Sentence examples for continental grip from inspiring English sources

The prescribed continental grip felt awkward when I first began to serve.

Moving, always moving, and all the time thinking and checking off: Maintain the continental grip, the base knuckle of the index finger of my left hand resting on the bevel one notch counterclockwise from the racket handle's high noon.

He stretched wide to his forehand, shifting to a continental grip to block back a heavy Hewitt forehand, then sprinted to his left to run down Hewitt's approach shot.

"I ask questions". It wasn't as if Venus and Serena Williams needed instruction on the continental grip.

How to: Your ready position will be holding the racket in your right, or dominant hand, using a continental grip, ball in your left hand (a).

Hold your racquet with a continental grip.

It was a matchup of players with classic strokes, continental grips and all-court styles.

For the past decade, writes Phelps, "most of western continental Europe has been gripped by a new slowdown, one that has brought the productivity growth rate far below the rate enjoyed by Americans and most others in the world's population those in China, India, South Korea, Scandinavia, central Europe and Ireland, to name most of the buoyed up populations".

Tipsarevic sprinted forward, shifting his forehand grip to a continental one, then lifting the dying ball up the line deep to Baker's backhand.

Just one of their subsidiary agencies is the National Weather Service, which provides weather forecasts and warns of hazardous weather conditions like the polar vortex now gripping much of the continental United States.

Between them, they overran much of the remnants of Henry's continental holdings, further eroding the Angevin's grip on the continent.