Perfect Slice Serve in 3 Steps - Perfect Tennis (Episode 3)

How To Hit The Perfect Slice Serve in 3 Steps - Perfect Tennis (Episode 3)
The slice serve is one of the best ways to start a point in tennis. For a right-handed player, it allows you to open up the court on the deuce side and for the left-handers, it allows you to open up the court on the advantage side.
It's also very effective at jamming players with a body serve.
In this video, Coach Simon of Top Tennis Training will show you how to hit the perfect slice serve in 3 steps.

Step One: The Grip
The continental grip will allow you to keep the racket on edge and carve around the top right side of the ball.

Step Two: The Contact
Try to make contact with the ball at around 1 o'clock for right-handers and 11 o'clock for left handers.
This contact point will help you create the slice but also hit down on the ball slightly to bring the ball down.

Step Three: The Body
Try to imagine throwing your right shoulder into the ball, which will help you uncoil with the upper body and create the perfect alignment of your shoulders to create the short angle.

Video Timeline:
00:00 - Why use the slice serve in tennis?
00:38 - Step One: The Grip
01:40 - Step Two: The Contact
03:50 - Step Three: The Body
06:15 - A Perfect Drill To Develop Your Slice Serve

#tennis #tennisserve #toptennistraining

[nickantoniades]

I like this guy. He presents the videos brilliantly. Thank you.

[step]

Thank you! I’ve been trying to work on this shot for years!! Simple break down of this serve.

[АннаФ-сд]

Thanks coach Simon for another excellent lesson 👍

[roR]

Great instruction for me, I usually have more spin on my slice serve, but no pace, I’ll try hitting at 1 O Clock.

[strongbrain]

This coach actually shows two types of slice serves. Unfortunately, he did not distinguish nor explain these two types: the first type he called carving when toss the ball near 2 o'clock (no pronation with carving), and the second type combining top spin with side spin when toss the ball near 1 o'clock (strong pronation with this type). Most atp pros only do second type.

[mychannel]

Thank you so much for those tips. Top notch content

[RajAadhavan]

very good explanation .thank you so much sir

[aaronstones]

Brilliant video as always.

I love that you address the issue with the 3 o’clock thing. I agree that it has its use for building the slice serve from scratch but as you said, it’s more of a “glide serve” than a slice serve and the last thing you need the ball doing is *trying* to glide long/wide of the service box.

Also that looks like Groth slamming a few serves past Simon there. Is that right?

[DeltoidBeast]

What a great serve you have, Simon. Pleasure to watch. Can you make a video of tennis serve where you break down racket drop and that supinated position of arm before contact? Main source of power on serve is that full pronation which comes from whole arm, starting from shoulder, not just forearm or wrist. Please discuss this.

[harryedwards]

Top notch player and coach ….Thanks for your help Simon ❤

[marianna]

I love your channel. Thank you for posting all these great videos. Do you have a video or tips on what tactic to use when you play and suddenly became tired. I noticed in recreational matches players get tired at different times during the match, which makes them perform bad for a short time and often give another player time to gain back advantage. Kids have this dynamic too. After extreme tiredness the player will recuperate and suddenly start playing well again. More often, it will be too late as another player gained too much advantage. So what are the tips on playing during a few minutes of extreme tiredness?

[hermtm]

Hello Coach Simon,

Could you make a video on how to decide a racket's weight?
How do I find a proper racket weight?

[irfangoksu]

hello, do you have a chance to add Turkish subtitles to your videos?

[hansmuster]

Lots of insights in this video, thanks Simon. The tip you gave about moving the right shoulder into the ball, does this usually only work for flat/slice serves or do you use that technique also for the kick serve?

[benjamins]

Hi coach. Great video. Question, I was practicing my serve couple days ago and my shoulder hurts since then. What am I doing wrong? Yes I have been playing for just couple yrs so I still learning. Thx in advance for your answer

[aliashir]

Now I practiced my kick service a lot (9 months) by watching your lessons and improved a lot. It is time to give effort to slice serve I guess. Thanks for what you are doing The Coach!

[lhiiman]

To keep the racket sideways on impact, does that mean you don't pronate when hitting a slice serve?

[vladimirgetselevich]

Is there difference in how you hit it between Deuce and Add sides? I found that for me it is much easy to hit slice from Deuce side compared to Add for some reason. And also another question, if you want to hit Slice serve as your second serve as well, how do you increase consistency of this type of serve?

[robertzhang]

I find myself having more slice going single hand western grip. Is this a good technique or should I try to stick to continental

[xx-jryt]

Haha what is recently going on with bashing "The Coach" and his teaching methodology :D? Openstancitis, Dominant Eye Bs, and now the 3o clock slice serve haha Love it