What tips can you give to make it so i can serve the ball with out hitting the net so much. I try to not tilt.

Question

I Am a big guy and I'm learning to play tennis with some people. I have an O.K back hand and front but my serve need alot of work.
For some reason i can't break the habbit of tilting my racket and way I can use a strat to keep it straight.

Answer 1

alright, heres what i did to get my serves over, i would practice by standing completing straight, with the racket over head also straight. then i would hit he ball without moving my body at all, it feels werid, looks werid, isnt hit hard, but it gets over, i did that for a while and then slowly progressed to the point where i can just serve normal.

Answer 2

OK no offense, but don't listen to the guy before me. I'm a 5.0 level player and am an alternate for the UCLA tennis team.

If you're tall and still hitting the net, you have two problems.
Either you're not tossing the ball high and forward enough, or you're not snapping your wrist.

You should hold the continental grip while serving, which is a grip as if you're shaking hands with the racquet or as if you're using it as a hammer. With this grip, your wrist should be generating the spin off the serve, and you need to literally snap your wrist at the top of the toss to generate heavy spin.

Now for your toss. You should be tossing 1 foot ahead of you and higher than you normally are now. The positioning of the toss depends if you're lefty or righty, so check out some extra resources on toss angles. Moreover, you should definitely keep your chin up following the ball all the way through.

If you're big, you definitely shouldn't be hitting the net
try those out and see how it pays off.
I guarantee it will

Answer 3

okay, i've read alot of answers.. and my answer is very different.. but i can't help it.
If you are hitting it into the net, you could be pulling your left arm or head down to early. If you pull your left arm down after your toss too soon you will be serving into the net all day long no matter what you do.
Second, keep your head upppp. In practice try keeping your head up so you don't even see your ball bounce into the court--you should only see the sky, literally!
This should help.
Also, your toss is too far INFRONT. If you toss it up infront just think... its all physics. If you toss the ball infront the angle you are getting from your racket is going down. If you toss it a little further back, then your angle is higher, and you have a MUCH better chance of getting it over the net.
Also, don't stand straight up... oh dear, no.
You should be bending your knees, and no matter how tall you are you should be jumping to get a better angle into the court.
if you are already jumping then maybe yoiu are jumping to late so when you are hitting the ball your whole body is already falling back down. So try jumping up to your toss a little bit earlier (even if it seems awkward at first) Then you will be sending your body up, there fore sending the ball up instead of into the net.

Answer 4

If you hit the net often on your serve, it could be one of a few different things.

First, the toss may not be high enough.
Second, you may be tossing the ball too far out in front of you.
Third, people have a tendency to drop their head and shoulders just before the moment of impact.

Practice keeping your chin up while you serve. Keep looking up at the sky and hold your toss hand fully extended through the entirety of the serve.

If you toss the ball more over your head, your serve won't go down as much. Toss it out in front, and the biomechanics have your upper body falling down during the serve, thus pulling it down.

You want to make contact at the apex of the toss. If you think about it, is it easier to hit a moving ball (one that's dropping due to toss being too high), or one that's virtually stationary (like at the apex right as gravity has equalled out accelation of the toss)?

Answer 5

Try tossing the ball into your body a bit more, instead of out in front of you. This will force you to hit up on the ball and keep it from going into the net as much.

Answer 6

Keep your head up! That's the most important thing. Another is to make sure your toss is high enough, but not too high. You don't want to wait for the ball to come back down to your racquet. That is too hard to time. Practice, practice, practice.

Answer 7

Ok, you need to toss the ball higher. If you do, it will go over. It should go forward, pushing you a little into the court too.

Answer 8

For serving well is u have to keep excercising more & more till you get it right.