The Tennis Serve and It's Importance
The tennis serve
The tennis serve is a crucial skill and is used to begin each point in a match (Rutherford 1999). The serve itself can be many players most valuable skill and can control the flow of points and even the match if used effectively. A powerful serve with a high ball speed can give the server a high level of control in the point. It can be intimidating, give you control of the movement and shot selection of your opponent as well as put the receiver in a defensive position from the start of the point(Rutherford, 1999) (Metzler, 2001). This is why in high level tennis breaking serve is extremely vital.
Many different biomechanical principles can be used to improve the technique of a serve to favour power and ball speed. Although everybody is going to have a slightly different service technique, a different racquet, different strings and string tension which may affect the results of a serve, the biomechanical principles discussed in this blog should be able to be applied to the majority of service techniques to improve speed. This blog will look at some of the basic biomechanical principles that can be used to improve speed as well and how they can be applied to improve the speed of my own service technique.
Four stages that will be discussion throughout this blog will be:
1) Ball toss
2) Wind up (to make contact with the ball)
3) Connection
4) Follow through
Note: The youtube clips and pictures used in this blog are of myself.
Many different biomechanical principles can be used to improve the technique of a serve to favour power and ball speed. Although everybody is going to have a slightly different service technique, a different racquet, different strings and string tension which may affect the results of a serve, the biomechanical principles discussed in this blog should be able to be applied to the majority of service techniques to improve speed. This blog will look at some of the basic biomechanical principles that can be used to improve speed as well and how they can be applied to improve the speed of my own service technique.
Four stages that will be discussion throughout this blog will be:
1) Ball toss
2) Wind up (to make contact with the ball)
3) Connection
4) Follow through
Note: The youtube clips and pictures used in this blog are of myself.