I went to tennis camp during summers in the 80s and loved it. Tennis is the greatest game to watch in my opinion and Pete is my all time favorite player. His serve was the most dominant weapon in the history of the game but he also had one of the greatest forehands of all time as well. His serve and volley game was so great he looked like a magician out there.
@@charleslynn3937 Funny. I wanted to make a similar comment but about 3:14. Watch the left to right elbow action. That and keeping the right elbow hooked after contact combined make the secret (for me at least). Simply amazing! I have been trying to use Sampras' mechanics in my own serve. It helps my server very very well although I tend to occasionally "miss a step" in the serve mechanics from time to time (hahaha). Still discovering the essence / core of Pete's magical superior serve motion every time, still :)
@@rsan1704 It gets body motion moving forward and the hip is a point of flexion for the back musculature (and lower torso). Hip movement can serve to direct the serve, too, and be used to 'read' your (amateur) opponent's serve.
Alot to see here. I don't see modern coaches teaching this. Pete uses hips for torque, and really let's that racquet wind up behind vs stay elevated in higher position which is what I see now. I twist turn and use hips for added torque and let the racquet wind fully back before I swing for maximum force. You'll see Pete have the racquet more on his back vs side which is what I see being taught now.
Sampras combined a lot of pace with extreme spin (similar to the Nadal forehand), with his serve. Brilliant placement, as well. He had a very flexible shoulder and back in his serving motion, on top of this.
@@amateurgardener9300 I have to agree on this one. Sampras' serve effective and very beautiful to behold. Nadal's FH... effective, yes, beautiful... not so much.
@@urosraskovic7730maybe prime Nadal could - Nadal towards the end had too many injuries - he had to alter his serve motion to prevent further injuries and lost some mph and spin as a result
After losing to Sampras at Wimbledon Courier said it was like facing 2 first serves every point. Had the majors been played on same courts as they were in Laver’s era Pete would’ve had 20+ majors at 30 years old.
what powers sampras' serve is the quick upper body rotation. His toes are no longer touching the ground upon impact. The jump provides the boost to enable the body to deliver the angular momentum needed for that quick rotation of the torso. Ball travels toward the direction where the body rotation stops. The same direction where the racket prones after the hit or where the body faces after hitting. This torso rotation means the ball is carried mid-air by 30 to 45 degrees from it's original position in the right side of the body's axis to the front before it leaves contact with the racket strings. This means the ball has milliseconds longer contact with the racket, as opposed to a direct hit or chop, without the body rotation. This allows for more accurate transfer of force and torque that sends the ball spinning so fast, it warps its surface and spherical shape momentarily, making the bouncing trajectory difficult to predict. From what I remember in health science and physiology, that tiny jump frees the spine from the weight of the entire musculoskeletal column of the body, that which it is supporting. This momentary weightlessness between spinal contact points or vertebral disks, enables the torso to turn or rotate lightning fast, as opposed to when the pull of gravity is engaged on the vertebral disks, like when the feet are grounded. The same torso and shoulder rotation techniques will be observed on sports that require efficient delivery of force from the arms and hands, like the strokes in swimming and the punches in boxing. It's not all about the extremities, the real power is in the axis itself--the body, the core; most specifically, the vertebral column. The speed at which it can rotate, translates to the amount of force the hands can deliver.
I don't know if I'd teach it cuz tbh d toss is rather high though bcz of Sampras unbelievable coordination he's able 2 place d ball exactly where he wants. So what can I say? This is pure talent!
Pete had The Greatest Serve of All Time! Both First and Second! Just ask Andre Agassi. The Best Returner up to Then. He Faced it Enough! Tell Me Who was Better?
His serve will never be replicated again. Its between borris becker, edberg and john mcenroe. Its incredible to see. The Williams sister tried to copy Sampras serve. During their jrs and beginning pro days, the would run down and watch Sampras play and practice. I was there and seen them.
@@laurencecorray : this is the best way naturally to create power and spin than wrist snap (95% other pros are using this type that can make only power, a litle spin).
If my life was on the line and Pete Sampras had to hold serve to save my life I’d feel laughingly comfortable. Tough and Tremendously deceptive serve. Could hit any part of the box from a varying toss.
@ Michelez …wrong. Sometimes he tossed further over his head having you think he was going to kick it but then he would go through it more. I should know. I played him in the juniors.
