tips on serving??

Question

can anyone give me any tips or tricks to having a fast sharp serve that lands in the box in tennis or what helps you serve??thanks.

Answer 1

The fastest serves are flat serves. But they are extremely hard to get in since you have to hit the ball at the perfect angle. An easier way, though not as fast but still relatively quick, is to put spin on the ball. Hold your racket with a continental grip, and the swinging motion should resemble throwing a football. Try to imagine that you want to throw your racket to the other baseline. This should result in you slicing the ball, putting spin on it, and forcing it into the service box. While this is not as fast as flat serves, the ball curves in the air... so where it lacks speed, it makes up in movement since the ball will be much harder to predict where it will bounce.

Answer 2

I'm a nationally certified Tennis Instructor and former Top 20 tennis player in New England. So, I feel particularly well-qualified to answer your question.

Here are several quick tips to help you increase both the power and consistency of your serve:

1. Use the Continental grip.

2. Stand sideways, and sharply rotate your body towards the net as you swing forward.

3. Also as you swing forward, snap your wrist hard as you also swing upwards to meet the ball. Make sure you pronate your arm shaply as you do this.

4. Meet the ball with your arm straight and vertical, leaning slightly forwards with the racquet face facing slightly downwards.

5. Bend your knees just before hitting the ball, then stand up hard with both legs as you swing upwards and transfer your weight forward. Try to jump forwards several inches into the court.

6. Make sure you put some topspin and sidespin on the ball by making your racquet head travel upwards as it strikes the ball.

Answer 3

Take your raquet back slow and accelerate after you bend your elbow.1.....2........3.....456 should be the cadence.
If your serve is going out , toss the ball out towards the net
If your serve is going into the net, toss the ball into your body
Your wrist should pronate to the right at the moment of contact on both the deuce and ad side.
Someone really has to see it who knows what they are doing to get it to the level .my tips are solid , but blind.

Answer 4

From my experience, the best service is when you hit the ball before the balls get down, if you see all the ATP player jump when hitting the ball, Try the continental grip and let me know
good luck

Answer 5

keep ur chin up to avoid letting the ball go to the bottom of the net

Answer 6

Argentina champion.

Answer 7

toss the ball up higher

Answer 8

Practicing the Serve


Intro: I played a match several years ago while my tennis pro stayed and watched the match. Once I was done with my match I stayed out on the court and hit serves for 10-15 minutes. When I walked off the court to my suprise my instructor was still there. He said this to me which I will never forget: "Scott, that is how you will get a head of everyone else, stay out there and practice after and before matches". He was right, when I gave it some thought, most people only hit serves during matches and their quick warm-up for the match. In this article we will discuss why you should practice your serve and diffent ways to do just that.

The serve is a very important part of the game of tennis. Many people stay out all day and practice the forehand, backhand and volleys but never go out to practice the serve. The only time that these people get to work on their serve is during their matches. This would be the wrong time to work on improving the serve. The serve needs as much attention as everything else if you want your serve to be at it's best!

Practicing Techniques:
A good approach to practicing the serve (although somewhat boring) is to just grab a basket of balls and go out just to practice serving. A good goal while practicing the serve is to set up a pyramid of 4 balls in each corner of the service box on the opposite side of the court. When serving, aim for these balls. This helps people who have not yet learned to aim their serve to do so. When you are able to aim your serve, on both first and second serves, you will have a much more effective serve.

Another good practicing technique is to stand 10-15 feet behind the baseline and hit the serve. This is an effective way to get to learn to hit spin on the serve. This practicing technique was not designed to have you stand far back and try to slam serves. This technique is to develop spin. Stand back, and just use your arm, do not use your legs and to do not rotate your body and get used to the spin. Use the rainbow effect of topspin and learn to develop your topspin serve and kick serves.

When practicing the serve utilize both sides of the court. Do not just serve to the deuce side or just to the ad side. Make sure you practice equally on both sides to fully benifit your game. It is important to be equally comfortable serving on both the deuce side and the ad side.

So please please please practice the serve before and after the match! You have only to benefit yourself, if you don't then you may be benefiting your opponents.






Take from Sportsinteractive

Trouble Shooting the Serve

1. Understanding the swing verses a pull.

2. The Toss, learning to read it's location.

3. Completing the contract of the serve; keeping your head up.

The details:

1. To maintain a swing that remains consistent, the service swing must pass your face, or travel from one side of your face to the otherside of your face. This is achieved by keeping the lead shoulder over your lead foot, until after you have meet the ball. Pulling the swing will cause more power, but much less consistency As the pull rate, of the move will lower the impact zone, and develop a different rate of impact with every hit. This pull rate vs swing past your face, will mean that your serve wonders. Pulling the swing will cause the balls to go many different places, some down, some left, right, or to long. As the pull vs swing varies with each one. Finally, in the swing allow the racquet to win the race to the impact zone. Do not allow the forearm or wrist to get to the ball first, as this will cause the hit to go forward, to flat; not down into the square.

2. Understanding the Toss; is based on allowing the release point to be consistent: the tossing arm moves on an arc established from your shoulder. To keep the toss in front of you, so it does not arc and go back into you, look on the ball to let go of it. Do not look at the ball when releasing the ball, as this will cause it to curve into you. And it will be to close. Rather release the ball in front by letting go from your lead knee, not traveling while tossing, and let go of it at chin level. Additionally, do not allow the toss to wonder: keep the toss over the lead foot down and up, by not starting the swing forward to the extent that it open the left shoulder to soon. This will cause the toss to ' V ' either to the right or left of your lead foot.

2a. If your serve go to far it's because your toss is to close to you.

b. If your serve land to close to you in the net or on the ground, it's because your toss is to far from you.

c. Direction relative the box, is based on keeping the toss over the lead foot; to far either way from over your foot will cause the hit to go to far to the side from the square.

d. The most difficult serve problem to read is when the Toss is to Low at impact: it will however, cause the ball to go out at a very low trajectory, instead of down into the square.

3. All of the above is of no use at all, if you don't keep your head up past the hit. O what I call looking at where the ball was not where it's going. I promise, the square is not going anywhere, it's not going to move. Complete the contract of the swing before you look to see if it's going to go in the box, or if they are going to hit it back. They can't hit it back before you hit it in, and you can't hit it in, if your looking to see if they hit it back.

I hope this helps, the serve is must be completed as a contract first, before any additional hitting is to be done. Do the serve only; complete the contract. Walt.



How to master a basic service action!

Here at the On The Line Academy, we advocate the PRS system. Sounds complicated and technical, doesn't it? Don't worry - it isn't!

PRS stands for Place, Reach and Snap.

If you're new to tennis, just push or pat the ball into the service box to get the point started. Don't go thinking that it's "naff" to do that - you'll be getting your co-ordination ready for a full service action when you're ready for it.

When you feel you are ready for a full service action, get sideways and hold the racket with a relaxed 'chopper' grip, PLACE the ball where you can REACH for it at full stretch with a throw of the racket arm, SNAPping the wrist over as you whip the racket head through (with a flexible wrist).