Tennis Serve Drills | Improve Readiness, Control, Consistency, and Placement

[@IntuitiveTennis]

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[@dmitryprivate6558]

I didn’t know that I use the same approach as Pete Sampras. When I toss the ball, I also don’t know what kind of serve it will be. Or, even if I hit the ball :) Thank you, Nikola!

[@IntuitiveTennis]

😂😂😂 That’s hilarious

[@mikewhocheeseharry5292]

On a windy day or if you’re looking right into the sun when serving, just try to make it in play :-)

[@GRUMO]

I can relate to that. 4 out of 5 times it's a type of serve never described in tennis literature (i.e. it goes nowhere close to where I intended)

[@Tousanx]

Wow coach you are a sniper hitting those cones

[@ikrash5144]

That’s the reason why he is coach

[@LetsBuildThatApp]

Coach nick takes no prisoners, rough

[@steeel]

He wouldn't give a point to his gramma

[@serveyourname5565]

Had I had a coach like him, I would've become a 4.5 player by now.

[@mikemu9897]

Yea I wish I had a coach like him or a buddy to practice like that with

[@jinto217]

MatthiasW T It’s a rating of a tennis player based on there matches. There are a lot of different ratings but the common ones are UTR, NTRP, and USTA.

[@lukegibbs3142]

you do, he's ur online coach

[@TheRomeogigli]

I am an advanced player, but I like the way you teach and inform.. it's clear, constructive and fun ! and you have an assertive voice, which is good to motivate your pupils.. and it looks like you were or are a really good player, not a noob..

[@bennineo6372]

you made tennis practice so much more fun ...

[@sonnydaybridger1577]

Wow...love your serve style...clean and simple

[@martinestassen3302]

What a sweet tennis teacher.

[@brucety1949]

Also love 10 ball serve drill too

[@thomasmedeiros5722]

I like that your videos show players how they can practice. My favorite two lessons that you presented in this video moving the service to different locations and disguise. So many players tend to hit the serve in the same location especially on the second serve. If you’re returning serve watch for the placement of the toss to tell what type of serve or possibly what direction it may go. I use to play against a guy that always moved the ball and racquet forward and back in a double pump before he hit a flat serve up,the middle but not when he was hitting a kick or slice. His ball placement was different for each serve. He hit great serves but had no disguise. I use to against a guy who hit great returns if he was able to move sideways but had difficulty with serves into his body. I would choose my placement according to the service score. Players can improve if they pay attention to things like this.

[@ifeanyiikpegbu6465]

Omg, this is crazy! Enjoyed every bit of it

[@patelfamily3202]

You have great way of teaching..you are energetic, involved and busy on court.. impressive

[@lordbyron3603]

Great drills!! And Excellent coach. Ive always liked your approach to teaching. You hit the yellow immediately...WOW! And the red one!! The last stop was fun to watch. { I’ll try these today... thanks.}.

[@Hanamichi6666]

your serves are terrific! really impressive

[@mrfofung]

Nailed it on his first serve

[@senfumastevens3076]

Hi brother Chris hope you are doing well and I call you upon to stand with our music school foundation. Glory be to God

[@williamvergara]

this looks real fun.

[@senfumastevens3076]

Hi Mr William hope you are doing well and I call you upon to get involved in our music school foundation.

[@brucety1949]

I love the disguise drill 👍🏿👍🏿

[@CoachDaisha]

I like the 10 ball drill serving game

[@matheusdiazz]

Thanks for the vid, im going to practice some and put the link of the video here later if you want to see :)

[@parv100]

Fantastic drills. A great fun way to improve skill level.

[@deenugent473]

Awesome serve coach!

[@bryanwu9215]

Great video and demonstration, I can easily imitate those drills. Thank you, Nikola!

[@ishitamorey6585]

This is so satisfying to watch!

