One of the strangest serves I’ve ever seen (but it’s an effective one). #tennis #tenniscoach

[@TennisMaster709]

Bro casts a spell before he serves

[@Since91Too]

You stole this comment 💀

[@friendlypickle_2081]

that’s hilarious ur actually so funny and everyone wants to be like you hahahaha

[@TennisMaster709]

@@friendlypickle_2081 I get that a lot

[@alephnull4044]

Funny but stolen

[@fornarnia7569]

Stolennn

[@Thomas-ih3ox]

I've decided to call it 'Squid serve'.

[@user-gq6lv7eo4e]

😂 good name

[@StunnaDroppedYou]

The squid serve already exists so no

[@dfloriza]

It does kind of look like an octopus falling out of a tree 😂

[@abuelb]

🐙 serve.

[@keetin3336]

Good serve. His wrist very like Joe, body motion like Backer.

[@billmurray4206]

Wait til you see how he eats cereal.

[@jonas8993]

XD

[@alexpate8626]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@irgendeinname9256]

?

[@zetristan4525]

Froot loops?

[@iwearLingerie]

With a spoon 🙅‍♀️

[@Bazooona]

Didn't even notice his head tbh. Focused all on that boneless slytherin cobra jutsu. Cool how a pro sees things

[@Vince6323]

What's even more awkward is his tossing arm. It almost goes limp and folds over his head. I used to train myself to turn slightly before the toss, to have my back slightly towards the net, so that I am focused only on the toss, and the ball, and not the court/result of the serve. It's tempting to want to see the result of your serve before it's happened, but his tossing arm and shoulder position, however awkward it may be, prevents that.

[@PrinceDiggie]

Rotfllllllllll

[@jarl3434]

I can imagine his Physiotherapist's legendary facepalm watching him play

[@frankdartagnan2709]

His physio stacking greens, now that squidman comes in every two weeks needing a cartilage replaced.

[@erikthered1719]

He is beating his opponents with laughter 😆

[@danielkarpinsky9721]

Kyrgios and Roddick in one shot

[@kabob21]

Uh no. Kyrgios and Roddick just have abbreviated take backs to get to trophy position. Literally the opposite of this kid’s over exaggerated setup

[@ckYlr]

​@@kabob21holy damn yappathon

[@mostynf]

It’s a bit like those horror films when someone contorts into an alien or a zombie or something.

[@philbofettiArchive]

My man’s gone pray mantis mode

[@Tuzzz94]

Haha somehow this seems totally suiting 😂

[@plasticmollusc]

He forgot to do the same for the volley

[@MidcourtCrisis]

🤭😆😂🤣

[@Charlie_Crown]

Thinking exactly the same thing, after all that 🤣🤣🤣👍

[@ploopy45]

wait till u see his forehand, his name is vlad breazu and he plays for oregon

[@justbeyourself8515]

He's probably gonna twist himself at some point

[@strongbrain3128]

He is making sure all main muscles are stretched for every serve.

[@cesarfernandezlopez5063]

Free style, exorcist mode ...😂😂😂 ❤🎾

[@claudiow1129]

I literally laughed loud with this one

[@chrispasson1940]

Me too

[@warriorson7979]

The serve is actually normal....he just does a bunch of weird unnecessary things before he serves...🤔😒

[@Piotr_Szyba]

Jokes aside - yes. Guess he simply can'tvconnect with his body properly without some weird ad-moves.

[@donaldbraugh2314]

Normal to me is the Stanford Uni VHS series in the '80s called SyberVision, which used computer-animated technology along with Stan Smith's serve on replay mode to get the motion in the viewer's mind

[@simoneastwood3779]

Simplicity is beautiful and that certainly ain't! 😂

[@mikewhocheeseharry5292]

Not only beautiful, but efficient. No need to use more energy than needed to produce maximum results, especially if you’re playing a match in the hot sun and it can go on 2 hours.

[@funkyguy99]

There is beauty in ugliness! 😂

[@transklutz]

Problem is, he doesn't get as much effect on the ball as he would like with the extreme setup, he defeats his preparation by striking it ordinarily.

[@blackspiderman1887]

​@@funkyguy99such a beautiful ugly comment

[@toncione]

Andy Roddick imitation serve!

[@Batwam0]

I was thinking the same seeing Andy serve in a recent video. It’s not too far off to be honest

[@wisanu99]

Yup, so agree. The wrist cocking, the way he use his body against his arm to control the toss. Same exact thing as Roddick. But times 2? or times a 100, who knows. I call it chicken serve (with the racket being the beak pecking at the ground)

[@emmettebramble10]

To the extreme degree

[@Joe-rk9uy]

Thats a shit imitation then

[@SirJoseph54]

Andy Roddick caricature serve

[@ReallyOldDog]

I think he's trying to imitate Andy Roddick.