Just a freak's serve, backed up with the most all-round game ever, forehand, running forehand, best ever overhead, volleys upto Edberg level, deceivingly good backhand, best physique, mental toughness, speed, aura, best behaviour, slam dunks, at age 19 becoming the US champ, finishing with a slam win at US Open... no tennis player ever did so. At his peak no player comes close
Well spotted. I wonder why he does that. Perhaps the loose grip allows him to relax his wrist as he makes the whip action with the racquethead. Perhaps he re-grips at the moment of contact to add extra power, like a karate punch.
He loosen the grip at this moment to have the racket drop to the lowest position in the next second without any effort of bending the wrist. This creates the longest path for the racket to accelerate before impact. Notice he tighten up the grip during racket acceleration toward impact (it would be hard to steer the racket toward the target with a loose grip on the handle).
Imho it is actually a bad habit for youngsters to change the grip at that point. I doubt Sampras changes the grip, it is hard to spot a difference before and after. As an ex pro player myself, the raquet grip has the tendency to flatten out at that point, so if you change your grip there, your kick/slice potential reduces, and also your spin control goes down the drain. I used to do it maybe for 100% flat serves, which are not recommended anyway, so stay away from it :) I agree that it has more to do with "punching power". So my advice: relax the grip at that point, but dont change it, then grip hard trought contact, then relax again.
Give Djokovic Sampras’s serve he would probably have 45 Grand Slam titles. Sampras by far has the best serve of all time super consistent 136mph-140mph range while having a super high first serve percentage and always aced when he needed too.
Legs = power. No sit-down & bounce = no power. Power is not everything but it does establish your presence on the court. If you try to generate power from wrist or forearm or shoulder - you risk injury. Try a mini-bounce on a 60% effort flat serve - you'll be amazed at the power boost. A top player combines bounce with torso twist & hip-flex is also used. The bio-mechanics are explained in Laver's book 'How to play winning tennis'.
Pete was 30 years ahead in serve, close to a pinpoint serve with all serve techniques. After peter, players serve with same technique including racket and pronation, but not near to pinpoint serve, including Federer. Moreover, now only the next gen players having pinpoint serve with racket drop and pronation. You may think 30 years is over exaggerated, Sampras became pro in 1990, so atleast 5 years before he would hv started learning this type of serve.
It’s interesting how he keeps his wrist pronated into the loop. Roger Federer does the same thing. Would make for a flatter serve but makes you drop the wrist. Where’s my hopper?....
Thanks for the video. I don't know if he has more variety than Federer. I don't even recall him ever serving a kick serve. All of his second serves were slices or flat serves. He was so good at placing these serves into the body or down the T that he won a lot of points on his second serve. If you have some slow motion video of him serving a kicker, I would love to see it. I do remember him playing Fed and Fed served him a kicker that completely knocked him out of his socks and had him talking to himself. Was funny.
I have seen Sampras use the kick serve on plenty of occasions. Check him playing on Clay . Also, Sampras used to use the combination of slice and kick as his stock second serve. This type of spin gives lots off control when placing the ball in service box. That's my opinion
Are you talking about the Wimbledon match? That's the only one that counts, his exhibitions with Federer was well into retirement, out of shape, passed his prime, different tech.
As someone who has studied all of the great serve and volleyers going back to the great serves of Tilden, Kramer, Gonzales , Laver, Tanner,Ivanisovic, Roddick, Karlovic, Isner and Federer. Tennis professionals typically agree Pete Sampras has the most efficient and productive serve motion of all time. His fluid motion, balance and ability to get into positions such as his racquet drop and “snap” that mere mortals cannot achieve. During an exhibition match in Beijing, China against a 28 yr. old Federer, versus a 36 yr. old Sampras, retired from tennis for 5 yrs. using a generation old Federer racquet, Sampras outserved Federer easily and won the match 6-4 6-3 hitting a fastest serve of 142 and “heavy”. It hit on the T and Federer couldn’t even flinch. Federer was unable to break Sampras’ serve once. Sampras finished off Federer with a 112 mph second kick serve. The serve was so “heavy” with so much kick spin it weakly spun off Federer’s racquet and landed 4 ft. wide. Can you imagine what Sampras could do with today’s modern cannons when he was 25! Btw, Sampras also could put his serve on a dime, and during the entire 1990s , before his back injuries, he won 92% of his service games. Case closed.
