The Nick Kyrgios Serve Toss Explained (Easy Tennis Tips)

[@2MinuteTennis]

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[@NicolasMarinCudraz]

I started to adapt my serve to gain regularity and reduce shoulder's pain based on Nick's motion and the Hat trick and it's awesome. I now have a better serve after only few months than 25 years ago (I am 45 now)! Thanks a lot Ryan!

[@a2casius]

Great detailed analysis. Much appreciated.

[@vsomashekar3757]

Superb. Slow tossing arm. Swinging time ( less, .64 seconds ), measurement of this fraction of a second by you is excellent. No rotation of the tossed ball

[@kingtrawal]

Your breakdowns are just awesome.

[@specjalistaneurolog9932]

I today's training session I have improved a lot because I saw this film ;)

[@TheProRecplayer]

Thank you again, great job!

[@CT-go1px]

Great review!!! Thank you !

[@christiane785]

I've adopted a low ball toss but I've run into the problem that if I don't swing fast enough then I'm late and net the ball. It happens a lot when I'm tired and or during important points when I'm tenser. Overall the low ball toss is better but it's not a magic bullet solution to service issues in my experience.

[@TheProRecplayer]

Practice the toss and serve at the end of practice - I know Nick is consistent with toss because it’s like basketball - rainbow arch and he hits it right when it goes through the magic hoop in the air

[@christopherpollak7448]

Hey Ryan...excellent analysis... Would you also analyze this video and breakdown Nick's Hitting Arm. Two areas of interest to me...One, The position of Nick's hitting wrist (35-40 seconds). The wrist appears to be bent back. The hitting side of his racket facing, almost touching his back leg...Two...his racket lag...At release point of the ball (around 2:53 seconds), the tip of Nick's racket is pointing at the court. Back to the toss...At contact point, How far into the court is Nick's toss? Thanks...Chris

[@TheProRecplayer]

It has to be a rainbow arch 2 ish… maybe 3? feet from baseline.. he jumps forward from the baseline quite a bit- so much so that on his follow through he uses his left arm to balance him going back - which you shouldn’t do until after contact

[@TheProRecplayer]

This toss this serve wow

[@edwardclark2653]

Kyrgios' serve execution is so rapid because the momentum developed in his legs is transferred and synchronized with the racquet arm movement (high-tech). The majority of conventional tennis players contact the ball long after the momentum transfer from the legs (ground).

[@ron2117]

Hi Ryan. Another great video. When I serve, my racquet faces the sky. I recently changed my grip. When I shadow swing in my Kitchen, it seems to be correct. Could I send this clip to you? Thanks.

[@2MinuteTennis]

If you’re trying to hit flat serves you’ll continue to face your racket to the sky prior to contact. Work on Hitting Sidespin with the edge of the racket leading toward the ball.

[@山田花子-l1s]

Speaking of low toss, do you also like Dolgopolov's serve?

[@Farley__]

Wow.... A name from the past.... Didn't he retire?

[@山田花子-l1s]

Yeah, he finally decided to retire last year. If I separate tennis players into two categories of a) boring, even if winning, and b) fun to watch, dicey in a way, he definitely belongs to the latter. Federer belongs to it and Shapovalov also does. It's a pity that he couldn't play a lot of matches after a couple wrist surgeries.

[@peterpanagopoulos6698]

Really enjoy your tennis tips. But I have to ask, listening to the videos, you sound very familiar. Did you use to voice over for an IT on line training company? You even use the drawn arrows in a similar manner.

[@2MinuteTennis]

Thanks so much. No I never did anything like that. But I appreciate the compliment. 😊

[@BassByTheBay]

Man, I got nervous every time you raised your racquet -- that's a low ceiling! 😊

[@pritesh1369]

Yeah, slow and low toss with no rotation will encourage more racquet head speed and accuracy. The only reason I toss a little higher because require some time to jump

[@willkittwk]

Practice jumping without the ball dry run it till you develop a quicker jump reaction.

[@willkittwk]

We were taught to think of the ball as an egg that you don't want to crack when it hit the ground.

[@twinwankel]

For me, wrist at 45 degrees was the best. When I tried palm up or 0 degrees, it was some stress on the wrist and was not comfortable. When I tried 90 degrees, I could never get the ball to stabilize, it would move in and out of court. 45 is what I notice Fed does and Nick's toss looks a lot like Feds except he just toss 90 degrees to the baseline while Fed is parallel. Though I love the look of Nick's serve, I don't think it's possible to win consistently with it. He is 3-4 feet into the court after the serve and that puts him in a very poor defensive position. Nick gets away with it because he hits such a big serve but later into the match, when he has to hit a lot second serves, that's when positioning in no man's land will kill him. If Nick was born a couple of decades earlier, he would have been a great serve and volley guy. Just look at his doubles result at the AO this year.

[@TheProRecplayer]

Well that’s doesn’t seem to be true- he wins 1st and 2nd serve points at a crazy percentage -

[@TheProRecplayer]

With the toss, wrist etc, I have learned though being a nurse and studying various sorts of asana / movement - look for someone who has your body type. Yes he is tall but he is tall and LANKY( think swim team recruiting/basketball). Elbows, wrists, hands, ankles and feet have so many tiny bones the motion and comfort is wildly different. With Nick he has LONG levers arms/legs. It makes it more length to control and time. Getting a toss like that is essential.

[@monstertrucktennis]

No need to be in a "defensive position" after hitting a Kyrgios serve. To the contrary, being in the forecourt makes it easier to take advantage of any weak returns if by chance the opponent is lucky enough to even touch the serve.

[@ampecsu]

could you take a look at Ian Westermann's backhand and tell us why it's so bad??