{"id":204166,"date":"2025-01-21T05:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T11:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/spin-has-transformed-modern-day-tennis-heres-the-physics-behind-it"},"modified":"2025-01-21T05:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T11:11:22","slug":"spin-has-transformed-modern-day-tennis-heres-the-physics-behind-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/spin-has-transformed-modern-day-tennis-heres-the-physics-behind-it","title":{"rendered":"Spin has transformed modern-day tennis\u2014here\u2019s the physics behind it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dlIV7uHI300?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Watch any match at this year\u2019s Australian Open and you\u2019ll see balls curving in the air or bouncing higher or lower than expected. Players such as Novak Djokovic, Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff are particularly masterful at the art.<\/p>\n<p>The secret? It\u2019s all about spin.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to control a tennis <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ball\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ball<\/a>\u2019s spin has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/08\/30\/sports\/tennis\/tennis-evolution-four-grips.html\" target=\"_blank\">transformed the modern game<\/a>, making it faster and more spectacular than ever. But how exactly do players make the ball move through the air or bounce off the court like that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch any match at this year\u2019s Australian Open and you\u2019ll see balls curving in the air or bouncing higher or lower than expected. Players such as Novak Djokovic, Iga Swiatek and Coco Gauff are particularly masterful at the art. The secret? It\u2019s all about spin. The ability to control a tennis ball\u2019s spin has transformed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}