How to Hit The Perfect Slice Serve In 3 Steps (with PRONATION)

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In this video, you're going to learn how to start hitting the best slice serves of your life... The kind of slice serve that carves off the court, stretching your opponent out, and giving you easy 1-2 combos that allow you to fly through your service games. And stay tuned until the end to check out our best drills on developing the slice serve!

⏱ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 The Best Slice Serve
0:22 Step 1: Contact Point
2:34 Step 2: The Toss
4:22 Step 3: Swing Path
7:25 Slice Serve Drills
9:25 The Slice Serve Revolution

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[vinh]

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[desklamp]

I think you guys have some of, if not the best, tennis lesson videos on YouTube. You guys have helped elevate my game immensely! Keep up the great work !!

[pjcdm]

Love this channel: the humour, the technical explanations, the demos, ...

[thiagobadin]

i am impressed. You are so good at explaining and i never had this view of the slice serve being almost the same as a forehand slice. +1 subscriber for you

[dandalee]

Dayday, this is the best video I've ever seen on the elusive slice serve pronation. Thank you so much!

[sunglee]

I got this after practicing for 30 minutes, pronate just before hitting the ball after getting the leading edge of racquet to the side of the ball. Best instruction on YouTube

[CGcarmineCG]

Thank you. I can hit pretty good flat and kick serves but not slice. When I saw your comparison with the forehand volée i understood i little bit more. I'm really bad at net so it's a long way. Start practicing this already today to give my game more diversity and take my opponents by surprise. This year I reached my best (National) rank and I want to improve again to make it to the top 10% of my Country.

[colin.r.palmer]

Props for this video, you guys have done a great job at mixing the informative with creative and funny! Definitely will be watching more of your videos!

[janne-mans]

In the old days they made the ball turn back, from the bounce of a slice serve.
So for a rh player, the slice curves to the left, and when bouncing, it kicks back to the right. This particular serve was used to hit to the T-area, making the ball enter the left side of the T, yet ending on the right side of the T.

I think it was especially McEnroe, G Villas and Gerulaitis who used this as well as Borg.

The spin on the ball is reverse to the flight / curve - the curve is produced due to the law of more distance / resistence air is required to travel, that direction an object will move, like the wing design on an airplane.

As the distance over the wing is longer and air thus has to travel longer than the opposite air under the wing, the plane gathers lift.
Likewise turning the far half of the ball to rotate, the resistence and thus time for air to travel across on that side is increased, making the ball go to the side of the shorter air path, as the air on longer path pushes the object towards where less air is being displaced, due to the spin applied.

Yet on impact with the court surface, if not all spin has been brushed of during flight through the air, the remaing spin is still in the direction on the further half, thus to the right.
That type of slice serve produces also more kick bounce from the topspin, whereas the cut slice, due to more backspin drag, will reduce its bounce height

[strongbrain]

For slice serves, there are two types:
(1) side spin plus under spin (without pronation, amateur) and (2) side spin plus top spin (with pronation, pro).

[tomdevo]

Love your hair man, also you're super energetic and insightful. Love your vids keep it up

[bournejason]

Right dose of science and good amount of progression drills equal best videos 👍😄

[henrylove]

Going through the course now. Great work! It's rainy reason here in the Washington state so doing the drills will be a little difficult. I'll try my best!

[roberthaykal]

I enjoy all your videos, fun and informative. Can you please make one about ball toss, and how to achieve consistency?

[laleserpin]

Great videos guys! I love your explaining and drilling style! I also have a question, can you show the wrist action in slow motion, right after the ball contact in this serve type? I have real difficulties in imagining and exercising that wrist movement...Thank you! All the best from Germany! Lale

[MyPajamaman]

This dude is just phenomenal in the way he explains things. I wish I could be taught by him.

[lcervantes]

Good lesson. The clock face method is the best. 8-2 o'clock is my bread&butter serve. Versatile, has curve as well as power opposed to hitting 3 o'clock. Placed well curves across the receiver's body producing a weak return. A 1 o'clock also curves then kicks off the court from the middle of the service box sideline. Are you in SoCal?

[ola-entrepreneur]

Awesome training on tennis slice serves. Very professional video. I had to subscribe for more. I look forward to learning how to improve my tennis from your channel. Great job!

[guillermotrujillo]

You are so good explaining everything thank you I have improve may serving

[Johnstage]

Merry Christmas! Best of health in the New Year! Thank you very much for your great lessons!