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A hitting stance where both feet are roughly parallel to the baseline, allowing the hips to rotate through the shot without a traditional weight tr...
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A hitting stance where both feet are roughly parallel to the baseline, allowing the hips to rotate through the shot without a traditional weight transfer. Open stance is commonly used for high-bouncing balls, wide balls, and when moving at speed.
Neither is universally better — open stance works well for wide and high balls, closed stance for deep, low balls where you have time to set up.
Yes, but they often over-use it and lose balance. Learning closed stance fundamentals first makes open stance more effective when you switch to it.