Tennis Practice: How to hit a Kick Serve

As a beginning tennis player whether you are young or old learning how to hit a kick serve can be a great asset to your game. The kick serve has been around for years and has been used from all of the games greatest. Andy Roddick has one of the nastiest kick serves on the tour. He drives opponents crazy because of how much spin and pace he able to generate in to his serve. If executed properly a kick serve will allow you to get free points on your first or second serve and will also generate short balls off of your opponents returns.

So how do you exactly hit a kick serve? Well there are few fundamental tools you need to execute a kick serve properly.
1. For a beginner you want to start throwing your ball toss a bit over your head. Now if you are righty then that means if you are standing on a court about to hit a serve in the deuce your toss should drop about a foot in front of you and 6 inches behind you. Now this is going to vary for everyone but when starting out trying to hit this type of serve you have to get a consistent ball toss and it needs to be a bit over your head.
2. Next step is to open up the head of your racket so when it approaches the ball it can sweep the back side of the ball. What I mean by this is the racket face needs to be open like you were to hit a forehand slice.
3. Now that the ball is up in the air and your racket is open as you appraoch the ball (as a righty) from the back side and below you want to try and hit topspin on the ball from a serve. So let's look at this again as the ball is in the air you must keep your forearm very relaxed so you can flick your wrist up and out towards 2:00. This is something that needs to be practiced a lot and you will gain to become more familiar and confident hitting this serve the more you practice it.
The keys to success for a kick serve:
1.Keep your arm loose and fluid through out the serving motion
2. Your ball toss must be consistent
3. When you make contact with the ball it needs to be from below the ball and forced up and out towards 2.00 for right handed players and towards 10.00 for lefties.
4. Make sure you follow through in to the court and keep accelerating.

Like I said this is a great serve to learn for any level player and if executed properly the spin that is created will cause the ball to jump in a different direction then the path of the ball. Causing your opponent to be caught off guard even if they are expecting it. Learn this serve and you will find many free points coming your way as well as less stress in holding your serve.

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