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: Be a little off center after your serve.

When you are serving wide to your opponent in order to make him return the ball from the alley on his side of the court, you should get ready for his follow up return by making a bit of a ready-hop just as he begins to wind up to strike the ball. If you stay back along the baseline following your serve, then you should be able to make this ready hop just a few feet away from the center mark on the side of the center mark that is furthest from the ball.

When you serve wide and then follow your serve up to the net, again you should make your ready hop just as he begins to wind up to hit the ball back to you. In this instance, however, you should be in the forecourt area instead, and when you make this ready hop you should be just to the side of the center line that is closest to the ball.

In both of these instances, in the backcourt or right up against the net you are going to want to be just a little bit off center. Though this distance off center is going to be small, as it should never be more than just 2 to 3 feet, it is often going to make all the difference between getting the return and not getting to the return in time.

Tip #2: Follow your serve all the way to the net.

If you are serving well enough that you are preventing your opponent from making any kind of an aggressive return, then you should be following your serve all the way to thte net. This will put you in a position to take advantage of a weaker service return as a result.

When you do end up going to the net, you should stop running and then make a ready hop at the point where your opponent is winding up to make his return swing. You are going to want to get as close as you can to the net position, but you are also going to want to be ready to move the ball when the next shot comes. You should be adjusting the number of steps that you need to take as you go according to how much time you have between the serve that you make and the windup for the opponent's return of the ball.

After a hard and fast serve, you may end up having enough time for two or three steps before your ready hop. Chances are, the return on your opponent's behalf is going to be weak, and then you will be able to deal quite effectively with it.

Originally posted 2009-09-11 03:37:10. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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