Andy Roddick Serve / Strategy Quiz Answer

In the previous video I posed the following question: "Why do professional tennis players -- and players of all levels -- lose more points on their second serves vs. their first serves." The responses we got were incredible. Very thoughtful and thought-provoking. The answer I had in mind deals with court positioning, as I explain in this video. A poster named Kevin answered closest to what I had in mind, so he wins Andy Roddick's autograph. Congrats!

[fuzzyyellowballs]

Hmm sorry if there was some confusion. We'll be doing this again in the near future so I'll be clearly next time.

[fuzzyyellowballs]

No vids but I will be there -- in fact just got home from the Tsonga - Isner match!

[fuzzyyellowballs]

Not necessarily. There was no "right answer." There was just a particular answer I was looking for. Lots of people made great and accurate comments / observations about why you lose more points on second serves than first serves.

[RobT]

Thank you for doing this stuff, I hope you land a killer coaching position in the near future, you deserve it.

[habibko]

also the mindset of the recieving player on 1st serve is "defend" and on the second serve is "attack", this plays a part in it as well.

[ChanShuTian]

Who are you?
You are young without a doubt....but you are intelligent enough to make such an is ...., i dare say, beyond the level of professionals or even manager.

[sublimboy]

Good analysis
Are you gonna get videos of the Washington ATP 500 ?

[DexterHolr]

@mtlsteven they're saying that taking into consideration of 1st serves in, 1st serve points won and second serves poits won and doing the math on those 3 percentages. Do the math yourself and see. But I make an argument above about the issue

[scuzzlebutt]

"if you're nadal you're way back there" lol!

[RobertSchmitt]

Damn I thought we were avoiding pace/placement of serve and all directly related points including court positioning....

oh well

[frinxblvs]

get videos of de O2 arena atp masters masters please!

[historianz]

why dun the returner stand inside the baseline on the opponent's 1st serve? seems like a gd idea.

i mean not as close as what michael chang did to ivan lendl in the 1989 RG.

[sushisbomb]

at first when i saw the picture behind you i thought it was ping pong xD

[mtlsteven]

i disagree with the idea that if Andy did second serve like his first serve he would get more point, because if he did some of those second serve would be automatically be double fault. you have take into consideration that the point won, and the serve that's actually "in" are completely different. The math wouldn't be the same.

[DexterHolr]

i dont think tha rob's comment is really accurate.Maybee the math say so, that he would win more points BUT the number 70% 1st serves in is so high because he has the security that when he misses he still has his 2nd serve. If he served his 2nd like his 1st then that number is guaranteed would not be 70% because it would put him in a really tough position mentally where when he misses his really big flat serve he loses the point...

[stav]

I disagree with this idea, second serve has MUCH less pace giving you time to go back...