Sick disguise and made Nole thought it’s a serve down the T for a split second. He didn’t need to toss the ball slightly to his right hand side and still able to hit a sick slice serve
@@GIN.356.A You're being misled by the camera angle. The arm motion is that of a kick serve, the ball is noticeably spinning top to bottom, and veering off to the right after the bounce where a slice would have it spinning bottom to top and veering off to the left. It's a kick serve.
@@remnant24 actually you are being misled by the camera angle it's slice. The racquet is going forward and to the side . 0 top spin. 100% side spin. Just look the trajectory of the ball. Was downward. You think that a kick serve is going downward! Wtf. Kick serve first goes up and then goes down because the spin. This is not a kick serve.
@@remnant24 yeah I'm a year late but this is a slice serve. Watch it in 0.25x. It does have a fair bit of topspin though, which comes from slicing it "from below" just a bit - requires unbelievable wrist flexibility and really good timing. What you're seeing is more of a 8-to-3 (rather than 9-to-3 aka typical "slice" with sidespin and no under- or topsping) strike of the ball, which creates the topspin. But the ball is clearly spinning to the left, making it a slice and distinguishing it from a kicker which spins to the right (when hit by a righty). This is also known as a "twist" serve!
People, why don't you just stop calling it a kick serve. it's obviously slice. Just look at the side spin, look at the ball's travel path, look at the racquets travel path, look at the contact point, look how he twists his body. Only people who don't play tennis would think this is a kick serve.
It's actually a topspin slice. His racquet went slightly up following contact, allowing slightly more net clearance and higher bounce. I believe in the US, they call all topspin serves kick serves. In Australia, they call the left-right top spin serve "kick serves" and it used to be called the "American twist serve". There is no agreed terminology.
Sick disguise and made Nole thought it’s a serve down the T for a split second. He didn’t need to toss the ball slightly to his right hand side and still able to hit a sick slice serve
How can people, in comments, not call that a slice? It is the most obvious thing I've seen in my life...
Agreed. Oh my lord people are stupid
I agree, it is quite obvious lmao
cause "the know it all comments" doesnt even play tennis
Is it because the pronation looks and feels so late?
beautiful!
Beautiful... indeed. But it’s not a slice. That’s a Kick Serve. Djokovic was caught ... he thought the ball was going down the T.
No, a kick serve you need to brush up at the ball from 6 to 12 or 7 to 1, 0:18 clearly shows his racquet hit the ball from 9 to 3, its a slice serve.
I agree. All my slice serves bounce left and my kickers bounce right. Maybe some players think this is a kicker because they're lefties?
@@GIN.356.A You're being misled by the camera angle. The arm motion is that of a kick serve, the ball is noticeably spinning top to bottom, and veering off to the right after the bounce where a slice would have it spinning bottom to top and veering off to the left. It's a kick serve.
@@remnant24 actually you are being misled by the camera angle it's slice. The racquet is going forward and to the side . 0 top spin. 100% side spin. Just look the trajectory of the ball. Was downward. You think that a kick serve is going downward! Wtf. Kick serve first goes up and then goes down because the spin. This is not a kick serve.
@@remnant24 yeah I'm a year late but this is a slice serve. Watch it in 0.25x. It does have a fair bit of topspin though, which comes from slicing it "from below" just a bit - requires unbelievable wrist flexibility and really good timing. What you're seeing is more of a 8-to-3 (rather than 9-to-3 aka typical "slice" with sidespin and no under- or topsping) strike of the ball, which creates the topspin. But the ball is clearly spinning to the left, making it a slice and distinguishing it from a kicker which spins to the right (when hit by a righty). This is also known as a "twist" serve!
He had no chance in hell in getting that serve.
People, why don't you just stop calling it a kick serve. it's obviously slice. Just look at the side spin, look at the ball's travel path, look at the racquets travel path, look at the contact point, look how he twists his body. Only people who don't play tennis would think this is a kick serve.
It's actually a topspin slice. His racquet went slightly up following contact, allowing slightly more net clearance and higher bounce. I believe in the US, they call all topspin serves kick serves. In Australia, they call the left-right top spin serve "kick serves" and it used to be called the "American twist serve". There is no agreed terminology.
@@fudagroup9935 I agree
@@fudagroup9935 just to be crystal clear, I agree with @fuda group analysis (comment)
Djoko was little late on the prep step...
GOL! GOL GOL GOL !
GOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLL!!!
that was filthy
It ins't a kick.
Isnt Isner 🤣🤣
Jesus ...
dirty
That's called a bodega slice
Beautiful
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Milos is a don
Slice or no slice that is the question 😊 God bless thanks 😊
This is a spin serve not a slice serve
It's slice
It’s a slice serve that produced spin....?
What the hell is a spin serve? Every serve has a spin. People are just making up terms now.
I showed this video to RF and he said it's not a properly executed slice but it is. I believe him :)
Let the ball drop and hitting up - looks more like a kicker
hes not hiting a "kicker". did u even read and watch? its a solid slice serve!
He didn't come up the ball, look at the pronation. He came around the right
A very amateurish judgement
False.
imagine you have super slow mo where you can see the revolutions of the ball at its direction and still call it a kick serve.