Thanks John for your fine analysis of Taylor's serve. Taylor's serve is unusual from a lot of servers in that he does not get into a standard trophy stance. Why? As his hitting arm moves up his right side parallel to the baseline after the ball toss, his strings are facing the front and back of the court as he drops the racquet. The standard trophy stance with most servers is the racquet is on edge to front and back of court with the strings facing the sides of the court. So you would not see the strings from behind the server. But note with Taylor we do in fact see the strings of his racquet.. A lot of pros tell us to keep the strings facing down to court with palm side up. I note that Federer has the standard trophy pose and has a open faced racquet drop as he rotates his shoulder. But clearly Taylor is not serving in this manner. I like his serve a lot. It seems to be a simpler motion that puts less stress on the hitting shoulder. . So while servers get their hitting arm in a 90 degree angle, there is viable option to have hitting arm either parallel to baseline or in standard trophy position with strings facing sides of court? Any comments?
What is not mentioned by John and which I have commented on in past is that Taylor has his racquet on edge parrarel to base line. With strings facing. Front and back to baseline. A lot of coaches are telling us to have our palm down with strings faving down and up to sky. fritz is not doing that. He does not try to knock the birthday hat off his head or other such nonsense. His racquet drops behind him paralel to baseline and he explodes upward. Beautiful serve. I think this is something we rec player's should focus on. .
I watched the Taylor Fritz serve advice video before watching this video so it was very interesting to see that he is actually tossing the ball much higher than his eventual contact point.
Hi John, one small advice and you'll have to correct me if I am wrong here, begin dropping the tossing arm and initating the leg drive around the same time which will coincide when the ball reaches the apex of the toss. In other words, once you see the apex has occured, go ahead and fire your leg drive and commence the drop the tossing arm. Again as mentioned on your Rublev video, Taylor also implement's your advice about turning the left hand to face the net. ruclips.net/video/uhdFJjvPlbs/видео.html
You have provided the ideal point of reference for timing (I haven't shared this on the channel...only in my courses). The exceptions would be when the toss is either very low (not recommended!) or very high (also not recommended!) But for a toss 24" above contact, the timing and sequencing with the ball descending is a good place of reference. Best, John
Thanks John for your fine analysis of Taylor's serve. Taylor's serve is unusual from a lot of servers in that he does not get into a standard trophy stance. Why? As his hitting arm moves up his right side parallel to the baseline after the ball toss, his strings are facing the front and back of the court as he drops the racquet. The standard trophy stance with most servers is the racquet is on edge to front and back of court with the strings facing the sides of the court. So you would not see the strings from behind the server. But note with Taylor we do in fact see the strings of his racquet.. A lot of pros tell us to keep the strings facing down to court with palm side up. I note that Federer has the standard trophy pose and has a open faced racquet drop as he rotates his shoulder. But clearly Taylor is not serving in this manner. I like his serve a lot. It seems to be a simpler motion that puts less stress on the hitting shoulder. . So while servers get their hitting arm in a 90 degree angle, there is viable option to have hitting arm either parallel to baseline or in standard trophy position with strings facing sides of court? Any comments?
What is not mentioned by John and which I have commented on in past is that Taylor has his racquet on edge parrarel to base line. With strings facing. Front and back to baseline. A lot of coaches are telling us to have our palm down with strings faving down and up to sky. fritz is not doing that. He does not try to knock the birthday hat off his head or other such nonsense. His racquet drops behind him paralel to baseline and he explodes upward. Beautiful serve. I think this is something we rec player's should focus on. .
Good point Frank.
Fantastic analysis and instructions! I’m off to the court to practice my serve by myself and will keep this video in mind as I progress on this 🎾🤗
Thanks for the great feedback. Let me know how your practice is going! Thanks, John
@@PerformancePlusTennis spent a few hours today on my own. Feeling great. When my serve is finalised I’ll make a video of it. Thank you!!!
Sounds good! @@PrecisionPointTennis
I watched the Taylor Fritz serve advice video before watching this video so it was very interesting to see that he is actually tossing the ball much higher than his eventual contact point.
Thanks for sharing, Deethra. I appreciate your contribution to this video, and hope you benefit from all the content here on the channel. Kindly, John
Hi John, one small advice and you'll have to correct me if I am wrong here, begin dropping the tossing arm and initating the leg drive around the same time which will coincide when the ball reaches the apex of the toss. In other words, once you see the apex has occured, go ahead and fire your leg drive and commence the drop the tossing arm. Again as mentioned on your Rublev video, Taylor also implement's your advice about turning the left hand to face the net.
ruclips.net/video/uhdFJjvPlbs/видео.html
You have provided the ideal point of reference for timing (I haven't shared this on the channel...only in my courses). The exceptions would be when the toss is either very low (not recommended!) or very high (also not recommended!) But for a toss 24" above contact, the timing and sequencing with the ball descending is a good place of reference. Best, John
Taylor Fritz needs to have better physical!