| Too much backspin makes the ball balloon, and sidespin sends it into that lake over there. |
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| This causes the heel of the clubface to make contact with the ball first, producing sidespin and, presto, a slice. |
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| The main reason not to use sidespin is it increases the difficulty of pocketing the ball. |
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| Once you have all that down, you can still learn how to react to the wind, and whether to use topspin, backspin, or sidespin. |
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| The arched shape of these secondary grooves imparts a slight sidespin on heel and toe impacts, helping to bring the ball back on line. |
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| This system can precisely measure the true backspin, sidespin and rifle spin of the ball. |
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| These parameters translate into: Launch angle launch angle and ball speed, backspin, sidespin and side angle. |
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| The bat position is almost straight and the stroke movement from the right to the left hint at a sidespin with probably a little backspin. |
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| Bill Tierney complains that his Princeton players resist learning to put sidespin on a shot. |
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| His backhand slice, a funky shot hit with vicious sidespin, slithers and dies on grass. |
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| An inconsistent address position creates inconsistencies in the putting stroke which imparts sidespin onto the ball. |
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| You can put backspin, topspin, sidespin, all the spin you can put! |
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| A bounce shot can be hard to stop, especially if it has sidespin on it. |
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| From an inside path, the clubhead will strike the left-rear quadrant of the ball at impact, imparting right-to-left sidespin so the ball rolls nicely forward upon landing. |
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| Dwight Davis, a St. Louisnative who went on to found the Davis Cup, added a new dimension to the serve in the 1890s, using heavy sidespin to produce a curving delivery similar to the curveball in baseball. |
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| Zhang and Li hit the ball sixty miles per hour — with topspin, backspin, and occasional sidespin — yet still managed unfathomable rallies of seven or eight strokes. |
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