forehand, probably like six times in a row, then take a little break. 

Do it again and see if I can cluster six inside out forehands in a row. If I'm doing this last row, I would do a same six balls, but in two ball sets, I mean, I'm going to hit my inside out and I hit my inside in. Then do it again and I'm trying to get six balls without missing. If you can do this, you're going to have more confidence when you step on the court and you're going to be able to dominate your opponents and singles using your forehand.