How To Hit The Perfect Serve in 5 Steps - Perfect Tennis (Episode 1)
The serve is the most important shot in tennis, and that's why it's important to master your serve. In this tennis serve lesson, Coach Simon Konov of Top Tennis Training will show you how to hit the perfect serve in tennis in 5 steps.
Step One: The Grip
Step Two: The Stance
Step Three: The Ball Toss
Step Four: The Swing
Step Five: Serve Plus One
Video Timeline:
00:00 - Perfect Serve Intro
00:29 - Step One: The Grip
01:04 - Step Two: The Stance
02:48 - Step Three: The Ball Toss
06:16 - Step Four: The Swing
07:56 - The Trophy Position
10:30 - The Racket Drop
11:20 - Supination and Pronation
13:10 - Snap The Wrist?
14:18 - The Follow Through and Finish
14:52 - Step Five: Serve Plus One
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This is the best serve lesson i've watched so far. Thank you a lot.
Many thanks 🙏
Whenever I get a notification of new posts from you guys my mindset immediately changes to one ready to learn and improve..bc the content never disappoints.
We have the best students in the world, with that kind of mindset 💪 Are there any lessons you would like to see in the future? Simon
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial thanks for asking! I’d love a lesson on a) improving awareness when it’s time to change tactics if my opponent is increasing their lead b) additional ball machine drills for challenging shots such as balls at my shoestrings, pulled way out wide, high backhand, etc (I liked the one you recently posted with the new machine) c) picking the right shot in a rally to be aggressive and change the direction d) overcoming losing streaks against rivals.
Can’t thank you enough, Simon. I’ve been watching your channel for a long time and truly appreciate all your videos. Although this is a topic that has been covered before, you manage to add tons of new details and explanation/tips. This shows your continuous efforts in making better and better content. Bravo and thank you. 😊
Many thanks for the support Tommy 🙏 All the best Simon
this is every tennis player's dream: having a good serve.thanks!
Absolutely 👍
Download our free serve guide here: www.top-tennis-training.com/serve-guide/
Great tutorial Simon. Thank you!
Many thanks 🙏 Are there any lessons you would like to see in the near future?
Great tutorial. I just came back from a tennis camp where the coach told me to use the wrist… What would be interesting for me is to see your video on different types of serve and the motion on those, especially types of 2nd serve like kick and slice. Achieving consistency and control without pushing the ball. Thank you!
The next two lessons are on the kick serve and slice serve, stay tuned 👍
Great video (your bedst so far ❤) clear to see the ekstra time spent on produktion 👌🏻
Another excellent video! Best coach ever. Thanks Simon you’ve taught me a lot with your videos.
Very helpful steps to follow especially in practice.
Great lesson as always, thanks. That kick serve in the beginning almost made it over the fence. For me in addition the biggest impact on my serve was adjusting my non dominant arm. Raising it really straight in the air and not let it fall down until the dominant elbow comes up. Then tuck it to my chest so the dominant arm can fully swing into contact without overrotation to the side.
It’s vital to master that motion 👍
What a splendid serve right from the beginning ❤🎉
Many thanks 🙏
Great serve tutorial Simon. Comprehensive and to the point. Great stuff👍
Many thanks Grant 🙏 Are there any lessons/videos you’d like to see in the coming months?
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial a comprehensive forehand video. Also a video of the technique required to hit angles. Also a video on how to overcome nerves in matches would be great too👍
You're a stellar teacher, Simon! Thank you! 🎾
Many thanks for the support 🙏 Are there any lessons you’d like to see in the future?
Info on toss really helpful I am currently working on three things from your videos bend knees, toss ball not too high, pronate. All in a reasonably smooth quickish motion. Thanks 🙏🏼
One of the best one !
Many thanks 🙏
Nice tips, Simon. Keep up the good work. Now to going out there and trying it out. Will keep you posted😁
A big bow of gratitude. You’re the best of the best at helping me figure out the serve
Many thanks for the kind words 🙏 Are there any lessons you would like to see in the near future?
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial 1. how to combat under arm serves would be awesome as I’m using them against opponents and they’re really working for me. I wish to know their options when I do it and so on. Many thanks!
Thanks for your video 🙏 I am a french tennis player and your video is very interesting and understanding 👍👍
Many thanks 🙏
Best explanation so far! Thank you.
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Again, amazing content. Will give it a go this week! I've improved my tennis game massively solely on your videos (started playing 3 months ago at 31 yo). Many thanks.
Many thanks 🙏 and Good luck with the improvements
Great video ! Thanks Simon.
Many thanks 🙏 Are there any lessons you would like to see in the near future?
Amazing lesson
Such a good job man!
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Brilliant, thanks Simon
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I think that move from Alcaraz...on the trophy position...with the palm to the head...get's the supination earlier. For more consistency. With leads to a more calm, less mental toll take. Think fh and an earlier slot (lag), more consistency. Later lag, more power. Brilliant video Simon. One of the best on the serve. Cheers from Ecuador.
