Tennis For Beginners - How to Learn the Service Step by Step

▷▷▷Tennis For Beginners - How to Learn the Service Step by Step

The service is the first stroke in tennis. It places the ball in play. The server, standing behind the base line, throws the ball into the air and bats it diagonally over the net into his opponent's service court. If the ball falls into the net or falls outside the service court of the opponent, it is a fault. The server may then serve another ball.

If the second ball also is a fault, he loses the point to his opponent. If a served ball touches the net but still falls into the opponent's service court, the ball doesn't count. The server serves again. The service must be delivered from behind the base line. The ball must be hit before the server can put his foot over the base line. Otherwise he is guilty of a foot fault, which counts against him the same as a service fault.

An effective service is invaluable to the tennis player. It is the attack. The placement of the serve is more important than speed. You'll discover that accuracy is more important than force. For instance, by placing the service in the far corner, the opponent is pulled out of the court and often has difficulty in getting back into position in time for the next stroke.

It is the one stroke in tennis that can be developed by any tennis beginner on his or her own. The efficiency of your serve depends entirely upon how much time and patience you are willing to give to it. An imperfectly developed service is the greatest difficulty that an instructor encounters. It takes a long time to break down a player's bad serve and replace it with a proper one.

Don't be impatient. Learn each step of the beginner's serve carefully and painstakingly.

So how do you learn it?

Put down your racket for a moment. Take... an ordinary hammer and a nail. Imagine that you are going to drive a nail into the wall to hang a picture from it. Raise the nail about a foot over your head and then hammer it into the wall.

Instinct will force you to keep your eye on the head of the nail. Otherwise you will miss the nail and hit your fingers. The same rule applies to the service in tennis. Put down the hammer and take your racket as if it was a hammer. In this beginner's serve there is no back swing. You place your racket on your shoulder and swinging from there you strike the ball.

Hold a tennis ball in place of the nail. Just as you hammered the nail into the wall, hammer the ball. But to begin with do not strike the ball out of your hand. Your racket will go back over your shoulder just as the hammer did. You will keep your eyes on the ball. The face of the racket meets the ball squarely.

You have now learned the beginner's service stroke!

But the ball is not held in the left hand and struck as if it was a nail held in place. Drop down the left arm with the ball about two feet, toss the ball to the point where you held the nail and hammer it over the net with your racket. The actual blow on the ball is straight ahead. You are driving it as you would drive the nail through a board.

According to tennis rules, the service has to be delivered from behind the base line. But as a beginner you can stand at a point closer the net. For example at the service line and gradually move back step by step until you are serving from the proper position behind the base line.

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