Read ahead for the most popular types of tennis grips, including how to form each grip and why it’s important to master more than one.

The Continental is the one grip that you can use for every shot, but that hasn’t been standard practice since the days of long pants and skirts. The Continental is used primarily for serves ...

In fact, the continental grip, for all its advantages as a foundation for the backhand, is about the least natural way a human being would ever hold a tennis racket.