[@LeihKauf]

Man this is perfect!! I will steal all of your ideas and will tell my students that I have some new great ideas and drills Hahahahaha no, don‘t worry, all my students know how good and inspiring your work is 😎👍💪

[@IntuitiveTennis]

😂😂 It’s not stealing when I’m giving it away for free. Thank you Leih 💪💪

[@mariumshahid7879]

Tbh you are the best coach 👍👍 kindly make a video on hand stability

[@kevinhdo90]

Wish I could have Nick as a coach :3

[@arturoalmaraz5520]

Muy buen entrenamiento, muy organizado, activo y divertido

[@borisgolubovic5914]

Nice drills Nick,and nice Assistant Coach too👌👌🥰

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Hvala Boris I Ema se isto zahvaljuje

[@borisgolubovic5914]

@@IntuitiveTennis Thanks hvala nazad🙏❤️

[@senfumastevens3076]

Hi Boris hope you are doing well and I call you upon to stand with our music school foundation. Glory be to God

[@2.hyeon_tak.17]

I'll make sure to watch your videos more for me to be able to play tennis easily in the near future!

[@이화승-n5y]

Gooood practice

[@pedrocastro6870]

Great video loved it keep up the good work

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Pedro my friend thank you 🙏 🤜🤛

[@Phoniq]

Yes! More great ideas! I will use them. Thanks!

[@TennisIsHere]

*Good job! Thank's*

[@lwei9880]

Great video, very useful!

[@javadaliali9988]

Very useful 👍

[@errajota]

wow! What a video!

[@gogogo96]

this so much fun coach, love it

[@senfumastevens3076]

Hi donell hope you are doing well and I call you upon to stand with our music school foundation. Glory be to God

[@TheLukeguy7]

love this coach, brilliant. Great vids

[@udohanietie1637]

One day you'll be my coach,no doubt 💯💯

[@fingersm]

Sampras disguise drill!!

[@mariodeb]

i like those drills tks

[@Hristian93]

Great content man, I really like the variety of exercises and targets, greeting from Germany!

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Danke

[@jerylmac4776]

Woowww! Very nice!

[@senfumastevens3076]

Hi sister jeryl praise God hope you are doing well and I call you upon to stand with our music school foundation. Glory be to God

[@daryoes]

Men, when he hits the yellow con, it blows mind :🤯. Good job 👏

[@franciscomanrique4979]

Buen entreno !! 👏🏽👏🏼👏

[@Faszination]

Great to see Ema on court, and also great focus since no native language has been uttered 😄. That ten ball drill though, perfect!

[@sentotdwihendriyono9649]

Thank's👍

[@DonYang73]

Good stuff!

[@TwinFlameSpyrit-Italiano]

So cute you two!! And great content of course. Thank you! 😊💞

[@senfumastevens3076]

Hi Twin hope you are doing well and I call you upon to stand with our music school foundation. Glory be to God.

[@Rafa-kz3bz]

Amazing, you have a top10 serve, better than rafa or nishikori, great job!

[@IntuitiveTennis]

I don’t know about that 😂. Those guys serve pretty big especially Rafa, but they hit spots rather than blasting. Different game.

[@henryhoward855]

Once again, a great video. Ema does not get her right foot in behind her left foot on the pin point serve. Has it slightly to the right. Opens her up a bit much.

[@MrXltennis]

How are you!?did you from Macedonia!?Good video!!!.thanks

[@IntuitiveTennis]

We met at a tournament in Pemboke Pines. Stefan played he was only 13 I think. I’m from Croatia

[@AyyyCoco]

Looks fun

[@ap7498]

Good stuff!! Thank you! PS- I’m going to be covering your 1st serve flat/wide on big points in the Ad Court 😅

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Not fair 😂

[@Crypticekekisgoated]

🤣🤣 her reaction 4:10

[@ilyesabderrezak2547]

i have never played tennis before, one day i'll start practicing it, and be among the best 10 in the world, somehow i can feel it

[@alifh2617]

1:22 Agreed. I trained with Peter Fischer.

