Great serve from a great tournament BNP Indian Wells 2016. If you've got a good monitor look at the sidespin on the ball even at 480 fps Here's the BNP site: www.bnpparibaso... For my still photos of the event: flic.kr/s/aHsk...
Sick disguise and made Nole thought it’s a serve down the T for a split second. He didn’t need to toss the ball slightly to his right hand side and still able to hit a sick slice serve
People, why don't you just stop calling it a kick serve. it's obviously slice. Just look at the side spin, look at the ball's travel path, look at the racquets travel path, look at the contact point, look how he twists his body. Only people who don't play tennis would think this is a kick serve.
It's actually a topspin slice. His racquet went slightly up following contact, allowing slightly more net clearance and higher bounce. I believe in the US, they call all topspin serves kick serves. In Australia, they call the left-right top spin serve "kick serves" and it used to be called the "American twist serve". There is no agreed terminology.
@@GIN.356.A You're being misled by the camera angle. The arm motion is that of a kick serve, the ball is noticeably spinning top to bottom, and veering off to the right after the bounce where a slice would have it spinning bottom to top and veering off to the left. It's a kick serve.
@@remnant24 actually you are being misled by the camera angle it's slice. The racquet is going forward and to the side . 0 top spin. 100% side spin. Just look the trajectory of the ball. Was downward. You think that a kick serve is going downward! Wtf. Kick serve first goes up and then goes down because the spin. This is not a kick serve.
@@remnant24 yeah I'm a year late but this is a slice serve. Watch it in 0.25x. It does have a fair bit of topspin though, which comes from slicing it "from below" just a bit - requires unbelievable wrist flexibility and really good timing. What you're seeing is more of a 8-to-3 (rather than 9-to-3 aka typical "slice" with sidespin and no under- or topsping) strike of the ball, which creates the topspin. But the ball is clearly spinning to the left, making it a slice and distinguishing it from a kicker which spins to the right (when hit by a righty). This is also known as a "twist" serve!
