Hey everyone, Simon here with Top Tennis Training and in this video, I want to
show you three drills that will help you improve your slice serve. Now before we get
into the drills what exactly is a slice serve and why would we want to use it?
Now the slice serve is basically a surf that bounces and will spin away from
your opponent if you hit it correctly it's great for opening up the core
because the player then has to chase that ball away to the right and they'll
end up in the tramlines if you hit a good slice of on the outside we could
also use a slice of down the tee and can also use a slice up on both sides to
serve into the players body so the returner will then be jammed up
hopefully and then you'll have an easier shot to attack now before we get into
drill one if you're serious about improving your game then make sure you
have subscribe to the channel and now the mechanics of the slice of I have
covered in a previous video and I'll leave the link to that video down below
but some of the basics are the first thing is where you're actually making
contact with the ball now if we think about the ball as a clock we have twelve
o'clock on the top six o'clock on the bottom now some coaches and some people
will teach you to hit the slice of at three o'clock now the issue of that is
if I hit the ball with any real power it's going to sell white because it
doesn't have that dipping effect now what we want to do is that you hit the
ball around one or two o'clock so one o'clock is ideal this will help you to
really hit down on the ball but still impart that slice that you need for that
ball to curve away so one o'clock is your ideal contact point for that slice
of now this doesn't mean that I'm hitting the side of the ball exactly as
one o'clock if you imagine the ball as a flat image so I'm hitting one o'clock
but on the back of the ball so I'm not hitting the side of the ball because
then the ball have no power and it'll simply skid off the court but what I am
doing is hitting one o'clock on that flat image and this will allow me to
really produce that slice but get that dipping effect which is so important to
pulling the player off the court
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now the second thing you want to focus on when you are heading the slice of is
the positioning off the body now when we hit a kick serve we stay side on when we
hit a flat so if we can open up but with a slice of especially on the deuce side
going wide you want to really feel like you're opening the shoulders you're
opening the body prior to contact so the contact point I'll be fully open when
I'm hitting this slice of this will allow me to then throw my right shoulder
forward and this is exactly what we're going to work on in one of the drills
now in this first drill we're going to be serving from the single strand line
very wide on the deuce court all I'm going to be doing is freeing the ball
far to the right side of my body so I'm going to be exaggerating that extreme
slice effect that I want to produce when I'm hitting the real slice of and I'm
simply curving the ball on the outside so really hitting it like it's three
o'clock this is where you can really practice hitting the ball at three
o'clock and being aggressive with the strings see how much slice you can
produce in that sidon position now of course when we go back to the reel
motion you're not going to be doing this hitting the ball and then coming down
like so you still want to be hitting the ball and then pronating after the
contact point so I mean my trophy position I mean that side on position
with my body I'm gonna fruit a ball extremely far to my right as far as I
can to still make contact and see how much slice I can produce on this earth
I could also work here on actually opening my right shoulder so when I
finish the survey end up with the shoulder facing the net and this will
help me to uncoil when I ask you go back to my normal sort here is where it's
vital that you start pulling away from the contact point with your left arm if
you're a right-handed player so your non hitting arm as I toss the ball my left
arm is pointing up to the ball but then it pulls away which allows me to uncoil
the shoulders and open up the entire body the faster I pull this left arm
away the more I'll open up the body and this is vital for your slice up now
before we get into next show I just want to let you know that we'd have a free
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link below don't miss out now let's get back to the
video in this next role I'm serving from that front on position so my feet both
feet are pointing towards the net and I'm serving my normal motion now but but
instead of being in that side on position like so I'm now front on and
this will really help me feel that opening of the shoulders and how I
should actually end up even when I start in that side on position so feet are
pointing forwards I'm doing my normal motion I can free the ball slightly more
to my right and I'm still curving the ball hitting it at around one o'clock
now a good indicator if I'm hitting a good slicer is if it bounces inside the
service box and it passes the doubles tramline so it goes outside of the
double strand line before it passes the baseline so if the returner
would have to reach out past the double strand line to actually make contact
with the ball before it's actually past their baseline and I've hit a really
good slice of I've curved it off the court and now the opponent is in trouble
because they're far off into that doubles alley and now I have the whole
open court to exploit on my next shot
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in this next drill you're now working on your normal service motion so side on
position but instead of finishing just like this I'm now going to hit that
slicer curve it as much as I can but then finish with my right shoulder
facing the net so it's going to look like this finish and my right shoulder
comes all the way around I want to imagine that I'm throwing this right
shoulder into that slice of that will help me to then open up the body and
this will allow me to produce to the angle that I need for this curving wide
slice of
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signing off Simon from TTD all the best guys and see you soon stay safe