Originally Posted by
Bubo
There is one more thing about drop shot.In professional tennis when you win point with drop shot, usually you do not win it directly, but with follow up shot.As HARTRIGGER says a player after hiiting drop shot has to move in the best possible position on the court (as is the case with every shot).After drop shot this movement is mostly forward.This coverage of the court has twofold advantages:
- it distracts opponent, and makes him to hit even better shot than possible which leads to errors
- it enables player that he is at the site where opponent played his shot.In that way player is able to put it away and win a point