The Differences Between Topspin And Flat Tennis Serve

[bugabutu]

prince graphite racket for the win

[terryschutte]

wow dude your very good

[jakechauret]

In order to hit a top spin serve or kick serve..he should of changed his grip. He was hitting a slice not a top spin serve.

[ThirdDrunkDog]

for people who didnt get it, watch it again, but this time, focus on the sound.

Close your eyes and listen...

can you hear the flat serve?

Now watch it again and follow the head of the racquet

[FuzyConker]

i hit hard flat serves i dont know if i add topspin on it ???

[konvictz0007]

@FuzyConker just watch how the ball reacts...if it kicks up, then there is some action on the ball...

[almeidajamie]

so slow!

[polipoli7]

ow you're so boastful don't even have a video of your crappy serve

[RcGuitarHeli]

I use the top spin serve as a second serve

[mksander]

Thanks for all these fabolous tennis videos!

[robasvin]

Thank you Tomaz. Very good. I watched this video 10000 times.

[camweezy5]

On a flat serve he was hitting down on the ball but on a topspin serve he was hitting on the side of the ball. The ball kicked a little on the topspin serve.:)(:

[MangoPEELS]

1. flat goes forehand, topspin goes backhand[ACCORDING TO WHAT HE DID ;D]

but in reality

2.Flat = small bounce, Topspin = jumpy

[gameplay0]

depends. flat is usually really heavy and powerful. a topspin serve can be jumpy, or be used to help the ball sink for those of us shorter players.

[mmike01]

I do a hard flat body serve

[KA5H24]

me too, but i really wanna change it

[Baseline2008]

Thanks For Uploading its cool and u have edited it Very god

[kidzranqefan]

i do side spin serves

[moksyb]

i am afraid to do a top spin serve because it dirves the ball random directions.

[xoxotennisQT]

i agree plus i spin too early and goes right in the net..

[ztevo]

I found alot of this serve has to do with where you toss it. You can almost make the same movement, but it depends where your catches it in relation to the toss. The flat serve is somewhat infront of you to the right and the kick is almost behind and to the left. Try it out.

[artdamage]

I have a flat serve :( I'm trying to make it have more topspin

[BigStupidFingers]

I don't care, I'm sticking with my flat spin serve... When I put top spin on it I either get control or speed.  With my flat spin serve I can get both speed and control.

[artdamage]

I do too, but I would want my serves to be mroe difficult to get

[fulmoon1991]

Lol you're hilarious... I suppose you also have two different rackets with which to change your game... Because you're that good right?

[BigStupidFingers]

Huh? I only own 2 rackets, most of the time I just loan it to someone if we want to play on a wim. Or I use my spare if I break a string on my normal racket.

[kenufeelthamusic]

Hmmm I wanna point out that you're not looking for speed on a second serve; flattish serves are easy to return when you get a racket on the ball because they're predictable. That's pretty much the main reason why Roddick isn't as dominant a player as he should be.

If you learn how to hit a topspin or slice serve, the ball has a different kind of action on it that's difficult to predict, depending on how much spin it has.

[mandron]

Lol it's not hard to hit a fast serve if you know it's going to be flat... The reason fast serves end up being aces a lot of the time is that people are expecting kicks or slices instead.

[yoimcrazy]

Do you pronate on your flat serve?

[Koaske]

You pronate on every serve.

[midpod]

EEUU= idiot !!!!!!!!!!

[siegeperilous]

I'm curious about something, but I don't know if you can answer this for me.

I know that topspin will make a ball drop sooner due to the Magnus effect on the ball, but does it make the ball drop "faster?" I always thought that all things dropped at a uniform speed due to gravity, so does a topspin ball drop "faster?" Or at the same speed as a flat ball?

[track818]

I am not really a tennis pro, but when I looked carefully at his serves did you notice that the topspin "seemed" to curve in to make it stop quicker? Not quicker by speed but quicker by distance. I am only guessing, if you want to be sure than ask the pro himself, I can only tell you what I think.

[siegeperilous]

Thanks for the response...

Well, from what I've read, I know a topspin ball slows down as it moves through the air due to air friction, so I'm assuming that, since that ball is moving slower, it drops sooner since gravity has more time to act on it before it travels further. What I want to know is if balls drop FASTER due to topspin.

It's more of a trivia question than anything else.

[track818]

In my opinion if you have never seen the topspin it will only seem fasater because you were expecting the ball to fall ot but then it suddenly curved down thus making it seem as though the ball had dropped "faster."

[airez2]

It makes it so that you are able to put more force into the ball. It makes it so that a fast ball can clear the net and stay in as opposed to a similarly fast flat ball, which would go out.

[tafder]

siegeperilous:

It drops faster because of the pressure differential. Top spin adds a force pointing downards.

I'm afraid your interpretation below, about 'gravity has more time to act' is also wrong.

[pandapinay101]

I know this is weird, but I love the sound of the flat serve :) Lol

[derhundchen]

so do I

[zcarenow]

r u the famous tomaz muster? one who played years ago and won the french open a few times

[zcarenow]

so only two types of serves? i thought there was another kind of serve

[60billionman]

there are also slice and twist serves, but the video lessons here are just about those

[AvgHunter]

wow nice serve what racket do you use?

[JewJewB]

How tall are you Mr. Mindgame? Just out of curiosity.

[TennisMindGame]

180 cm and my name is Tomaz. ;)

[icysnowberry]

i was just wondering... by any chance, will you teach us how to do a spin serve?

[TennisMindGame]

Go to my website and under Instruction section you will find an article for the top spin serve.

[Ntour]

good video, the thing that a lot of people do when trying to hit a topspin serve is they open their body the same as they do for a flat serve. This video is really good at showing the differences

[Italianstud9]

Amateur question....what are the advantages/disadvantages of each type of serve? Is either one better than the other, in your opinion?

[smithcook]

Flat serve is faster. Generally used as a first serve to get aces. Topspin serve has more margin for error because it clears the net at a higher level. It is generally used as a second serve. Club players often don't know the topspin serve so they whack the first serve and tap the second one to make sure it goes in. The topspin serve is also often used in doubles as a first serve because it gives the server more time to get to the net.