[@suckvip1103]

Q: Who is your tennis idol? Vlad: I grew up watching Federer, but his style is difficult to copy, so I modelled my game after Stephen Hawking

[@corentin2094]

Andy Roddick*

[@jfr1995]

Already seen this joke

[@NexPro-performancetennis]

You don’t need to copy. If u copy you don’t have your own style

[@RLstavista]

Service action looks like an exotic bird dancing trying to attract a mate

[@ImKioto97]

When you're watching an anime fight scene and you hit pause in the worst frame possible:

[@bighoss8793]

That serve is ridiculous.

[@hotarobin1]

I like that Mouratoglou never actually said that it doesn't work or that it needs fixing, he just says that it's strange to him..

[@dthorne4602]

He gets real deep into his flow...deep as hell.

[@azul1964]

That's what she said in overflow

[@azul1964]

That's what she said in overflow

[@azul1964]

That's what she said in overflow

[@chrisb8698]

Man took "twist serve" to a whole nother level

[@beetee9981]

Nice music choice. AIR is great

[@angeloromualdez9957]

Moon safari what an album

[@tennisace40]

His opponent is mesmerized!

[@commondirtbagz7130]

He’s gonna get a back injury

[@kylen6430]

Probably not. He’s done it so much his body is accustomed to it.

[@RR-uh9ys]

Fantastic song

[@soresumakashi]

In case anyone is looking: It's La femme d'argent by the band Air.

[@teniscoraisdepontanegra]

This move is to confuse the receiver LOL! Makes your brain spin !

[@niceguy1774]

That serve makes me feel confident that I know what sort of parents he had growing up.

[@rolfackeret828]

Look at John Mac Enroe He was looking backwards too.

[@RLstavista]

Coaches must've hated coaching this kid growing up

[@Didymus1984]

The Elaine Dance of tennis serves.

[@Blorbifink]

Great song choice

[@isawk2003]

Aliens do truly live amongst us

[@blank.9301]

Table tennis serve on a tennis court

[@kooibono]

Good point

[@chrishumphries7489]

Ostrich form. He’s just incorporating a spirit animal into the serve.

[@mordecaaai]

Amazing. Looks very similar to tomahawk serve in table tennis. A lot of sidespin.

[@mrlalalaelmo7454]

Moon safari

[@MizJilly]

It's a little John McEnroe, a little Andy Roddick, and full college tuition for a chiropractor's three kids.

[@John64125]

Pretty good serve though. Accurate and a lot of spin. Guy looks a good player.

[@lebbeus]

It’s called the “Zombie serve”

[@v205]

Risking time violation there😂

[@TimelyAdventure]

He is a tennis time traveler. Future humans have less joints to block their slithering

[@MrAramian]

I think, he serves with a twist of his hip, perhaps adding a lot if spun to his serve.

[@zanido9073]

For the actual serving part he doesn't look that weird, all the windup stuff is just ceremony, doesn't actually affect the shot at all.

[@arindamghatak]

This serve action probably keeps the opponent guessing on whether he's going wide or down the T.

[@ReTracer]

I don’t think he knows if he’s going wide or down the T

[@arindamghatak]

@@ReTracer 😀

[@Benbeezy_]

@@ReTracer He has supposedly beaten someone in the top 500 of ATP, he definitely knows where he is going. It is shocking that this serve form is what felt natural to him though! Also he is ranked 1338 in the world

[@GodSpeed91]

@@ReTracer lmao

[@DoctorStrange01]

Bro is serving like he likes to spend some extra time in the showers after the match 😂

[@RaphaClassic]

Do not forget to appreciate the tossing arm motion :D

[@liamkingsbury7438]

Lowkey kind of zesty 💀

[@ismailedoomun8006]

Highkey

[@Tennisisreallyfun]

I don’t understand, what does that mean?

[@liamkingsbury7438]

@@Tennisisreallyfun I’m just gonna be straight up (no pun intended); it means it seems gay

[@Tennisisreallyfun]

@@liamkingsbury7438 No, I appreciate that actually because I genuinely don’t know the term😂 I mean, I don’t see it (just looks like a whacky serve to me), but thanks for the explanation😉

[@randompianist8359]

so fruity and completely unnecessary lol

[@markovvuk1718]

Viktor Troicki had a similar serve and he served pretty good.

[@michaelmcwilliams4705]

John McEnroe did the same. His back faced his opponent as he did his ball toss which gave him extreme spin on the serve.

