How to Serve in Tennis

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Scott for Expert Village. Now we're going to talk about what we're going to do after we hit our serve. We've, let's say we've hit a successful serve. And I forgot to mention that you do get two serves. If you don't get the ball in the, in the service court with the first ball, you do get a second ball. I think we covered it earlier, but just to, to reiterate. You have to get one out of two, two attempts into that box. Once you do that, the ball is in play. Now let's say I've hit my serve, I'm following through, I'm coming into the court. You don't want to be standing in the middle of the court. This is what they call dead man's land. If you're standing here, you're basically, the guy can hit it anywhere and he's probably going to win the point, unless he hits it right at you. And most the time, you're hitting against somebody, they're going to try to hit it away from wherever you're at. So, you don't want to be standing in the middle of the court. You want either stay back after you hit your serve, you want to stay back and kind of get a feel for the, the point. Let it play out a little bit. And then if he hits a short ball, then you move in and then you?re going to take it on the, on the run. You've got one bounce to get to it, so you want be on your toes. Or when you hit your serve you can follow up and end up coming up if you've hit a decent serve, and you've got the guy towards the baseline, you can continue up to the, to the net and then you can make a play up at the net. And we'll cover that in the next segment."