[@torrubirubi]

By the way, Jimmy Connors told in his autobiography that he did similar “last second” drills with his mother, but I don’t remember if when working with the serve or background shots.

[@torrubirubi]

Disguise drill is the proper term...

[@ssenssel]

The famous Sampras serve drill is ideal if you have a toss parallel to the base line. If I try to do it with 45º angle toss I'm gonna hurt myself.

[@evansuddreth388]

How fast is your serve

[@IntuitiveTennis]

I don’t know Evan, I never played on a court with speed measurements.

[@LaBambaCL]

your wife's serves have improved a lot!

[@IntuitiveTennis]

That’s very funny LaBamba 😂😂

[@LaBambaCL]

@@IntuitiveTennis just 6 months ago ... kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnjbfZppdqtnsJY

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Dude I thought you were joking. First of all it’s impossible to go from 3.0 NTRP to WTA level and especially in 6 months 😂😂. And secondly these are two separate women and Ema is married (not to me). I still think you are joking 😂😂

[@daftroses]

Nikola your serve is so big

[@pl4851]

I have decent first serve but very inconsistent, I don't hit long much but i hit the net mostly. I realized my ball position in air on the toss is inconsistent which could be one of many reasons. Your last drill will be very good to practice Can you suggest something to fix it in general?

[@JimEdmiston]

During the ten ball drill challenge, I'm surprised both of you bounced the balls so many times. Precious seconds! We should be taught not to bounce the ball. Keeps the opponent off-guard.

[@senfumastevens3076]

Hi brother Jim hope you are doing well and I call you upon to stand with our music school foundation

[@CoVaTennis]

That ten ball drill looks tiring!? Was gonna have my kids class try it today... but then saw how exhausting it’d be for them 🤣

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Great drill for kids, they love it

[@CoVaTennis]

@@IntuitiveTennis yea I thought twice.. doing it next class! 💪🏽

[@2.hyeon_tak.17]

I want to play tennis so bad but I can't because of the corona and we don't have tennis courts near our house, we have one at school but I'm only 14 years old, I have to be in 2nd or 3rd grade to be able to play tennis in the court-

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Be patient You’ll be out there soon 💪

[@2.hyeon_tak.17]

I now have a new idol-

[@LaBambaCL]

5:20 you picked the right side

[@leandronovaesbarbosa]

hey, nice video, Which Video Editor are you using? thx

[@pauljohnston]

Nick - would you say that you were a competitive guy? :-)

[@alexbrands11]

А Колян то ПОДКИДУШНИК тот ещё!!🤣🌺🤣Видно что сам учился!!

[@ethandiaz4892]

Can you teach me how to be great I'm a 9 year old player in the philipines

[@bryceduncan1865]

Alexander Balog chill

[@torrubirubi]

Great drills, thanks! Guys, you shouldn’t bounce the ball in the last drill! I saw once Cilic making a drill where his former coach Ivanisevic gave him a ball immediately after a service, and Cilic had to jump back and serve again, something like 10 times. No rituals allowed of course. Nadal would probably profit from such drills. I like how Sampras did in his ritual, bouncing only once. I do the same. However, everyone should realise that he can serve also without any ritual. Something about the drill where the coach tell you in the last second how to serve. Agassi was doing exactly like this in the beginning of his career. He said he decided where or how to serve only after throwing the ball. His coach Brad Gilbert could not believe this. He didn’t appreciate the value of such “decision in he last second”: how can the opponent read your service if even you don’t know what you are about to do?

[@솔기-f2j]

what is name of ball basket? and where can i buy ?

[@33cucqi4]

Hi,I'm Tazo from Tiktok,do you remember me ?we are friends from Tik tok

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Hi Tazo

[@cuteshorts2966]

Wow

[@frankg846]

ahaha did Ema cheat, dropping one of the three balls left in the basket, this was fun to watch, i was laughing. I loved it when Ema ran to pick up another ball only to realize she missed it and run to the basket instead, good job guyz.

