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FOREHAND STROKE [15 records]

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Record 1 2012-02-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
CONT

The number associated with each ... racquet is a power rating, so it’s easy to select the level of power and control best suited to your style of play.

CONT

... it is unlikely you will regularly use the two-handed forehand unless you can create the same range of shots, power and placement that you have achieved with the single-handed stroke.

CONT

Uncocking the laid-back wrist creates a whippy motion that gives her racquet head speed and, as a result, pace.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
CONT

Les amateurs du jeu de fond et les joueurs puissants choisiront une raquette plus lourde en tête parce qu'elle leur donnera plus de puissance (effet de masse).

CONT

Faire une pause [au moment du service], si brève soit-elle, après la flexion du bras, réduit sensiblement la puissance emmagasinée au début de mouvement en plus de nuire au rythme et à l'harmonie du mouvement.

CONT

Servir aux trois quarts de sa puissance, en donnant beaucoup d'effet à la balle.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
CONT

[El golpe liftado es un] golpe que se efectúa de abajo-arriba. Muy lento, pero seguro. Se utiliza para controlar la pelota y para darle potencia al golpe.

OBS

La potencia del croata Goran Ivanisevic se impuso: 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7-3).

PHR

Dar potencia al golpe.

PHR

Acumular, desperdiciar, perder potencia. Golpear con (excesiva) potencia. Sumar (una cantidad adicional de) potencia a la pelota.

Key term(s)
  • poderío
  • poder
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Record 2 2012-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

A ground stroke played by left-handers to the left of the body, and by right-handers to the right.

CONT

For the right-handed player, all strokes on the right side of the body are forehand and all strokes on the left side of the body are backhand.

CONT

When Greg Rusedski hits a tennis ball, it seems to involve a lot of moving parts. A lean six-foot-four and 190 pounds, he’s all arms and legs as he whomps his big serve and whacks his forehands and backhands.

CONT

After Becker plopped a forehand into the net, he offered a perfunctory handshake at the net without even glancing at Voinea.

OBS

Both the French and Spanish make much use of the anglicism "drive", albeit not in a correct fashion : In English "drive" is supposed to imply a ball hit with a lot of pace to win a point outright, regardless of the type of spin used to accomplish this task, and regardless of which side it is hit(forehand or backhand).(The terms "shot" and "stroke", being more neutral, need not imply any added spin whatsoever.) However in both French and Spanish, "drive" is also used often as a synonym for "forehand"(shot/stroke).

PHR

Backspin, blistering, crosscourt, dipping, dishrag, dodgy, flat, full, inside-out, lefthanded, powerful, running, scorching, sharp, slice, topspin, whippy, winning forehand.

PHR

To club, crack, dip, execute, fire, flip, hook, line up, loop, poke at, rip, slam, smack, snap, stroke, unload, whack a forehand. To come over, contact, hold, nail the forehand.

OBS

Forehand can break down, tends to fly.

PHR

Forehand side, slice.

PHR

Forehand on the run.

Key term(s)
  • forehander

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

[...] coup après rebond de la balle effectué habituellement au fond du terrain, du côté du corps dont la main tient la raquette.

CONT

Pour un droitier, tous les coups donnés à droite sont considérés comme des coups droits et à gauche comme des revers.

OBS

Dans une source européenne on relève, «un droit» (décocher des droits foudroyants) pour signifier le coup droit, mais aussi, et de façon incorrecte, l'anglicisme «drive» admis en Europe. Ce dernier terme signifie en réalité «un coup puissant renvoyant la balle avec force en lui faisant raser le filet» et ne doit pas être utilisé comme synonyme de coup droit, tout coup frappé avec la paume de la main faisant face au mouvement de la balle, que le coup soit exécuté de la droite ou de la gauche.

OBS

À éviter l'anglicisme générique «drive». Ce terme peut être aussi synonyme de «coup d'attaque». À propos, il existe divers types de coups droits : à plat, lifté (généralement à vocation offensive), coupé (souvent coup d'attente).

CONT

[Elle] fait partie de la nouvelle génération des joueuses qui frappent très fort au coup droit et au revers et elle possède un excellent service.

PHR

Coup droit dévastateur, décroisé, en course, fulgurant, puissant/précis, tendu.

PHR

Joueur doté d'un bon coup droit.

PHR

Croiser un coup droit.

Key term(s)
  • coup d'avant-main

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
DEF

Golpe que se ejecuta en el lado derecho del cuerpo.

CONT

El golpe de derecha, o «drive», es el golpe más básico del tenis.

PHR

Golpe de derecha cortado, liftado, plano.

PHR

Realizar un golpe de derecha.

