Different serves
Serving
Moocached none Asked 11 years ago
Hello Alois,
I've noticed that most players have more than one serve. Is this a good idea? If so please could you recommend another serve or other serves that I should try to learn? I currently only use the pendulum serve.
Thank you
Alois Rosario Answered 11 years ago
Hi Matthew,
It is good to have a couple of serves that you can use but you don’t need to perfect 5 or 6 serves. I think 2 or 3 serves that you work on are good. With each of those 2 or 3 serves you can have a lot of spin and speed variations.
Try the Backhand or Tomahawk serves to start with as a second serve.
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Moocached none Posted 11 years ago
Thank you very much