Will Hamilton: The seventh part of the serve is to swing from your racquet drop to your contact point. From the trophy pose, the racket is dropped down behind your back and you fully pushed off your legs and from here you have to swing up on edge towards your contact point. Now it's critically swing up on edges like this, like you're hammering a nail on your wall and now with your strings open like this, you have to have your racquet on edge. Now as the racquet swings up on edge, the racquet and your arm are going to form an L shape. Also, as you swing up on edge your body rotates back towards the net, it goes from side ways to back towards the net. Now right before your contact point, once the racquet swings up on edge, you're going to rotate your strings back towards the net, you're going to open the face back to the tennis ball and this is called pronation. It's very similar to giving some body high five. So as you swing up on edge, right before your contact point, give the tennis ball a high five. If we watch from the trophy pose, this is what it looks like together. Racquet drops push off, swing up on edge, and high five the tennis ball.
From the racquet drop, I swing up on edge towards the tennis ball and my racquet and my arm form the L as I've talked as I swing up with the ball. Now from the back angle, again I'm in the racquet drop, as I swing up with the ball my racquet is on edge and I'm rotating my body back towards the net. Now right before I hit the ball. it looks like I'm going to hit the ball with the side of the racquet, but in the next frame I've open my strings up, I have given the tennis ball high five, and I'm hitting the ball with my strings. So pronating your wrist is a very fast motion, if we go back again this is right before contact the racquet is on edge and now in the next frame I'm hitting the ball with my strings. Now let's take a look again from the racquet drop, the whole motion I swing up on edge rotate my body back towards the net, and then in the last second I pronate my wrist and make contact with the tennis ball with the strings in my racquet.
This is Marat Safin in his racket drop. As he swings up with the tennis ball, he swings up on edge and his racquet and his arm form an L. Now right before he makes contact with the tennis ball, he is going to pronate is wrist, he is going to give the tennis ball high five, and if we take a look at him at contact from the front, its clear that he is pronated his wrist right before he hit the ball. Now let's take a look at him in his racquet drop from behind. He swings up on edge at the tennis ball and then this is him right after contact, he is clearly pronated. Also, let's go back to him in the racquet drop, his body side ways, but then as he swings up with the ball he rotates it up a body back towards the net. So again, if you watch it one more time, he side ways in the racquet drop and then through contact his body is begun to rotate back around.
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