Toss the tennis ball to set up a slice serve. Learn some advanced serving techniques to improve your tennis game with this free video lesson.
Coach Hill Marks has been teaching tennis, squash, and racquetball for about ten years professionally. Currently, Marks is working on a website for tennis coaching.
Okay, now to continue where we were: When you toss the ball, now I'm on the deuce side. So, let's say I want to hit a serve out wide to my opponent's forehand and that's called a slice serve. I most like am going to toss the ball more to my right so I can hit the ball on the side and slice it. Now that's more of a tosp and toss and this is a slice. So, that way I pull my opponent out wide. It's not going to be as powerful of a serve, because I don't have as much topspin on the ball to bring it down. So, when you watch Andy Roddick hit a hundred forty mile an hour serve, he's got topspin on it and that'll; that's what brings the ball down so it lands in. So, to recap, if I want to hit a slice serve, I toss the ball more to my right and I hit the ball with more of a slicing motion and if I want to hit a first serve, I'm going to toss the ball more in front and if I want to hit a second serve; more over my head. And that's how you move the ball around. But you've got to hit a lot of balls to develop this type of touch and feel where you can hit the ball virtually where you want it every time.
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