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
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