subject: Tennis Serve Technique - Play Your Best Tennis [print this page] Tennis is considered to be one of the most challenging sports and whether you are playing this game only on the weekends as a recreational player still entails you to excel the skills and techniques needed for a good tennis match. Serving is said to be one of the most difficult parts of tennis to master, it consists of throwing the ball into the air and hitting it properly to reach the opponent's side of the court. Learning various tennis serve technique is essential to enjoy playing this game to the fullest. Here are some of them.
Technique number one. Determine your maximum hitting zone. You can do this by standing close and facing the fence on a tennis court. Then reach up with your tennis racket to the fence with maximum arm extension and see where the racket touches the fence. This is approximately where your arm and racket should be reaching towards when you hit the ball.
Technique number two. Another important tennis serve technique that you need to know is to get a consistent ball toss once you find your optimum hit zone. This will increase your chances of improving your serve consistency. So when you already know where the ball should be positioned for your optimum hit point, make sure to toss the ball to that point and allow the ball to land in front of you, while taking note of the spot where the ball landed. Now place your racket on the ground where the ball landed and use your ball toss to get the ball to land on the racket.
Technique number three. Practice the back scratch. To do this, as the name implies, you need to start your serve by positioning the racket as if you were scratching the right hand side of your back, assuming that you are right handed. Make sure that the racket tip is pointing towards the floor.
These are just a few basic tennis serve technique that can help you get started in tennis. With consistent practice you will eventually make great serves in this sport.