Sampras's second serve does not have as much kick as other players but his second is neither much slower than his first as well. Yet his second serve not only reliable but most importantly that many recipients find that just as offensive as his first serve.
Babolat Pure Storm. I don’t know which exact model (GT or other), but I know there is a clip around somewhere where he is casually talking to the other senior players and you hear him respond “pure storm” when someone asks him a question. It’s been discontinued for a long time now. The next closest thing would probably be a Babolat Pure Strike VS or Tour model.
@@OneAdam12Adam He used the pro staff for his pro career. This video is from an exhibition long after he retired. Educate yourself or live in blindness. You can clearly see that this racquet head is larger than the 85 square inch pro staff, the beam is thicker, and there is no pws at 3 and 9. In this video Pete Sampras is using a babolat pure storm in a blackout paint job.
@@OneAdam12Adam Not lies. The OP asked what Sampras was using in this video in 2014, not what he used in his career. I was at this match against Agassi, at the now defunkt Earls Court Arena in London.
You are only as good as your second serve, and while you can make the argument that many taller players have a better first serve than Sampras, none could match his second serve.
One bounce. One look. One serve. And prepared for whatever is coming back at him. Unlike DJOKO who takes bounces, per serve, invariably has another go, takes the maximum allowable time, and stays on the baseline. I could watch Pete all day long. And the "modern game" has become so dull. Corner to corner, unforced error. Somewhat predictable!
if you want to isolate the serve as a single stroke, then hold% doesn't tell the story, because what you do behind your serve strongly affects hold%. Rublev holds serve very dominantly, for example, but he definitely doesn't have an abnormally good serve...he has an abnormally good forehand, so any advantage he gets from his serve is very consistently converted into a won point. End of the day, there doesn't exist a single stat that could tell you who has the more effective serve of all time. it's basically just opinion. even if you tried to combine many stats, there is opinion based judgement involved in determine which stats to choose and how to weight them.
@@Skiiiiiifreeeeeee if you want to judge the whole service game, then yeah. but if you want to judge specifically the serve itself as a stroke, then this metric can't tell that story. what you would need is a metric that attempts to average together how often returners fail to get the return in play, make a weak return, make a neutral return, or make a strong return. there is no objective metric that can do this.
@@Skiiiiiifreeeeeee yes I mostly agree with you. It's possible we might have a disagreement as to whether improvements to serve stats can be completely attributed to improvements to technology, but such details aren't really the main focus of this comment thread I think.
It's never completely flat. At the very last moment between contact, Pete's forehand pronation can either be small (creating one of his most lethal serve: the slice serve from the even side), medium with the racket face 45° toward the ground (creating a brutal kick serve), exaggerated (creating a twist serve where the ball changes direction after the bounce). Mix all of the above with the tremendous momentum he was able to create with his perfect biomechanic motion, then you have a wide variety of fast serve that the returner has a hard time handling even if he gets to the ball.
You will begin to understand why the Sampras serve stood out and was superior to his peers and players who came after him. He got more spin on his serves at pace than his opponents. Plus more swing which usually left handers get. A study during the 1998 US Open showed that some of his serves upwards of 120 mph had almost 4000rpms. Which is frankly an astonishing number of rpms. The ball was constantly moving away from his opponents in both deuce and ad courts. Hence the talk of deception on his serve. Sampras' serve at 131 mph had more bite than a guy serving at 145 flat out. Once you get used to pace as a professional, easier to return. Harder to return spin and deceptive deliveries.
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I went to tennis camp during summers in the 80s and loved it. Tennis is the greatest game to watch in my opinion and Pete is my all time favorite player. His serve was the most dominant weapon in the history of the game but he also had one of the greatest forehands of all time as well. His serve and volley game was so great he looked like a magician out there.
7:56. Pause and observe how he leads with the elbow of his serving arm. This one step can add miles to your serve
If you really slow it down at 7:57 or so, you can literally see his skin compress under the rapid snap that’s about to happen
@@charleslynn3937 Funny. I wanted to make a similar comment but about 3:14. Watch the left to right elbow action. That and keeping the right elbow hooked after contact combined make the secret (for me at least). Simply amazing! I have been trying to use Sampras' mechanics in my own serve. It helps my server very very well although I tend to occasionally "miss a step" in the serve mechanics from time to time (hahaha). Still discovering the essence / core of Pete's magical superior serve motion every time, still :)
So fluid! He really leans in with his left hip
My coach suggested I do the same. What’s the benefit?
