Can you guys give me some tips and advice on how to get my serve back as well as my confidence.?

Question

I'm 16 fairly new to the sport (6 months experience) but not bad. So around June i really started to turn up the heat and i started getting drastically better going to camps and stuff and now when i play my "A" game i can give lots of the Varsity players a fight. about a month ago i was really at my peak and i had developed a pretty big a** flat serve but late July i entered this tourny and lost terribly because my service broke down i never held serve.
And i felt like i forgot how to serve... i know this sounds wierd but it was like i was serving for the very first time. So i'm wondering how to get it back because i like flat driving serves better than spin serves. now i have a good enough spin serve but i feel like i'm not using my whole body on my serve like when i served flat b4. now bending my knees and finishing with a hard downward motion feels awkward and like i cant do it. i need some advice because tennis starts back up in Feb. and i wanna make varsity.

Answer 1

For a minute, I thought you were Maria Sharapova. She has a MIA serve too.

Answer 2

High school tennis sucks. Plain and simple. The VERY best of them are actually good, but there aren't mamy of them.

First of all, NEVER hit DOWN on a serve. ALWAYS UP! Of course it won't feel like you are hitting up on most serves. Except a kicker of course, but obviously you don't know how to hit that serve.

Second, yes the percentages of hitting an ace or a service winner with just a hard flat serve is low. If you can control it and send it to the corners along with a good slice serve with great control as well, then you start hitting aces. That's the only reason I generate a lot of aces, that and I naturally have good racket head speed.

Next, if you hate spin serves and you can give your school's varsity players a fight, then your team REALLY sucks BADLY! Even my school's freshmen can hit decient spin serves. One of them actually has a good kick serve, but it still needs work.

If you want to fix this, get a coach, and fix that serve. Next, get a lot of match experience. Then, get a kick serve so you do hold serve. My kick serve keeps getting better and better, now I'm winning sets quickly and easily because of it.

If you have a crappy serve, get a great return of serve as well as a kick serve. That way, when you hold all of your serves, chances are you only had to hold 3 or 4 because you broke the other guy so many times. That's how it is with me.

First thing you should be concerned about with a serve: GETTING IT IN! (Consistently) Next thing: get it in deep, then to where you want, then with spin, THEN with pace. Spin isn't always needed since some people hit flat serves, but never hit down on your serve unless you are well over 7 feet tall.

I hit fast serves and I like my kick serve better than them. If you ever reach a high level, you will like spin serves much more than flat serves.

Answer 3

Hitting a hard flat serve is a problem. Take less off of it. What's the chance of getting an ace or a service winner? Just work your way through the point. Start trying to get some baskets in...at least 3. If you don't develop your spin serve (preferably a kick serve) then you are going to regret it in the future.

Answer 4

Hey tennis buddy,
you are experiencing what I went through last year.During that match you have played and you had performed well at the very beginning but then sth in the way you played broke down and you lost one not so difficult match.I think that your problem is partly connected to your psyche.Consult with your coach, he is the person who can tell you exactly how to brush up the technique of your serve.Practice it a lot.If there is a training wall in your club try practicing there.One more thing - while sergving repeat in your mind the moves you need to make in order to perform a serve(split the hands, toss the ball, etc.), This way you'd be more concentrated and less likely to make a mistake.

Answer 5

ok, the only issues that i ought to think of would the two be have you ever been snacking? or over ingesting. even while ingesting healthful, you will consume extra and placed on weight. additionally 3 days, insnt very long and the exercises your doing, are no longer intence adequate, and deffonitley no longer intense calorie burning. You probley burn around 3 hundred energy max. Thats probley equivelent to a sandwich. in case you have 2 months (60 days) there is alot of 60 day food plan plans. you should purchase exercises like insanisity for ninety 9 pounds. in the adventure that your that desperate, or i'd propose understanding for 2-3 hours an afternoon, and ingesting around 800-1200 energy an afternoon. goodluck.

Answer 6

Do you think you can ace your way through a whole match on your serves?Start learning to
vary your serves.

Answer 7

repition is the key just keep hitting those serves and soon they will come back also start practicing second serves just in case