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Thanks Frank, she didn’t cheat. Thought I made the last one

[@stevieu83]

4:10 😆

[@glebz7294]

Racquet abuse 🤣 🌹

[@nicholassaephanh4407]

how tall are you? You're demolishing the ball with ease.

[@IntuitiveTennis]

6’5

[@ssenssel]

@@IntuitiveTennis How tall is Ema?

[@IntuitiveTennis]

5’9

[@tom0176devo]

Only problem with the first drill is the feed is coming from your side of the court, and from the side! This is never going to happen in a match, so it's not realistic. The feed has to be from a relatively similar place to where your serve lands, so you're at least hitting the next shot from a more realistic situation. Besides that this video is great

[@juliusgalvez9081]

Him dobyou recommend using doubpe split step? Or a single split step is enough?

[@IntuitiveTennis]

I’ll get into split step soon

[@juliusgalvez9081]

Thank so much!

[@brunogoncalves2853]

which string are you using?

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Recently kirschbaum super smash orange 🍊 17 G

[@pl4851]

@MatthiasW T any thought about Pro's Pro string? I'll start to use that and seems to be German product i think

[@pl4851]

@MatthiasW T I have tried Kirschbaum in the past, not a big fan (maybe I didn't use the correct one). Though MSV is another one I'm hearing about, will give it a shot if I can get one. I'm getting this PP string: www.pros-pro.com/en/pros-pro-german-polyester-string-hexaspin-200-m-1-25-mm-gold-hexagonal.html I want to get this Multi next for my hybrid. It is cheap for Multi but hoping not to be the worse :) www.pros-pro.com/en/pros-pro-tennis-string-200-m-synthetic-superior-gut-1-32-200-m.html

[@pl4851]

@MatthiasW T I totally understand what you mean. I'm not a great player, but I like to hit fast balls. So I do like to try different strings at different tensions. I have understood quite a lot in the last 2 years after trying different string setups about what I like and what I don't....and finally what suits my hits...oh well....

[@pl4851]

@MatthiasW T I think I've used Spiky, Super Smash, Competition and the Synthetic gut...Actually I did like the Synthetic gut...after those, I didn't even bother getting any Polys

[@kenm5614]

Damn that girls good

[@drbonesshow1]

Your serve could be made more powerful with some simple adjustments based on physics. Sadly, most tennis people find it uncomfortable to get out of their comfort zone: playing a good game of bad tennis. Maybe physics can help. Here is a professor who hits as hard as the pros, but not exactly like the pros with new rackets and techniques based on physics: www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/sports/tennis/don-mueller-rackets.html

[@arjunyeleshwarapu]

2:53 you made a spelling error

[@xxsettingsxx401]

surprise them with an underarm serve

[@jeffharper407]

god she's good

[@philoumars3168]

Canon .....le service..je précise au cas où.....

[@leonarddai4998]

Why its very hard to serve to the ball to the right with continental grip? Its easier to serve the ball to the left because the ball always fly to the left, does anyone have some trouble like me? Or its just me?

[@IntuitiveTennis]

Explanation here 👉 kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3ypmniDmZeMrs0

[@leonarddai4998]

@@IntuitiveTennis thanks nikola

[@baccaratroulettewinninggri1849]

💖💖💖💖💖

[@makefly3305]

Kerber dislikes this video.

[@drbonesshow1]

BTW: Next time Challenge.

[@mahmudulhasan3261]

M

[@EliotMcLellan]

BALL PYRAMID SCHEME

[@calvinlee4741]

Cute student to train, lol

[@TheMichalkorejtko]

did she try to cheat at the end? :D

[@ianmackinlay8925]

Is it easier if you’re eight feet tall? 🤔😂

[@IntuitiveTennis]

😂😂

[@Bikerbeest]

Your movement on the court looks pretty stiff

[@mahmudulhasan3261]

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