In order to hit fast tennis serves, the hitting arm must move in the optimal biomechanical way. That’s how the muscles inside the body and eventually in the arm will produce the most force with the least amount of effort. In order to achieve that, the edge of the racquet and therefore the edge of the hand must approach the ball for as long as possible until...

If you’re looking to hit fast tennis serves then your wrist must be loose in order to allow the racquet head to move really fast. But if you have been hitting serves for a while with a tight wrist (thinking that you need to hit ball “hard”), then you’ve developed a bad habit that won’t go away just because you read somewhere online that...

The racquet path of a tennis serve if very different to a racquet path of a forehand or a backhand. Applying the same racquet path that you use on groundstrokes to the serve is one of the most common mistakes that rob you of power on the serve. While it seems logical to move the racquet through the ball in a very similar way on all strokes, you’ll see a slow...

Have you every seen a tennis player hitting a really fast serve effortlessly? For most club players the serve is a puzzle that’s hard to crack; in fact the more effort you put in, the less effective the serve is. There must be something else besides “correct” tennis serve technique that generates this effortless power… This is just a sample...

There’s a common mistake that happens when you’re hitting an overhead in tennis and moving backwards – and it’s hitting the ball in the net.   Because you might not play that many overheads in the match, it’s hard to see this pattern. Perhaps you’re aware that you often miss smashes, but you’re not really seeing the pattern...

When you’re working on the accuracy of your shots in tennis—whether it’s your serve, groundstrokes, volleys, or any other stroke—you can apply a simple principle of correcting and adjusting the shots that will lead to the fastest improvement in accuracy. The Difference Between Accuracy And Precision Accuracy and precision are easily confused, but can be...

The reason for a lack of power and speed in your tennis serve is a very common mistake that is made when practicing serves. Whether you’re improving serve technique or power, you always want the serve to go in – in other words, you’re working on placement, too. This doesn’t necessarily mean that there are targets in the service box that...