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Record 3 2012-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

Action of hitting the ball and the resulting action. ... A player is deemed to have attempted a stroke if he faces up to the ball with his racket, attempts to play and misses.

CONT

A shot is the combination of a stroke and the situation in which it is used.

CONT

The technical manner of hitting the tennis ball(forehand, backhand, volley, etc.) and the resulting action combine to constitute a stroke.

CONT

The height and direction of the bound can be affected by the nature of the surface, the amount of spin, the weather conditions and ... the power of the strike.

CONT

Compact backswings and short, smooth strokes are best [if you want to use the new Dunlop Max Enforcer tennis racquet].

CONT

Player and ball are together during the stroke.

OBS

Important nuance: a "stroke" implies early preparation and a complete follow through. If one were to envision a stroke, one would see a series of sequences, ending with a "shot", i.e. the result of all of the above. A "shot" is the result of the "stroke". "Shot" implies a quick, sharp movement because one is focusing on the end result, not the series of sequences leading up to it. One speaks of "classical strokes" rather than "classical shot". A "blow" on the other hand is rather a blunt, general term similar in meaning to "shot". Although many would like to maintain these nuances in English, "shot" and "stroke" can often be used synonymously. "Blow" is used only rarely. Note, however that although there are two possible equivalents ("coup" and "frappe") in French, neither are semantically identical to the English offerings.

PHR

Attacking, awkward, backhand, basic, big, choppy, classical, compact, competent, controlled, defensive, drive-type, flowing, fearsome, forehand, full, ground, ineffective, jammed, left-handed, limiting, looping, normal, pet, precise, punched, punch-type, short, smooth, soft, static, sustained, tennis, topspin, two-handed, unorthodox, versatile, volley, weak, wristy stroke.

PHR

Stroke of the rally. Stroke production. Arsenal of strokes. Stroke folds under pressure.

PHR

To complete, develop, execute, make, mistimed, rush, take a stroke. To groove, modify, shorten one’s stroke. To follow through with a stroke.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Mouvement au cours duquel la raquette est portée à la rencontre de la balle jusqu'à l'impact.

CONT

J'ai vu [des] volées, techniquement bien amorcées, finir comme une gelée fondant trop vite, parce que la frappe manquait de fermeté.

CONT

Au moment de la frappe, le tamis doit être légèrement orienté vers le ciel afin que la balle soit dirigée du bas vers le haut pour lui permettre de passer le filet.

CONT

Il faut leur faire apprendre à ralentir leur coup pour commettre peu d'erreurs.

OBS

À moins qu'on ne fasse pas allusion à un coup particulier pour lequel il existe déjà un terme fixe, p. ex. : coup droit, on devrait utiliser le terme «frappe», terme sémantiquement moins précis.

PHR

Frappe accélérée, énergique, ferme, foudroyante, plate, puissante, sèche, souple.

PHR

Fermeté d'une frappe. Geste, point, puissance, rythme de frappe.

PHR

Coup de qualité. Solidité des coups.

PHR

Ajuster, précipiter, raccourcir un coup.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
CONT

Muster prosiguió su inspiradísima racha de golpes ganadores y Bruguera acabó por rendirse, ante la evidencia de que su condición física [...] era inferior a la de Muster.

PHR

Golpe de ataque, avanzado, básico, blando, compacto, defensivo, delicado, desconcertante, fuerte, molesto, natural, (nada) ortodoxo, preliminar, vistoso.

PHR

Ejecución, preparación de un golpe. Precipitación en el golpe. Una serie de golpes.

PHR

Amagar, dirigir, efectuar, ejecutar, enriquecer, mejorar, realizar un golpe.Conectar, iniciar el golpe. Descomponer en tiempos un golpe. Conocedor de los golpes.

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Record 4 2012-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

Either the area close to the left sideline or the area close to the right sideline of a tennis court. Sometimes used to refer to the side from which a stroke is initiated, as in the phrase, "he is steady on both wings", i. e. he is consistent on both the backhand and on the forehand sides.

OBS

Warning: the term "side" is both generic and ambiguous in tennis. Depending on the perspective of the person using the term, it can either mean the area to the left or right of him, or the area on the other side of the net (=end). To avoid ambiguity, qualify the term "side" (the opposing side = el campo de su adversario) or use the term "wing", depending on the circumstance. Compare with "end".

CONT

[Seles] creamed the ball off both sides with the same old vengeance ....

CONT

It’s his forehand side that can break down, but his opponent can fire from both wings very effectively.

CONT

That side is as solid as rock. She hit well on both sides.

CONT

You may feel you’re leaving yourself unprotected on the flanks....

PHR

Backhand, forehand, open, strong, weak side.

