Serve Technique Essentials: Timing, Position, and Your Ideal Style

[@romangrekov4690]

Дякую. Як завжди дуже цікаво і зрозуміло. Корти у вас в відео завжди топ!

[@amalik12]

Good advice. As we age, efficient serve motion is lot more useful and easier on body.

[@webbezzy]

I have been changing my serve style ever since watching your videos. It works. Spasibo bolshoy

[@svlagonda7417]

Very useful

[@jackquinnes]

It's not only a question of the length of your service backswing but rather and more poignantly the motion and path the arm and racquet takes in the final stretch of the 'load set-up', that is, in the pre-trophy or pre-throw stage; while Roger has a classic long and fluid backswing he nevertheless brings the forearm and the racquet up the palm and racquet face closed (pointing downwards) and thus from the 'right side' or 'front' of him in similar vein as, say, Djokovic who has a more abbreviated backswing. Roger performs an elegant trademark move during the racket 'take-up' that brings the arm and racquet from the extended position behind him (pointing downwards and "'left"/'"back") back to the front by leading the move with the elbow, so to speak and not letting the hand bypass the horizontal level defined by the elbow position but in the last moment of the motion in the pre-trophy phase. Respectively, Roger delays and mimizes external shoulder rotation until the launch. We call this move the "Fed crank" in our advanced service methodology. It differs from the Thiem/Jarry type of take-up (in which the racquet is brought up straight from the backside its edge leading) not only in stylistic/cosmetic terms but also in certain important fundamental biomechanical aspects. It seems there are two on the fundamental level differing types of throwing motions. And Roger does it the more efficient or 'right' way. Thiem and the rest of the bunch drive the racket to the backdrop with a more active motion while Roger and his followers let the launch up and out do the work via inertia (also gravitation has its say in the fall of the racquet). We conclude that its an index of Rogerian "style" serve if the racquet drops back rather in a half-opened orientation than neatly in a vertical orientation the edge leading. - One more elaboration: The ’frontal’ ascent path and the closed orientation from the horizontal level upwards are not a sufficient requirement for a 'Rogerian' backdrop/serve swing lag motion (we endorse in our service methodology) but it might be a necessary one. That is, it doesn't guarantee the inertial lag phase but it surely makes it possible while the Thiem type take-up makes it much less likely to happen. Since in the latter the racket is moved actively behind the shoulders and so on.

[@dalewotherspoon5903]

Thanks. Can you show how a senior player executes the serve and lands on the left foot please. I seem to land naturally on my right foot.

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