Many thanks 🙏
Thank you for the lesson . It is brief and to the point Simon. If you have time , i would love to know from you about the right physical fitness and training that i should have and be doing which is going to be most suited for playing tennis at highest level.
Thanks so much I can see my improvements in my serve also my name is Simon too! I am a lefthanded orange ball player
Really appreciate about the supination and pronation. This helps a lot for me to recognize why my serve was not smooth.
Good luck with the improvements 👍
Great tutorial! 🙏🏼
Many thanks 🙏
Awesome tutorial coach. One little detsiled that uou could include would be how to bench the knees
Great video!!!
Good one!!
You are a good coach
Many thanks for the kind words
Best explanation I've watched. Please do a video about hitting good volleys.
Very clear, thanks for teaching
Thanks for watching
Thank you, ive been looking for a video talking about proper serve techniques. I kept messing up my shoulder not knowing why after not playing for so long. Im going to apply these techniques and await the results
What a great tutorial again. I am now in my3rd year of tennis and focussing on the serve. I've played a tournament last weekend and my serve is my weak spot. Sometimes I hit an ace but that is often more luck than well served. I recognise the admiring my serve and see where it ends in stead of focussing on the bigger plan. A buddy told me to just take some time and a lots of balls to practice on the serve. We do the serve often in the trainings that we do but that is only a 5minutes exercise. These 5steps will help me a lot to understand how to do it. I assume for a lefty it is the same but of course the other way around?
Thank you Simon 🙂❤️
My pleasure 🙏
Excellent video. Thanks.
Thank you 🙏 Any lessons you’d like to see in the coming months?
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial perhaps a video on strategies that are effective but easy enough for intermediate recreational players? Thank you.
Perfect tutorial. Thank you so much.
Thanks for the support
Great. I learnt a lot
My pleasure 🙏
thanks a lot..🤩🤩🤩
Great analysis going to try remember to release my ball toss more from the fingers now i know why it always comes out with backspin and why its either too far forward or behind my head.
Good luck with the improvements 🙏
Best serve video ever! Thank you!!
Many thanks 🙏
Thanks for the really god and short overview for a good serve.
Many thanks 🙏
Thanks for this serve tutorial. Explanations are simple and detailed. Btw, I have a question, in holding the racquet when you serve, should the index and middle fingers have space between them or should they be adjacent to each other?
I always prefer having a bit of space between them as you then have more contact with the grip. But, you can test out both methods and see what suits you more
I was serving godly for a few days, then I got injured and I'm struggling to find that serve again. On the positive this video is always here for me to watch!
Vamos 💪
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial Thanks once again, the serves are back 💪 🐐 🎾
great break down of the components! my coach has been telling me to flick with my wrist instead of my arm and it’s making my serve worse so this was helpful! maybe show examples of women players too though? :)
This is great service tips. Thanks
Many thanks 🙏
Thanks a lot !
I hope it helps your improvements
Definitely! Thank you again.
The best video for tennis serve. Apart from the fact that Simon knows very well the serve technique, he has high ability of teaching and communicative competence, while the video is very well structured, showing examples helping to understand each serve step.
Great lesson, thanks. Going from pronation to finishing at my left hip is going to be a challenge because it doesn't seem like a natural physical progression. I'll try your way when hitting flat or with less side-spin, to try to get more pace. But when I slice the ball sideways so that it arcs to the sideline in the deuce court and then bounces further away from the receiver, I doubt I'll be using it. You sound South African. If so, are you in KZN or near the Garden Route? Cheers from Oregon, USA.
Great explanation!
Many thanks 🙏
Great! Finally make it clear how to serve better. Can I forward this to spread it widely？
Absolutely 👍 Under the video there is a share button and you can send it through many channels 🙏
Supervideo thanks 👍👍
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What a perfect and complete explanation about the serve, Simon ! Thank you so much
Many thanks 🙏 Are there any lessons you would like to see in the near future?
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial How about when to use top spin forehand and backhands and when to go for flat strokes?
Thanks
Thanks for watching
Absolutely love your channel mate. Btw if I can ask how tall are you? And how key/limiting is height in a serve?
Many thanks 🙏 I’m 185cm I think height is of course important on the serve, but there are always ways to improve a serve regardless of height. Of course the taller you are, the easier it is
I always thought that snapping the wrist was the way to get power! Thank you so much for your video! …I need more practice ahah
My pleasure, good luck with the improvements
Another great video. Thank you. I've been following TTT for several years now and it really helped my game. I attended the in-person training several years ago in NYC before the pandemic which was fabulous. Will TTT have another clinic soon? e.g. Indian Wells?
Many thanks for the support, it was a pleasure teaching you in NYC. We are finalising our NYC US Open camp for 2024 now and it should be done in the next week or so. Are you on our email list?
perfect explanation
Many thanks 🙏
Guys that's a great tutorial as is all of your material. Just one little remark: what you are doing is analyzing and reconstructing the proper serve expected in a rather experienced level. A beginner, or a little above that such as myself, who is trying to build a serve is likely not to be helped by this because there is a lot he has to achieve yet in order to apply these instructions. What I could really make use of is a similar breaking down and subsequent reconstruction of a simple serve that will get the ball through via a proper hit but without the whole range of motion, the jump etc. It seems to me that the whole stuff is just too complicated to take into account when you don't already know it!