PHR

To hit cleanly on both sides. To hit off both sides. To overload a side.

PHR

Side that cracks under pressure.

PHR

Backhand/forehand side has deserted him.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Terme générique pour désigner l'aire de jeu de long de la ligne de côté du simple ou du double sur un court de tennis.

CONT

Agrandissez la zone de tir du côté faible de l'opposant.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
OBS

campo: término genérico.

CONT

Durante el saque, el jugador debe colocarse, alternativamente, en el lado derecho e izquierdo de su campo [...]

CONT

Casi ninguno de los principiantes, cuando comienzan a ejecutar movimientos por el drive y por el revés, observan esta especie de «miedo» a realizar la volea por el lado del revés [...]

CONT

¿Puede el jugador que efectúa el saque, en un partido de individuales, colocarse en la parte de la línea de fondo, y detrás de ella, situada entre las líneas que delimitan lateralmente el campo para individuales y las que lo delimitan, asimismo lateralmente, para los partidos de dobles?

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Record 5 2012-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

A shot, usually hit without much pace, aimed very accurately at an open area of the opposing court. Since the opponent usually is not able to make a clean contact with the ball, it is sometimes considered synonymous to "winner". Slightly different from "passing shot", which implies a "winner" in which the opponent makes no contact with the shot whatsoever.

CONT

... it is unlikely you will regularly use the two-handed forehand unless you can create the same range of shots, power and placement that you have achieved with the single-handed stroke.

PHR

Winning placement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Coup si adroitement placé que l'adversaire ne peut atteindre la balle.

OBS

Mise en garde : le terme «placement» est polysémique dans le monde du tennis. Faire un placement consiste à diriger la balle sur un point précis du terrain dans le but de déjouer l'adversaire.

OBS

Les bons placements de balle et la finesse du jeu sont des aouts importants dans les doubles.

CONT

Suite à une première balle ordinaire on peut, par exemple, si le joueur monte au filet, tenter un coup en précision en parallèle ou croisé.

Spanish

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Record 6 2011-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

An offensive groundstroke where the tennis ball is propelled forcefully with either top spin or with a flat-faced racquet deep into an opponent’s court. Such a quick shot would barely clear the net.

OBS

Both the French and Spanish make much use of the anglicism "drive", albeit not in a correct fashion : In English "drive" is supposed to imply a ball hit with a lot of pace to win a point outright, regardless of the type of spin used to accomplish this task.(The terms "shot" and "stroke", being more neutral, need not imply any added spin whatsoever) However in both French and Spanish, "drive" is often used as a synonym for "forehand"(shot/stroke), or like English it can refer to any hard shot, whether on the backhand or forehand side.

CONT

... driven shots down the line can travel above head height at the net and still drop inside the base-line.

PHR

Angled, backhand, cross-court, deep, flat, forehand, hard, penetrating drive.

PHR

A drive leaves the racket.

PHR

To hit, return, rip, smack, wallop a drive. To thread the needle with a drive.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Frappe de la balle avec force après son rebond. La balle tombe habituellement dans le fond du terrain.

OBS

drive : terme générique qui ne s'emploie guère au Canada. Utiliser plutôt «coup droit» ou «coup de revers», ou «boulet» (coup puissant) selon le cas.

CONT

Les coups d'approche. Il s'agit d'un coup droit ou d'un revers d'attaque sur une balle courte de l'adversaire qui préparent une montée au filet destinée à conclure le point.

CONT

Effet brossé de revers [...] Voilà un coup d'attaque qui requiert un parfaite synchronisation.

PHR

Drive lifté, d'attaque, éclair.

PHR

Délivrer des drives.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
OBS

El anglicismo-término «drive» puede tener dos traducciones inglesas: 1) drive (sentido genérico) 2) forehand drive (sentido específico). El término «golpe de ataque» es genérico y así puede tener traducciones diferentes según el contexto.

CONT

Revés liftado [...] Este golpe de ataque requiere perfecta coordinación.

CONT

[El golpe liftado de derecha] es, normalmente, de ataque, es un golpe que suele desbordar bastante está bien ejecutado y que se emplea, sobre todo, para mover al contrario de un lado a otro, siendo muy efectivos los golpes cruzados; en este caso, el cruzado de derecha, haciendo que, como el bote es rápido y muy alto, el contrario, para devolverlo, tenga que salirse literalmente de la pista.

PHR

Golpe de ataque angulado.

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Record 7 2011-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
DEF

A short-angled shot aimed for the sideline.

