The Ultimate Guide to Tennis Serve Stances | Pin Point + Platform & Variations

In today's video, I present the ultimate guide to tennis serve stances by showing variations within pin-point and platform styles.

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[IntuitiveTennis]

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[KMPIN]

Watching your videos gave me the confidence to go sign up at my local tennis club, thank you so much!!

[Fatonzzz]

I have been learning tennis and have been hitting hundreds of serves with a pinpoint stance. Recently decided to try a platform stance thinking “More stable, less moving parts, more simple, more repeatable”. Then two days ago in a friendly match, during my serve, I felt my right knee twist with an audible “pop”, then pain and couldn’t put weight on it. X-Ray yesterday, ultrasound this morning. Thought I was going to be jacked up for a few months but today it is already 10 times better. Could probably even play pickleball right now. Needless to say I’m going back to the pinpoint stance ha ha.

[gotfragMIMK]

Really, you are on of the best if not the best coach in online coaching and probably you are also good in real. Congratz!

[tennis]

Of course, I will repost your videos for my friends and strangers. You will definitely help them!
And me too.

[Shaunsweeney-Kubach]

Hi Nick, I didn’t realize that my stances has changed over the years, I have a platform stance, and when I make contact with my serve, my feet are together and after the ball leaves my racquet, I am landed inside the court. I didn’t know this, until I seen video of myself. When I was around 18 years old, I used to try to serve like Agassi and Krickstein. I tried to serve smoothly, and it’s funny as I have gotten older, I have learned to totally relax on my serve. Great job on the video Nick, nice to see you playing with my new racquets of choice. Hahe I am happy for you if they are sponsoring you. You deserve a great sponsor my friend.
I think I can win a game off you, if you give me 40 love lead, in every game, and you only get a second serve, plus you have to play blindfolded and use a frying pan. Does sound fair? Hahe great job on the video my friend.

[tranquilr]

How funny, I've been watching your tennis videos for many weeks and only today i realised that i haven't subscribed to it.!!! You're awesome!! Thank you for the videos. They're really helpful.

[tennis]

Thank you very much Nick!
This marathon that you are offering has tremendous support from you.
There is already an opportunity to really comprehend it theoretically and, of course, practically.

[lkepat]

Thanks for the breakdown - detailed but simple! theres so much BS online about things such as serving with the pinpoint with the ONLY acceptable variance of bringing the backfoot behind the front. Keep up good the work!!!

[surfertango]

The right foot angled backwards is just what I need to get the WTA stance working. Thanks🙏🎾👊

[nilsmuller]

Echt gute Videos und viel Wissen über Tennis ❤

[jeremysmith]

K i need you to learn how to ski and do freestyle skiing. This is the kind of technical help I need for jumps and tricks on skis. Thanks :)

[joshualeifer]

Coach: where do you teach to stand relative to middle of baseline for ad & deuce (how far from dash)?

[Sandro_Z]

@IntuitiveTennis actually I'm trying go get rid of my "extreme" lateral platform, as it's very difficult to hit flat bombs, but still it's helping me a lot to have a decent second serve 😕 and a good percentage on first serves...

[surfertango]

TMI dance positions? Rick Macci suggested bringing your right foot into your left and push up. 3rd position. Ask Ana. Also 5th position-rock seems to work as well.

[PaulVoorberg]

Hi Nick, thanks for the video. After an hour of on-court practice and more shadow swing experimentation at home I so far settled on a hybrid between platform and pinpoint. I start with a relatively wide stance, then drag my back foot towards my front foot till they're about shoulder width apart. I don't drag the back foot all the way towards the front foot.

This feels best to me. The initial wide stance works well to create a more dynamic feeling load. Plus the move to shoulder width also gives me some forward momentum. Maintaining some space in between my feet makes the serve feel more stable then a regular pinpoint stance and also makes the kick and slice easier.

Would you say this way of serving is fine? I ask because you don't mention it in any of your videos.

[peterstern]

Very well done! What are your views on the type of service stance that includes a small step forward with the inside leg (front foot), such as performed by Mate Pavic, Borna Gojo or Andy Murray's brother Jamie?
The Colombian doubles player Juan Sebastian Cabal also used to do this step forward before starting the "foot up to pint point motion", and some players that just allude to it are Isner, Söderling and Federer. Federer lifts his front heel slightly before serving and sometimes also did a small movement forward with the front foot, but more in practice or warm up.
Roddick sometimes did the opposite of Federer, starting his toss in platform stance a bit wider than his typical "narrow platform stance" and then moving the front foot back to create his "narrow platform stance", anyway they differ from the other players I've mentioned, since Federer and Roddick serve platform stance, but the others eventually all get to a pinpoint stance.
Actually one more thing that could be interesting for some, Sinner has a "foot up motion" but not to a pinpoint stance, more like "foot up to narrow platfrom" a bit like Opelka, so that is an additional option. Actually Sinner is one of the players that varied his stance the most:
in 2018 Sinner was serving platform stance,
at the end of 2018 starting directly from a pin point stance like Monfils used to do,
in 2019 he had a foot up to pinpoint motion, in 2020 a "foot up to narrow platform stance",
in 2021 he went back to a regular platform stance just before Wimbledon,
and finally now he has a similar stance as in 2020 which looks like a foot up to pinpoint stance but without really bringing the feet close together, they are about 10 or 15 cm apart.
He also changed the rest of the motion (including take back and toss) around pretty much once a year, looks like finally he has found something that works for him.

[PaulVoorberg]

5:16 The 3 recommended stances to experiment with
6:30 Variations in stance on the add and deuce side
7:30 Front foot must be slightly pointed forward

[Ikertxu]

That works for those of us who does not jump on the serve (yet)?

[cyberjonesy]

Hey Nick, I watched the WTA ranked 153 Jessika Ponchet today. When I looked at her technique I was flabergasted just at how awkward it looks. But she did manage to get to a high wta standing with what I can only qualify as a defficient technique. This left me wondering, just how important technique is if you’re just good at sending the ball back on the court. Really curious to know your opinion wether she somehow have good mechanics that Im failing to understand.