We built an entire course on mastering the serve which is designed to help players go from A to Z. Using simple to follow progressions to help you master each step: www.top-tennis-training.com/product/serve-revolution/
It is a great tutorial! I have a question to ask, what's the exact moment to hit the ball, since every time I tried to hit the ball at the apex, but failed with that the ball was outside the service box.
Experiment with the toss/hit timing. See what happens when you let it drop slightly, or adjust the racket angle to eradicate the errors
We need a new video about 1 - handed backhand, hopefully you will make it soon👍
Already filmed, coming soon in this series 👍
How is motion speed during serve? Expecting to start slowly (toss+swing) and finish (hit) as fast as I can?
It depends on your motion, is it a full swing, abbreviated? Do you toss the ball high, do you have a pause? Ideally it’s medium to start and builds up to fast from the power position
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This is an amazing explanation, thank you. Just a bit of information from a former baseball player- throwing with pronation like that is NOT how to throw a baseball (except for a screwball), and repeated throwing like that is very likely to tear your UCL. Fastballs are thrown by snapping the wrist, and most other pitches are thrown by going from neutral wrist position to supinated, in various degrees (usually combined with a snap of the wrist). TL;DR: Snapping your wrist: good for throwing balls, bad for serving balls!
That’s very interesting, as the latest lesson we just released a few days ago, I was searching for slow motion footage of baseball throws and found a few great clips were they all used supination into pronation with some wrist flexion. So you snap the wrist in general when throwing the ball? Is that for the spin created or is there another reason?
There is a type of pitch , the screwball, that is what's being shown in the footage you're referencing, it's just not something that hardly anyone throws anymore. For a fastball, the snapping of the wrist helps to create backspin which is what you want to create movement in a fastball, Offspeed pitches (think slider, curveball) use supination /wrist snap to enact a different type of spin to allow those pitches to move. But unless you are a pitcher throwing offspeed pitches, throwing a baseball will consist of a neutral grip/wrist snap.@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial Thanks again for the great videos!
It looks like there is more going on with the shoulders than merely tilting… are you also turning the upper body such that the shoulder are more rotated than the hips?
Absolutely. Coil with the upper body whilst stretching the left side
How about the weight transfer from the legs? The push is from the leg on the back to the front one ?
It depends on your stance. Pinpoint vs platform. Covered here: kzhead.info/sun/oNyrh7p7kWmGf4E/bejne.htmlfeature=shared
One other comment I can throw a flatish stone a long way into the sea as I pronate and also spin the stone and the throw is like a serve as I am throwing it high to go further with the spin and the power position is as for the serve. Just need to learn to transfer the power into a powerful consistent serve with minimum strain on body.
Hello, where do you take videos of pro players from? I’m starting my channel an can’t find anything either free or for sale….
I've been snapping my wrist because I never really knew about what pronation really was Serving around high 80's, my wrist is currently not appreciating it
🤣 it definitely won’t appreciate that action
Dont really get the supination to pronation wrist movement - would need to see it frame by frame - even your slow motion is too quick to see what the wrist is doing.
This might help - m.kzhead.info/sun/q7WBZZV5oYCXraM/bejne.html
My first serve is very good, not be cocky but I get so many free points because of it, but my second serve.. dear god, it's good in practice, but horrible in matches! Think it's mental, I don't use my legs, swing is to slow, I say mental because, I just not seem to get it in my head that I still hit it hard, but different..
Stay tuned 👍 more serve lessons coming soon
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Serena Williams has the most beautiful, fluid and consistent serve with ideal technic!!
Wimbledon champion Pat Cash teaches service on you tube, I quote " you toss the ball up and give it a whack" simple enough.
He also said to drop your head before making contact on the serve…
Where is the free guide?
Here is the link - www.top-tennis-training.com/serve-guide/
Don’t like that new abbreviated serve. Good video tho 😂
More power ✅ More disguise ✅ Easier to replicate throughout a tournament. Thanks for watching
Simon, I am thinking maybe the abbreviated motion gives one a better chance of getting into the Alcaraz/Goran palm facing the head supination position. What do you think? Do you think you get more supination with the abbreviated motion?
You can get the extra supination with both the full or abbreviated swings. It depends on how you lift the racket and position your palm in the power position
@TopTennisTrainingOfficial thanks for your response. To me, your serve looks more dynamic since you went to the more abbreviated motion
You can’t relate throwing a tennis ball to serving. I’ve been a baseball pitcher for years and it is different mechanics
Taking Federer pose as a thumbnail to show off perfect serve isn’t really what I think of when thinking of the “perfect serve”, while beeing very consistent, Federer is by no means a service ace… plus his style of serving is almost a 100% aimed at outwards spin with very little variation..
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