[@PhiveIncognito]

A serve if Roddick and McEnroe’s serve had a baby

[@heroofcomments8956]

That is Andy Roddick octopus serve 😂

[@rons6060]

“When he tosses the ball, he’s looking backwards” 😂😂😂 I died laughing

[@whyaskwhy000]

“I’ve never seen anything like this in my life”-Patrick slips and tells us how he really feels

[@flexor212000]

The "I just hit my head super hard and now my body moves like this" serve

[@briang5389]

I appreciate this analysis because you’re right. Casual fans just poke at the windup but that bendy dance he does at the beginning isn’t what’s strange here because that’s inconsequential 😅

[@alexsheets9085]

love that you used air for the background music

[@bigrobsydney]

Yeah, "Don't try this at home, kids."

[@thalanoth]

Looks like a ping pong player got told there were bigger paddles lol

[@kylen6430]

This kind of reminds me of a baseball pitcher. They will often keep the ball behind them for as long as possible to help hide the pitch grip and make it harder to pick up on the pitch. Maybe this player thinks that by doing it this way, it will make it harder to pick up on where he is aiming the serve

[@WhiskeyNixon]

I thought we were watching Special Olympics, at first.

[@silvesta5027]

You know this guy is French when he’s playing Air

[@ernesto12]

He was imitating a ping pong professional service

[@regularmouse4230]

The best part is how amazing of a player he is. He’s a 12.5 utr starter a d1 college team. Says a lot to all the social media warriors out there

[@donquixote...]

It called having a kinesthetic awareness, combined with a synchronized wind up.

[@chrism3790]

If Quasimodo played tennis

[@rroberts2023]

Andy Roddick serves like this at the beginning but his striking is totally different.

[@PerformanceAthleticsClub]

La tête vers l'arrière c'est la recherche d'un levier supplémentaire pour gagner en puissance au détriment du système proprioceptif (vision sur le terrain) - Il reussi grâce à celà à mettre en tension l'ensemble des chaînes musculaires entre les membres supérieurs et inférieurs et de bénéficier d'une meilleure élasticité. C'est bien entendu une manière de faire très personnelle mais qui fonctionne pour lui.

[@dewnithjayasingha330]

Bros trying to expose himself

[@NicolasSauveur]

Not only Roddick's serve. His volley too.

[@Powerpro78k]

The zesty serve

[@CASantos]

Me when they tell me my crush is in the audience & to act normal:

[@DanTuber]

I'd get a sore back if i served like that

[@asd5139]

He really is SERVIng 💅💅💅

[@yonaeb]

The cerebral palsy serve

[@reilici379]

Perfect song choice for this short

[@quayinlock]

I thought it was Andy Roddick for a hot minute

[@AndrewLane-pm2ro]

Yep, that's officially strange.

[@geminiifilms6768]

Just casually dropping Moon Safari on a tennis clip.

[@Phuture33]

He just holds his racket like a ping pong paddle… bringing his table style to the court!

[@tusharjawane9056]

Pov: you saw craig Kimbrel playing tennis

[@FerrariCarr]

When I first started learning tennis in high school, I had this video game for the PS2 called “Hard Hitter Tennis”, and one of the characters had a serve very similar to this. 😂 When I was learning and developing my serve, I tried emulating each different character’s serve to see if any of them felt comfortable to me, and the character with the funky serve was actually pretty effective. That’s not how I ended up serving in the long run, but every once in a while I’d break out that weird serve just as a risk and have actually aced a few opponents with it.

[@mach5406]

Love the music. Kudos

[@SeanChitty84]

The amount of torque generated is key

[@gsithdogowns]

Bro serves like someone described Rodricks serve to him but has never seen it before.

[@bernardocabrera8995]

He basically dropped it like it’s hot and did the stanky leg before the serve

[@bzo218]

I'd be pissed losing to him cause I'd feel like he's trolling me every serve

[@dacethejackofhearts7209]

The backhand volley afterwards is much worse

[@scrumpymanjack]

Looks like he's having an "episode".

[@michaelthomas366]

His coach should never be allowed to teach the service motion again!

[@JJ-lw8to]

스포츠는 사람이하는 표현중에 가장 아름다운 모습인데. 이선수는 더 아름다움을 추구하는구나. 전 세계 시청자들이여 편견을 버리자.

[@bolghorn]

He probably created a style 😂

[@adorsey3149]

Gotta love the music (Air) though.

[@BreeZieDoesiT]

Bros living in diablo4 before he serves

[@Benbeezy_]

This is crazy, because a month ago I saw a video of this guy playing singles and sent a picture of the cover photo to that video (which was the start of this guys serve form) to two of my tennis buddies with this exact comment " I know he would destroy us but good god look at that serve form". I feel like this guy stole my thunder

[@diegosilvachapela582]

Yes, the whole preparation is really weird, but the end of the process, reminds me a lot Andy Roddick's serve. And it's really difficult to read his serve, how to know where is he going to serve ?

[@aussie1461]

he’s a goat at university of oregon, one of the best players there

[@AmberDoodle_]

my man got that ping pong ah serve