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Tennis Serve - How High Should The Toss Be? Click link for FREE serve course: http://www.ctwacademy.com/add-15-MPH Video Transcript: Okay. This question comes up a lot with my students. "Tom, how high do I want to toss the ball for my serve? Do I want to high toss, do I want to low toss? Where is the optimum toss for power and consistency?" Let me start off by saying you don't want a toss that's too high and you don't want a toss that's too low. You want a toss that's just to the peak of your reach. You don't see this a lot on the ATP Tour and the WTA Tour. Most of the tour players are tossing higher than they really have to, although there are some players now, especially on the men's side, who are now tossing just to the peak of their reach and their still hitting the ball a buck 40, consistently a buck 20. Remember if you hit it on the line at anything over 110, you've probably got an ace. Speed sometimes is not the issue with aces. It's more of the placement. There are many players now, you look on the ATP Tour, you've got the Brian brothers, you've got Alexander Dolgopolov, you've got Nick Kyrgios, Dustin Brow, not that well known, but he also just tosses to the peak of his reach. The reason the peak of the reach is better for you and even for pro players is very simple. See, when you toss the ball out of your reach ... Let's say right now the racket is to the peak of my reach on the serve right there, okay. The racket right now is at the peak of my reach. If I toss the ball [00:02:00] way up here, I have to wait for the ball to come down into my hitting zone, which is right here. Now, when the ball reaches the peak up here on a high toss, it starts to drop at the rate of gravity and it picks up speed as it's dropping. What happens is, by the time the ball reaches your hitting zone, the ball is moving fast, so it's going through your hitting zone very fast giving you actually less time to hit the ball. It's been proven by my mentor, Vic Braden, that when you toss to the peak of your reach, you actually have 10 times more time to hit the ball. Vic used to do that. He'd toss the ball just to the peak of his reach and smack it and he never looked rushed. He wasn't rushed because you have more time. The other thing about tossing just to the peak of the reach is that your motion does not tend to slow down. When you toss the ball way out of your reach and you see these guys going to all these trophy positions and everything, their racket is slowing down. In my opinion, when you serve you want that racket to be picking up speed. It's a continual motion where the racket is continually getting more and more speed, so at the moment of contact, you got the optimum speed. There's other reasons. When you toss the ball out of reach or too high, on windy days it makes it more difficult. I've been saying for years that Maria Sharapova needs to lower her toss. She double faults when she's under pressure with her serve. She doesn't have [00:04:00] the confidence she needs in that serve and I seriously think if she lowered the toss just to the peak of her reach, she'd get more confidence. She also needs how to develop more topspin with her serve, but that's another story. Anyway, the peak of the reach is where you want to toss. You don't want it too high, you don't want it too low, you want it just to the peak of your reach where you're stretched out and your racket is moving at optimum speed. There's a lot of guys out there now on the ATP Tour that are doing it and on the WTA I see some of the women are starting to do it as well. It's good to see this come around because even a small guy like Alexander Dolgopolov, he's 5'11, 157, his serve has topped out at 140. Okay. A small guy like that, I mean he's not that small, but hitting 140 and just with a toss to the peak of his reach. It proves that it works and that's the bottom line, results. Let me just demo a few and I'll show you. The thing you want to think of with a toss just to the peak of the reach, as soon as you let go of the ball, as soon as you let go as the toss is going up, keep your racket moving. Your racket's going to start swinging at the ball as soon as you let go so you can meet it right there at the peak of your reach when it stops for that millisecond in midair because when you toss to the peak of your reach, the ball reaches the peak, it stops for a millisecond there and starts to drop, but it's dropping slower here. It hasn't picked up speed. That's why it's actually in [00:06:00] your hitting zone 10 times longer. This is absolutely what I recommend for recreational players and tour players as well. You don't want it out of the reach. It makes it easier for you. Incoming keywords: tennis tennis serve tennis serve technique tennis serve toss tennis serve drills tennis serve slow motion tennis serve for beginners tennis serve grip Video URL:    • Tennis Serve - How High Should The Toss Be?