OBS

Both the French and Spanish make much use of the anglicism «drive», albeit not in a correct fashion : In English «drive» is supposed to imply a ball hit with a lot of pace to win a point outright, regardless of the type of spin used to accomplish this task.(The terms "shot" and "stroke", being more neutral, need not imply any added spin whatsoever) However in both French and Spanish, «drive» is often used as a synonym for "forehand"(shot/stroke), or like English it can refer to any hard shot, whether on the backhand or forehand side. A hook shot is a type of angle shot.

CONT

Angled drive. Tactics. A useful ploy is to hit angled cross court drives ....

PHR

Sharp angle shot.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
OBS

Un bon stratagème consiste à frapper croisé en angle, tel qu'illustré. Tombant soit près de la ligne de côté, soit entre la ligne de service et la ligne de fond, le coup déborde l'adversaire, laissant le court ouvert pour le prochain coup.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
CONT

Drive angulado. Tácticas. Pegar drives cruzados y con mucha angulación, como ilustra la figura, puede dar buenos resultados.

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Record 8 2011-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
CONT

The use of both hands to make a stroke, either backhand or forehand, makes it a two-handed or two-fisted stroke.

OBS

two-hander: slang.

PHR

To drill, hit, tag a two-handed shot.

Key term(s)
  • two-handed drive
  • two-fisted shot
  • two-handed shot

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
OBS

à deux mains : certains joueurs tiennent leur raquette à deux mains pour la mouvoir.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
OBS

A dos manos: Ejecutar el swing cogiendo la raqueta con ambas manos.

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Record 9 2011-03-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
CONT

... it is unlikely you will regularly use the two-handed forehand unless you can create the same range of shots, power and placement that you have achieved with the single-handed stroke.

PHR

To hit a one-hander.

Key term(s)
  • one-handed shot

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
CONT

[...] al realizar un golpe a una mano, estamos casi de espaldas, o, como poco, teniendo a un lado la red.

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Record 10 2011-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
CONT

Mayotte... advances to the net to hit a volley but he does not put enough strength into his stroke and, with the ball landing on his service line, Chang is allowed to move forward and hit a vicious cross-court forehand, well out of Mayotte's reach.

PHR

To dip a cross-court forehand.

Key term(s)
  • crosscourt forehand
  • crosscourt forehand drive
  • crosscourt forehand shot
  • cross-court forehand drive
  • cross-court forehand shot

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
CONT

[...] Agassi s'adjugeait une deuxième manche éclair par un coup droit croisé sur la ligne [...]

Spanish

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Record 11 2011-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
CONT

Opponents will be used to reading forehand returns from the traditional [one-handed] stroke and may find it less easy to assess pace and direction off the two-handed hit.

OBS

impact, hitting action: also used in badminton.

PHR

Downward hit.

PHR

To soften the hit.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
CONT

Les pieds bien écartés entrent dans la frappe, ce qui abaisse le centre de gravité et favorise d'autant la stabilité.

OBS

impact : terme de badminton.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
CONT

Separe mucho los pies y avance hacia el impacto, agáchese todo cuanto pueda y ganará estabilidad.

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Record 12 2006-08-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
CONT

Mayotte... advances to the net to hit a volley but he does not put enough strength into his stroke and, with the ball landing on his service line, Chang is allowed to move forward and hit a vicious cross-court forehand, well out of Mayotte's reach.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Évaluation de l'espace à l'intérieur duquel un joueur de tennis est en mesure de frapper un retour de balle en tenant compte de la longueur de son bras, de la distance qu'il est raisonnablement en mesure de franchir sur le jeu et de la vitesse de la balle.

Spanish

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Record 13 2000-07-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
CONT

... final between [Becker and Lendl, Becker] shows how to break the rhythm with a topspin forehand, hit on the run, to Lendl in the forecourt. The pace of the dip on the ball causes Lendl to mistime his stroke.

CONT

To hit the ball on the (dead) run.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette

Spanish

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Record 14 1996-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
OBS

Both the French and Spanish make much use of the anglicism «drive», albeit not in a correct fashion : In English «drive» is supposed to imply a ball hit with a lot of pace to win a point outright, regardless of the type of spin used to accomplish this task, and regardless of which side it is hit(forehand or backhand).(The terms "shot" and "stroke", being more neutral, need not imply any added spin whatsoever.) However in both French and Spanish, «drive» is also used often as a synonym for "forehand"(shot/stroke).

Key term(s)
  • flat forehand shot

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
OBS

Trayectoria recta, poco efecto, golpe clásico del tenis. Es el golpe más rápido que existe.

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Record 15 1995-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
CONT

... it is unlikely you will regularly use the two-handed forehand unless you can create the same range of shots, power and placement that you have achieved with the single-handed stroke.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Deportes de raqueta
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