In order to serve well, you need to have reliable mechanics, an effective pre-serve routine and a range of different serves. In addition, top servers know how to disguise their serve, so their opponent can not determine what kind of serve is coming their way.
When you serve, you take the racquet up, but do not drop it back down when beginning your swing. Keep it up there and swing at the ball.
It is hard to throw a racket up without getting the drop. The goal of the drill is to get you used to the motion of the drop without having the distraction of trying to hit a ball.
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| Camila Giorgi elegant racquet drop |
Technical question on the racket drop. Does the racket face need to be perpendicular to the net while the racket is in the drop position? This the type of thinking that will kill your motion. I have been down that road.
Focus on taking the racquet back from the start of the serve like you are combing the racquet face backwards over your head.
This link I was talking about has a drill that shows how to do this.
It will fix the racquet drop. I spent an hour today on it, and it fixed mine. My serves were far cleaner and consistent. Tons of easy power. I simply have to practice my serve a lot to groove it in, and it's done.
That was my "serve killer" and sounds like it may be yours as well.
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