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Alright, now I'd like to talk you about serving and the techniques that go along with serving.
We'll worry about where the ball has to go in the court and I'll give you some court
guidelines later for singles and doubles tennis. But for now, when you see TV and you see a
professional tennis player and the serving the ball, it always looks so fluid and natural.
This is the way it should look to start. You take the ball to the edge of the racket and
just like this. Your knees are up. My right knee is up just a little bit, and then next
thing I would do is toss the ball in the air. I would suggest that you work on tossing the
ball first before even hitting the ball and just catching to where you might be comfortable
of it being a certain level. Next, you want to hit the ball. Now keep in mind in tennis
you can always catch the ball if it's a bad toss or if you're not ready to hit it with
out fault, without an error. A fluid motion looks somewhat like this. Now, I don't know
if that ball was going to go in, but we're focusing on technique right now. A nice fluid
motion. You want to hit the ball more up here as to so that you're coming down towards the
net. Some mistakes I've seen people do in serving is hitting the ball too quick like
this, maybe hitting the ball on a bad toss like that. Now I'm out of balls. Or some people
try to hit just to get it over the net, which isn't so bad to start, but it's that old adage
why learn something the wrong way and practice it the wrong way if you can learn something
the right way and get in just a little more time. And that's serving for me.