Short serve to compliment aggressive deep/spinny serves

Donald Lawson Asked 7 years ago

Alois,

My deep topspin tomahawk serves (both traditional and reverse tomahawk) are usually very effective against my opponents for the first game or two (they miss many of them long and/or wide).  Then my opponents get used to it and anticipate it and its effectiveness is greatly reduced. 

I think that I need to use an aggressive short serve more often, to set up my long tomahawk serves.  However, my pendulum (normal and reverse) serves are not very effective, nor is my backhand side slice serve.

What other short serves would you recommend I develop to compliment my deep tomahawk serves?  And is there a video I can look at.

Thanks.

Don

Alois Rosario Answered 7 years ago

Hi Don,

I think in this case variation is the key.  Even though your other serves may not be as effective, they are a change especially if they are getting used to the Tomahawk serve.  Throw in one of the other serves every 3 or 4 serves and that will make the Tomahawk more effective.

Also work on the subtle variation in the placement of the serves.Serve some to the middle as well as wide or a short one thrown in.