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Here are some more useful tennis tips for improving your serving game. If you want to make improvements in your ability to serve, these tips will prove useful.

Tip #1: Serve well enough that you can control the rally.

One of the more popular axioms that has to do with tennis is that you are really only as good as the second serve that you make. If you have a hard and fast first serve, but then you miss a large percentage of them, then you are going to end up serving a lot of second serves during your match. If your second serves or soft or easy to handle, then your opponent is going to most certainly take advantage of them by hitting returns that are attacking.

You may serve in a more effective manner if you discard the typical hard and fast first serve in favor of a slower first serve, even if it means that you will have to five up some of the chance of acing your opponent. When you serve more softly than you normally would, but still serve hard enough that he cannot attack you with his return, you will be in a much better position. Then you will be much more likely to have an easier shot when you attempt your first ground stroke, and if your strokes and your tactics are up to par, then you should be able to control the rally that follows after.

Tip #2: Play one serve tennis to improve your second serve.

If your second serve is currently relatively shaky in nature, or if you are serving a lot of double faults, then this is a serve that you are going to want to practice. If you serve a spin serve or mild twist serve when you serve up the second ball, then you should serve this way when you are practicing. But to make your practice sessions much more realistic, you should agree with a practice partner that you are only going to have one serve as you play. Then play, and pretend with every serve that you have already missed a first serve and now you are serving the second ball.

By limiting yourself to one serve only when you are playing and practicing, you are putting more pressure on yourself during your service. This is going to be a lot like the situation you will face during real play when you have missed a first serve. When you regularly practice one-serve tennis, it will help you get over the fears of missing a second serve during actual tennis play. You will convince yourself that you can get your second serve in, and then you will begin to get a lot more of them during the actual play.

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Originally posted 2009-09-14 03:41:15. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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If you are just introducing yourself to the world of tennis, then this guide is going to walk you through the basics of play, and will put you on the road to truly understanding how to get the most out of the game of tennis.

The Court -

The court that the game of tennis utilizes is 78 feet in length by 27 feet in width and there are a variety of different court surfaces that can be used, including but not limited to hard court surfaces, clay surfaces, carpeted surfaces and grass surfaces. The court is divided widthwise by a net, and the players are required to hit a ball over the net. There are baselines on each of the ends of the court, and serves are taken from the baselines and the ball must cross the net before it bounces. If the ball bounces out, it is considered to be out of bounds and as a result the hitter will lose a point. Each of the sides of the court has two white marks lining it to indicate the true width of the tennis court. Inner lines show the dimensions used for the purpose of singles play, and then outer lines are used to designate the width of the court for doubles play. There is also a short white line that divides the court into boxes known as the service court.

Play -

Tennis is capable of being played in a singles game, where there is one player on each of the sides of the net, or in doubles play, where there are two players in a team on each of the sides of the net. Each of the points is started out with a serve that is taken from behind the court's baseline. The ball has to bounce into the opposite side service court after crossing the net, and the point will continue until one of the players cannot hit the ball back, or if they lob the ball outside of the dimensions of the court. The game of tennis has a really unique scoring system that is unlike any other game, and learning the scoring system is an important part of learning how to play tennis.

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Originally posted 2009-11-11 03:45:01. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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... Continued from More Tennis Tips pt 1.

This is part two in our weekly tennis tips series. Here are some more invaluable tips that will help you improve all aspects of your tennis game.

Now you should draw your racquet back and away from the net and make sure that you are keeping your wrist in this laid back position, and then you should wing your racquet forward several times at the network, trying to make a solid amount of contact between the racquet face and the net.

You should be trying to whack the net using the racquet face in a similar way as if you were beating a rug. During the actual play, your wrist should be looking and feeling the same way that it did during this exercise. In play, however, the ball is oncoming and is not going to stop your racquet in the same way that the net does, meaning that you are more than capable of following through. The force behind your swing and your body action and arm swing toward the net are all going to make your racquet move in a progressive way ahead of your wrist after the ball has contacted. At the critical moment, which is when the ball and the racquet are meeting, your wrist should absolutely be in a firm and a laid back position.

3 - Palm on Top with the Backhand Grip

In order to hit with power with a backhand, you are going to need to be able to use a grip capable of placing your palm almost near the top of the handle. In order for you to achieve this grip you need to hold the racquet by the throat with your left hand and then put it down in the edge down position in front of you. Next, you should grasp the handle using your hitting hand so that the V that is formed between your first finger and your thumb is on the handle's top left narrow plane. The fleshy ends of your last three fingers should be on the handle's bottom left plane. The first knuckle should be nearly atop the handle. The first finger should be spread just slightly away from your middle finger. Finally, your thumb should be wrapped around the racquets handle and it should be resting against the side of your middle finger. If you prefer, on the other hand, the thumb can be slanted in a diagonal manner across the handle's backside.

4 - With Your Backhand, Swing from Wall to Wall

We talked about the wall to wall concept once before. You can use the wall to wall concept again, this time to learn a good swing from the backhand. You should be standing with your back to a wall, one foot away from the wall.

Continued in part 3.

Originally posted 2009-08-26 03:26:33. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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1 - Throw as an outfielder while serving.

You can add a significant amount of power to your serve when you use a throwing motion while hitting the ball. You can swing your hitting arm down and then away from the net before swinging it back and then up in the direction of the top of the rear fence. You should be keeping your palm down almost to the point where it is facing the ground and then keep your elbow up so that it is away from your body while you are swinging your arm back and then up. At this point your elbow should be approximately shoulder high. Your shoulders should be tilting, however, during the point where you toss and then backswing. Your tossing shoulder needs to rise up as you toss, and then your hitting shoulder needs to drop down a bit. Now your elbow should be as high as the hitting shoulder and the upper part of the arm should be parallel with the ground.

Now that your elbow is up and away from your body and now that your palm is facing down, you are going to be in a good position to essentially throw the head of the racquet at the ball, really adding significant power to your serve as a result. The throwing motion should be similar to the one that an outfielder would use in baseball, making like you are throwing the ball to home base from the outfield. This should be an upward throw, in other words, rather than a downward throw or a parallel to the ground throw such as the one that a pitcher might use.

2 - Toss as if from a tripod.

If you are looking to serve consistently, then accurate tossing is vital. Stop tossing from different places so you can use the same swing every time. Serve by holding two balls in a tossing hand, placing one in the tripod that is formed by your first two fingers and your thumb, letting it rest in your hand comfortably. The second ball should be placed in the palm of your hand below the first, using the last two fingers to hold it in place. Toss the first ball by launching it up from this tripod simply by opening the fingers during the upward motion that your tossing arm takes. After a fault, toss the second ball by moving it up to the tripod and launching it just like you did with the first.

Originally posted 2009-09-07 03:30:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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