How to do an Ideal Tennis Returning Serve

Fast Lane Tennis Part 3 Returning Serve Speaker: When you think of the ideal return of serve, you cannot help to think of Tennis icon Andre Agassi, who arguably has owned the best return in the history of Tennis. After some careful research I can tell you that although without doubt he is a gifted athlete, his service return was largely an acquired skill. Each year since he was very young, his father drilled him over-and-over again, hitting literally tens of thousands of service returns. Again the theme of this series shines through. Stardom young but stardom right. With Kalindy we figured out a very unique way to allow her to practice repetitive returns. Take a close look at this one. Repetition with the right foundation has done wonders for Kalindy's service return. Note that if you try to simulate this device on your own, be very careful. We use a very light-weight ball machine along with a very stable ladder and specially-designed platform. When setup properly, it is one of the most helpful devices we have ever used. Before going further, let us see how Beezu (ph) looks when he returns serve, like everything he does, he gets a little over-excited. Take a peek. Okay Beezu, enough joking around, now let us move to the three keys to get any normal player on the fast lane to better service returns. Andre Agassi was taught to take no back-swing, although no back-swing at all is impossible, it should be minimized, especially against high hit balls which includes returning serve. One good transition drill is to hit balls out of the air in rapid succession. In this situation a large back-swing is impossible. Then try returning with the server hitting from the service line. Again this speeds things up and forces the receiver to minimize the back-swing. If you are worried about getting zip on your return, if you have a minimal back-swing, worry no longer. The answer is to move forward as Kalindy is now demonstrating, just set up a V using some court markers and move forwards up the channel. You will find it by moving forwards; you will not only hit crisp returns but also give the server less time to prepare for the return of your return since you will be contacting the ball closer inside the court. For returning serve the saying, fail to plan, and plan to fail, is appropriate. Before the server hits the ball, we have Kalindy call out where she will hit the ball, if it goes to her forehand, and where if it goes to her backhand. Kalindy: If it comes to my forehand I will hit it cross-court and if it comes to my backhand I will hit it upright. Speaker: Options include direction and also hitting drop-shots or even chipping and charging towards the net. If you can practice and master, these three return of serve tips of little back-swing deciding in advance where you are going to hit and moving forwards into that ball your Tennis will improve dramatically, no doubt about it. Thank you for joining us for this program of the ten shows series, we call Fast Lane Tennis.