Topspin serve drill

[Balint]

The following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VshIcpmQfc topspin serve drill video promises to help
1. where you need to toss the ball
2. how to get the feel for topspin

Is that right? I meen, in the video the ball is tossed very low, I am afraid it can causes wrong habits by the toss.

I would like to learn and practise topspin serves, but I need for my wind-up und swing rather high toss, and my toss is not enough consistent. Could you recommend me this video drill?

Thank you for your answer

Balint

 

[dct693]

When the video says it will show you "where" to toss the ball, it means "where relative to other serves". Of course you won't be tossing the ball that low on any serve. But it's meant to show you that for a (non-disguised) topspin serve, the toss should be more to the left (assuming you are right-handed) than for a slice or flat serve. So in this case, the "where" is relative, not absolute.

If you have an inconsistent toss, you'd better work on that first. Unbreakable rule of serving: inconsistent toss = inconsistent serve. It doesn't matter what kind of serve you are trying to hit. You can't have a good consistent motion with your racquet hand if your toss is in a different location each time.

There are plenty of videos on youtube about working on your toss. They are not very exciting but so crucial. It's the most boring yet neglected part of the serve.

Good luck.

 

[TennisCJC]

Search youtube for heath water's kick serve video's. There are 2 videos - part 1 and 2. I think he references Federer in the title. It is reasonably good over view of how to hit a kick serve.

A good drill for topspin/kick: get a bucket and go stand about 20 feet outside the back fence if you have room at one of your practice courts. Then serve over the fence, over the net and into the service box. hit a bucket over the fence and then come back inside and work on hitting kick with 2 foot of net clearance.

If you don't have a court that works for drill above, then try hitting the ball as high as you can with spin and pulling it down inside the opposite baseline. Hit it like 20-30 feet into the air.

 

[LeeD]

Also, think about high level tennis serves.
The players with high tosses can have erratic tosses, but guys like Lendl do practice the toss a lot, and need a very accurate toss.
The low toss guys usually have less problems with toss accuracy, because the ball travels a much shorter path.
Tanner, Goran, Cash, had low easily accurate tosses, even in the wind and sun.