advice slice serve

[Rams]

When hitting a slice serve on the deuce side, should you pronate the wrist?

 

[103xStateChamp]

Yes........

 

[Bagumbawalla]

Don't even think about your wrist when serving.

Grip the racket with a mediun tension that allows your wrist a little bit of flex. Because of the forces involved, you wrist will never stay perfectly stiff, but will rock just a bit like a sort of hinge.

As your racket strikes the ball, if your timing is good, your wrist will be pretty much straight at impact. At the point of impact, your forward motion is checked and there is a SLIGHT flexing that is a part of the total smooth flow of motions that make up the serve.

Do not try to force anything. As much as possible, keep the action loose and fluid.

Good luck,

B

 

[SFtennisGG]

All text book serves in tennis will have the wrist pronating. You're thinking about carving the outside with a supination movement and hence you're asking this question, right? This is a common mistake people make when serving slice. You should be imparting that slice spin as your racquet is "opening up" and not "closing"...hope Im making sense.

 

[Bagumbawalla]

SFTGG (above) makes a good point.

To expand on that observation.

Hittin "flat" or hitting slice the plane of the racket face meets the ball, in both cases, pretty much the same.

What is different is the path the racket takes through the ball.

With a flat serve, your racket path follows pretty much through the center of the ball (as if you were nailing a spike through the middle).

Wit a slice serve, everything is virtually the same, except, the racket head follows a path that takes it somewhat across the "equator" of the ball- causing the spin. So, you are hitting through AND to the right (if you are righthanded).