When you understand how to produce spin for your 2nd serve, you solve your two basic challenges when serving (#1 getting the ball safely over the top of the net, and then #2, having the ball curve back down safely inside the service line).

And the truth is, the better spin you can produce, “better” meaning a specific direction that the ball is spinning as it leaves your racket and how quickly that spin is rotating, well, you’ll be one very happy tennis player…!

To produce a good tight spin on your 2nd serve, your body position at contact has to be fairly “closed”, meaning that you can’t open your shoulders too early and be facing forward at contact or you won’t be able to generate a spin that can solve your two challenges (over the net and then back into the service box).

Check out the video below to see what I mean…

http://blog.webtennis.net/2008/04/15/2nd-serve-spin–a-crucial-element.aspx

Brent’s downloadable and DVD “The 3 Magic Moves of the Tennis Serve”

    
http://www.webtennis.net/tennis-lessons.htm 

One of the reasons I like to come up to net in singles is to put “pressure” on my opponent and force that player to hit a really good precise passing shot.

As the player about to have to play that passing shot, lots of those players translate their perceived “pressure” into too much tension in their hands, especially their racket handle hand.

And yet, the players who consistently play their passing shots to their specific targets, and not necessarily a sense of having to hit winners, those players have a common element in their pre-swing set up.

They have a sense of calm by not applying tension to their racket handle prior to executing their shot.

Check out the video tip below…

http://blog.webtennis.net/2008/04/15/tennis-passing-shot-technique–again-its-in-the-hands.aspx

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downloadable and DVD lessons at:

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The overhead is an opportunity, not a liability, if you can instantly “find” the lob.

And that means more than just identifying the direction of the lob, but as important, determining the depth of the lob.

And instinctively the way we figure out our opponent’s depth of their lob is to NOT move our feet, but for a moment to go still to try and quiet our eyes to be able to read depth.

That slight hesitation to move back to get into position to play your overhead typically means you won’t be able to really hit an effective overhead and also be able to move back into your net position.

So, with that said, the video tip below will help you instantly move back AND be able to determine a lob’s depth.

It’s all in the hands…

http://blog.webtennis.net/2008/04/12/tennis-overhead–the-key-to-visually-finding-the-lob.aspx

Check out Brent’s Overhead lesson over at:

http://www.webtennis.net/tennis-overhead.htm 

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