How Serena Williams set up her staggering serve with pure elegance | Acing It
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
- In this episode of Acing It, ESPN's Bill Connelly dives into the quiet key behind Serena Williams' booming serve: her serve toss. That ball toss might seem like a small matter, but the start of Serena's serve boasting reliability and unreadability unlocked everything for her.
0:00 Intro
0:24 Why the serve toss matters
2:15 What the stats say about Serena's serve
3:32 Serena's serve speed
4:40 Why Wimbledon 2012 was a key point
6:41 Serena's clutch gene
8:15 Further study: Nick Kyrgios
8:55 Serena's place in the GOAT era of tennis
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I could watch this over and over and over. And still learn something new about Serena.
Much thanks.
Best Tennis athlete ever
Best female tennis player yep.
@@MisterMxyzptlk1972 no best athlete ever to play tennis none of the men have done what she has done it’s just a simple fact who is gonna win a slam pregnant and invade death twice 💀
@@Official.tadiwa Ok so she's 2nd on the list of women's titles won and would be 2nd place in titles behind Novak. You can say she's the best female tennis athlete but she's not better than male athletes. That's why women play against women and men play men. Serena and her sister at the peak of their dominance both got destroyed when they played exhibition sets against Aarsten Braasch who was ranked 200th in the world.
@@MisterMxyzptlk1972 no she is first MC never won 7 matches to win a grand slam ever. Ontop of that Novak is only good at single Serena has double titles along with mixed doubles titles she could’ve completed a career golden slam in mixed doubles too and would’ve if she continued to play it. 23 slams 14 slams 2 slams. Novak doesn’t even begin to compare. 4 gold medals. She is THE GREATEST ATHLETE EVER TO PLAY TENNIS
@@Official.tadiwa Ok, you want to talk numbers? Martina Navratilova has 167 total titles including women's doubles and mixed doubles. Chris Evert 157, Steffi Graf 107, Margaret Court 92, and Serena down in 5th with 73. Her career is great, just not the best by far.
The best server EVER. Power+Placement+Disguise+Top Spin+Direction. No one could ever.
Will never forget that 4 ace service game in the Wimbledon final
One of the reason I love Serena is that you can read her thoughts through her service games and shots.
Like the 4 aces!
The best ever.
I think I heard Serena also didn’t plan where she was gonna serve. She let the toss decide
One thing we all gonna agree is that tennis world is gonna miss her soo much 😢,and also it's sad to see the end of an Era for Serena,federer,Novac and Nadal..i wish they can continue playing for 10 more years
Serena Williams the greatest of all time with greatest serve of all time in both male and female tennis
Nothing but a champ
Most beautiful serve motion I ever saw.
9:44 why Serena is the goat 🐐🐐🐐 2️⃣3️⃣🏆
the best of 3 format yes exactly
And she is not the tallest and doesn’t toss the ball way too high like most other women on WTA 😂 , yet her serves are the most consistent with best placement and optimal power in the history of tennis. All of these are testament to her flawless polished technique of serving. Proof that you don’t need to be over 6 foot tall and no need to toss the ball way too high when you serve in tennis.
My God, this woman
That’s an impressive point about Serena needing to win the 3 sets vs the men’s 5 sets. But the reverse is also true. You can win 2 sets on the men’s side & still lose/be pushed to 5 sets.
Over time that takes a toll. Whereas in WTA u win the first 2 sets..(or even 1 set, get a double break in 2nd set.)...the match is pretty much over
She served better than a lot of men having similar stats as the big three
That’s why she lost to number 200 in the world while being Top 5
@@ytprv1890 that never happened 😂 do your research she played atp 200 who was ranked 35 years before that but got injured leading to fall in rankings on top of that Serena was 17 ranked 99 without any slams to her name
@@ytprv1890 I’m embarrassed for you 💀
@@Official.tadiwa Average black person lol
@@Official.tadiwa He was ranked 200, said too have played like a 600, and his training was often cited as smoking a pack and drinking a few pints. He was also considerably older and he still decimated them. I’m embarrassed that we’re part of the same species💀
It’s only after they retired that they get the recognition they deserved. In this case, Serena but also Venus are prime examples of that. But let’s not forget the most influential entities and formed and shaped the tennis world - Richard Williams and Oracean Price.
LOVE THIS!!!!
2012 was Serna at her peak. She could literally do no wrong she was on IT.
4:05 that's freakishly mean 😅
haha 😊😊
been trying for 5 years to get this serve.
Queen of ace
As a true Serena fan this script was underwhelming but I appreciate the attempt 💫 please let tennis players direct/ write these not generic sports analysts
The 🐐🐐🐐🐐
🤯👏🏽👏🏽 that’s all!!
The GOAT 🎾🏆
The GOAT
Thank you for saying that 3 sets is a harder match than 5 for a top player...
U being serious or joking? Just asking.
The poor guy at the end took corpse corner too literally
I missss herrrrrrr! The women's game is a mess right now.
Also the fact you're giving credit to Mouratoglou is ridiculous. Before the French open 2012, serena was destroying the field on clay in both Charleston and Madrid. Her Charlestown sf and f were ridiculous performances. She was always prone to bad slams after nearly dying in 2010/2011. She had bad slam results in 2014 too, where she was ridiculously bad and Patrick was her coach then!
Serena is The Goat but you dropped the ball when you said Serena and The Big 3 were the only 20 plus slams in the Open Era. Steffi Graf.
The 🐐
For me, Serena is the GOAT on the women’s side. She won all those slams in singles even though she played very little tournaments in between while also taking home some slams in doubles. Ever since she retired, I stopped tuning in to the sport and have lost interest.
Hmmm. Not sure what the point of this video is at this time?
In The Arena docuseries is released July 10th on ESPN+.
Athleticism Question: Hypothetically, Do you think Serena and Venus Williams in their physical/athletic primes could have success playing high school football? Do they have the athleticism for it? Why or why not?
She really beneifitted with her muscle and ability to just put muscle other women.
Dumb dumb, ball toss has nothing to do with muscles.
americans never accept that she overpowered players. she made tennis boring, the era of cljisters, Henin, Hingis was magnificent.
U clearly don’t know tennis. 😂😂 Believe it or not, being muscular is a detriment. Go look at Alycia Park’s game. One of the top Serves on WTA, taller (6’1) & more powerful than Serena. With spotty accuracy & guile. Then look at Novak’s body. Then check out Chris Eubanks who is emancipated and hits harder Forehands than all the Top 10. (This is documented. Arthur Fils is 2nd)
@@lizzy341Hate all you want but at the end of the day, Serena has 23 grand slams because of her physicality and sheer talent. Most women would love to walk in Serena’s shoes.
She's white now
What shade of make- up do you wear?
It was just a man playing amongst women. There was no technique or skill, just brute force.
When you hate yourself you project that to others around you.
Do you play tennis?
how to tell me you know nothing about tennis without saying you know nothing about tennis lmao. You stupid bro
The racism is still strong in some weak ugly humans for you to state this in 2024! Sickening 😩. Cant you get passed this?? I mean ever??
You didn’t watch the video or wash your legs
The GOAT