From this point simply swing forward and up and the racquet will naturally become vertical at contact, provided that you swing from the shoulders and do not get too wristy.
As a schoolboy with an avid interest in birds, David Wingate was present in 1951 when a Bermudan naturalist succeeded in weaseling the first cahow out of its deep nesting crevice.
Perhaps the Force sees fit to spare these people rigors they aeren't ready for, but to me that sounds like a stretch when I think about the horrors Gopi Krishna barely survived.