It’s The Only Serve I Trust

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preparing to serve

My favorite serve, in terms of reliability, is by far the slice/side-spin serve.

The slice, especially when used on the second serve, offers several advantages:

  • It allows you to keep the ball low, making it difficult for the returner to attack.
  • The spin applied to the ball slows it down in the air, ensuring greater consistency.
  • Additionally, if you decide to move up to the net after serving, the slice makes it challenging for your opponent to return the ball at your feet.

These benefits make the slice serve an excellent choice, not to mention how easy it is to learn and execute.

I strongly recommend trying, learning, or improving your slice serve. To assist you in this process, I have created a video program demonstrating various progression drills. These drills will help you master the slice serve quickly and effectively.

Regardless of whether you are a beginner or an intermediate player, these video drills will teach you the essential techniques for hitting a reliable slice serve in a very short time.

You can find the Slice Serve | Visual Technique Lessons and Progression Drills video course to start honing your slice serve skills.

Cosmin Miholca

Cosmin Miholca

Certified Tennis Coach

Check out my work at WebTennis24 where I share with you my best video tennis lessons, drills and tips for players, coaches and tennis parents.

2 Reasons Why You Shoud SLICE Your Second Serve

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Even as an experienced player, I have had to pay for multiple serves I wouldn’t tactically place right when playing against some of my top juniors.

To not begin the point in a defensive situation, we will be looking at one very important tennis stroke that you should perfect – the second serve.

You just missed your first serve.

While preparing your second serve, you see your opponent stepping inside the baseline, ready to attack. You’re in trouble. Once you land that shot, your opponent will be all over your second serve.


What can you do so that your second serve will not put you in defensive mode?

SLICE IT.

Why slice and not topspin or kick?
For these two simple reasons:

1. Slice (side-spin on the serve) will keep the ball low.
As a result, your opponent will be forced to play the ball by hitting it up, decreasing their chances of putting it away (or attacking it) from a low contact point.

2. The spin will make it harder to control the ball when your opponent returns it.
Especially if you are a doubles player, think about serving and volleying… Would you not prefer to hit a slice so that your opponent would return the ball high and set you for a high volley?
On the other side, if you choose to go for a topspin serve as a second delivery and move up to the net, the returner will attack your high bouncing serve of yours and put it down to your feet.

In conclusion, practice your slice serve as often as you can so that you will see great results when the time comes up to hit a second serve.

 

Cosmin Miholca

Cosmin Miholca

Certified Tennis Coach

Check out my work at WebTennis24 where I share with you my best video tennis lessons, drills and tips for players, coaches and tennis parents.