Serving a fast and short serve

viki sharma Asked 14 years ago

Hi PingSkills,

It is easy for me to serve a fast long ball and a short slow ball. What adjustments should be made in order to serve a slow long ball and a short fast ball?

Thanks in advance...

Alois Rosario Answered 14 years ago

Hi Viki,

To serve a slow long ball you can slow down the contact on the ball and get the ball to bounce a little higher over the net.

To serve a short fast ball is a little trickier.  You need a good fast contact on the ball but you also need a lot of spin.  A lot of topspin will bring the ball down quickly as soon as it goes over the net.  This does take a lot of practice.

The best way to do it is to set up a small target just over the net and try to serve the ball as fast as possible onto that target. 

We cover this in one of our Premium lessons.