4 Tips For Better Topspin Serves (Tennis Technique Explained) 

Hello coach , I tried your training method on myself and it works well . My serve has improved a lot and thank you very much for your training tips

Thanks Coach! Been watching your videos, appreciate the tips!

Great points of information. Can't wait to go practice it.

Great advice Ryan! Your channel is awesome! thank you.

Dense with very useful tips. As always! Love the -no frills- length.

Indeed I got this👌. Thank you for providing step by step instructions. Appreciate it a lot!

Great stuff. Simply explained.

Such a great video as always.. Will be trying these tips on my next game

Great explaination Ryan🔥

Great channel! Lots of good tips! I have one tip for you on your kick serve. Keep your elbow high and head up after hitting the ball.

Thanks coach. My serve has improved tremendously after watchin your video.

Great tips! I'll try tomorrow in my practice ;)

another great tips. I'm gonna try this tomorrow morning.😁😁😀😀

Very good Thank you

Definitely tryin' that one out.

great tips!

A ha! The double hat hit explanation made me completely understand the movement!

great. thx.

i liked the idea of hitting the party hat in the way to contact. so as you see i can also apreciate things :):)

thanks Ryan.

i am an old 4.0 player. the 2 tips that helped me was tossing back by left eye (12 o'clock. Ryan would say more fwd.) and brining the racket over my head two times. these changes gave me effortless topspin. My old toss was more to the right and flatter. I now can have some variety to my service bounces. Too many 4.0 players serves bounce at the exact same height because they can't vary their you can teach an old dog new tricks!i

Thanks coach. Is topspin is less Xtream version of kick serve ? Can anybody help to understand the difference

hey ryan, can you analyse justin henin's one handed backhand?

Wonderful stuff, especially the advice regarding the grip and "hitting" the birthday hat twice.

Tip 4 is a new tip for me

Good Rayan

What is your placement grip on the topspin serve?

When I hit a topspin serve I feel my bodyweight falling left after contact, like being pushed by a reactive force from hitting the ball. Is this normal?

Is the "Kick" serve the same as the "Topspin" serve?

Ryan - I’m curious, why not just use an eastern backhand grip?

yes I did

i got it 🤙

Like kick serve?

Is this the same as kick serve?

what about Deuce side?

Is this better than a topspin slice for a 1st serve? If you toss a 12 o clock. How do get power if using as a 1st serve??

Hey thanks for the video! When you say hit up on the ball ie: 6 - 12 on the clock do you make contact literally at 6? I have found some success in that, but when experimenting it seems like I get a pretty nasty kick focusing on making contact directly at 12 or 1. I'm wondering if the 6-12 motion is just to get you to swing up and make contact at 12 or are you truly brushing up on the ball from 6-12? If not what would you call the serve I describe making contact at 12?

I have tried your swing path and I dont end up getting much pace on the ball. I end up using Fed's swing path and the ball has a lot more pace. The difference is your upswing is just same as your drop but in opposite direction. That means that you racket is always brushing the back of the ball. Fed actually has his racket edge at 45 degrees instead of directly behind the ball like yours or almost 90 degrees like a first serve. That angle difference puts more forward pace on the ball while providing the kick. I think most pros copy what Fed does and I think Zverev is closer to 90 degrees than 45 and makes too many double faults. Thanks for the video.

On the second serve: (1) use an eastern one handed backhand grip for more spin; (2) toss just slightly left of where you toss for the first serve (12 oclock instead of 1 oclock for 1st serves); (3) keep your tossing handing up; (4) look up at ball when swinging - don't look at the service box; (5) the swing path will be along the back of the ball and 2 or 3 oclock; (6) swing as fast as you swing on first serves - the spin will bring the ball down into the court. Don't aim too close to the lines. Most 2nd serves should be to the returner's backhand side either with topspin or sidespin. Second serve should never be flat (or low topspin) and to the returner's forehand side. Some serves could be deep into the middle of the box to jam the returner but be prepared if the returner gets out of way and hits a hard forehand.

Hi Ryan, is top spin serve a better alternative compared to slice serve? For some reason whenever I use top spin serve, my opponents seemed to be punishing my serve. Not sure if my top spin serve was lacking of pace or spin. Whereas if I use slice serve, seems harder for my opponents to return. Thanks.

New to Tennis... so... is the Topspin Serve the best or preferred serve for tennis?

Hi, why don't you show Topspin Serves from Deuce court too?

Great lesson. How abour pronation?

Great video sir. But your kick lacks height both upon passing by/clearing the net and during bounce. I believe that's why it's called a "kick", the ball should "kick" up post-bounce towards the receiver's shoulders.

thank you very much for showing us this truck we like it very much and help a lot like how you explain it it's very very big job and thank you very much for watching for your job

My goal is to learn this serve within a year.

It shouldn't irk me, but when you call that ridge between bevel 1 and bevel 2, panel 1.5, it does. I hope that you'll call it "the one-two ridge" in future clips. But yeah, I'm gonna try putting my heel pad on the one-two ridge. Thanks!

Looks like a kick serve

That ain't two minutes