Kick Serve Tips

usta2050

Rookie
I often wondered why Stosur ends her kick serve in position 6.

http://www.tennis.com/articles/templates/instruction.aspx?articleid=4863&zoneid=13

I hit a few awesome kick serves today and naturally did she did as well. It's an awesome feeling.

Some of the things that helped me was:

1. toss, toss, toss, and toss. I think this is 80% of a kick serve.
2. Thin gauge multifilament/natural gut with a good feel racket (no tweeners). I bought different rackets to try to spin my kick serves today and I have to say that the tweeners generated more spins more easily but I couldn't feel it.
3. Doug King's serve video. He's the man. Basically, his video says a tennis serve is like throwing a basketball to someone. (you must watch the video itself). A serve is a stroke. It's not a swing. Amen.
 

LeeD

Bionic Poster
Pic 5 is the end of her service motion.
Pic 6 is when she is starting to bring the racket up to chest high ready position.
 
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