Hi guys Nick here from Intuitive Tennis. In today's video I'm going to show you
how you can improve your serve placement and also how you can improve serving
under pressure. The serve is one of the most important shots in tennis. Fifty
percent of the points in matches start on your own serve, however the serve is
often a neglected part of tennis practice and if the serve is practiced, often
players will randomly serve into the box without real purpose. Serving to a target
is a must-do thing when you're practicing you serve, but today in
addition to serving to these six cones that I've setup, I'm also gonna give
myself a time limit. I'm gonna give myself a four minute limit to knock down
at these six cones. Hopefully it's gonna build a little bit of additional
pressure when I'm serving and can somewhat mimic a match situation. So I'm
not only aiming towards a cone, I'm also getting a little bit of pressure if I'm
about to run out of time. I'm going to start the timer right now so four
minutes to knock down these six cones. Let me try the yellow one first.
comon
close
I came pretty close again
let's try another one yellow again
ah come on a little bit more to the right and I got it
a couple of centimeters
oh that hurts no it's close let me switch it up and go
for the green
okay go for that green
oh man getting closer. The good thing about serve target practice is, if you don't get the
cone some of these are still great serves
all right all right all right
here we go now we're on the board let's go to the yellow
go for the red
put slice on the red
time one minute twenty
two I got plenty of time I just got to relax take my time red okay again I
again
go to the red again
oh man the red one's not working go back to the yellow
let's try again
yellow again
oh god that was a terrible serve.
Again I've go to slow down and take my time even there is a time limit I have to take my time.
all right and I'm gonna go for the red again that's a good strategy take my
time and don't rush.
I'll have a good chance to get it. Red.
oh it was bad it was real bad. It's okay. It's okay at to miss.
Okay let me go the other way I'm gonna go for the red. Out wide.
This is one of my favorite serves.
shouldn't have said that
again this is my favorite serve power of positive thinking.
oh man close
try it again a little more slice on there
ah get in there comon
Alright this one is have a feeling I'm gonna hit it
Yes I got it, it counts
go back to the red. Timer, I got a minute left less than a minute
oh I'm rushing a little bit
on more red
Comon
The red is killing me let me go back the other way and go for the blue down to T come on
you got this one.
Oh close
Again
Blue one is all mine right here.
rushing again take your time what's the time all right I got ten seconds it's
still possible.
oh close
and 5 seconds, last serve
aaah one more. I'll go overtime. Okay I'm overtime this one won't count
but last one.
Alright
I got three out of six that's not bad I'm happy with
that. I can tell you that doing this exercise serving for 4 minutes non-stop. It's
pretty good cardio actually and then I feel it in my arm a little bit. So
it's a great practice not only because we're aiming, but you could see many
serves, there were actually pretty good serves, but I forced myself to make it
even better and even though I didn't hit the cone I was still serving tons of
good serves. So in addition to working on your placement you have this additional
time pressure which is fantastic and it can somewhat mimic a real match situation.
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