@@rsan1704 It allows for better hip or torso rotation. More power on your serve.
@@rsan1704 It gets body motion moving forward and the hip is a point of flexion for the back musculature (and lower torso). Hip movement can serve to direct the serve, too, and be used to 'read' your (amateur) opponent's serve.
Alot to see here. I don't see modern coaches teaching this. Pete uses hips for torque, and really let's that racquet wind up behind vs stay elevated in higher position which is what I see now. I twist turn and use hips for added torque and let the racquet wind fully back before I swing for maximum force. You'll see Pete have the racquet more on his back vs side which is what I see being taught now.
pete leans with his hip if hes going to serve and volley
Is Sampras the greatest server of all time?
Yes!
Yes
not even close. maybe the best player to ever utilize the serve.
Sure with valley
hands down
Sampras combined a lot of pace with extreme spin (similar to the Nadal forehand), with his serve. Brilliant placement, as well. He had a very flexible shoulder and back in his serving motion, on top of this.
Sampras’s serve a work of art. On the other hand, Nadal’s forehand is a freak of nature. Not even close.
True. It was the perfect blend of pace and spin, coupled with placement (and disguise). Honestly pretty much the perfect serve if there ever was one.
I wonder if Nadal can use Sampras' serve technique since they are the same height.
@@amateurgardener9300 I have to agree on this one. Sampras' serve effective and very beautiful to behold.
Nadal's FH... effective, yes, beautiful... not so much.
@@urosraskovic7730maybe prime Nadal could - Nadal towards the end had too many injuries - he had to alter his serve motion to prevent further injuries and lost some mph and spin as a result
love his whole game - the serve and his economical (sometimes shuffling) movement around the court
100%
One of the best athletes to ever play tennis
That's one beautiful service motion!
yes, PETE SAMPRAS IS, and also graceful body movements.
First time I saw Sampras play, the thing I noticed at once was his graceful movement round the court.
After losing to Sampras at Wimbledon Courier said it was like facing 2 first serves every point. Had the majors been played on same courts as they were in Laver’s era Pete would’ve had 20+ majors at 30 years old.
Pete's movement of shoulder over shoulder is perfect and I believe it is the source of his effortless and precision!
what powers sampras' serve is the quick upper body rotation. His toes are no longer touching the ground upon impact. The jump provides the boost to enable the body to deliver the angular momentum needed for that quick rotation of the torso. Ball travels toward the direction where the body rotation stops. The same direction where the racket prones after the hit or where the body faces after hitting. This torso rotation means the ball is carried mid-air by 30 to 45 degrees from it's original position in the right side of the body's axis to the front before it leaves contact with the racket strings. This means the ball has milliseconds longer contact with the racket, as opposed to a direct hit or chop, without the body rotation. This allows for more accurate transfer of force and torque that sends the ball spinning so fast, it warps its surface and spherical shape momentarily, making the bouncing trajectory difficult to predict.
From what I remember in health science and physiology, that tiny jump frees the spine from the weight of the entire musculoskeletal column of the body, that which it is supporting. This momentary weightlessness between spinal contact points or vertebral disks, enables the torso to turn or rotate lightning fast, as opposed to when the pull of gravity is engaged on the vertebral disks, like when the feet are grounded. The same torso and shoulder rotation techniques will be observed on sports that require efficient delivery of force from the arms and hands, like the strokes in swimming and the punches in boxing. It's not all about the extremities, the real power is in the axis itself--the body, the core; most specifically, the vertebral column. The speed at which it can rotate, translates to the amount of force the hands can deliver.
just understand this, in form sampras reached wimbledon final 7 times, won EVERY FINAL
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The most relaxed serve in the world.
I don't know if I'd teach it cuz tbh d toss is rather high though bcz of Sampras unbelievable coordination he's able 2 place d ball exactly where he wants. So what can I say? This is pure talent!
No doubt about that best serve in history
Greatest, and smoothest, serve motion in the history of tennis!!! :)
I love Pete serve but the smoothiest is Roger Federer
@@understandinglife2481 no way. we are talking about serve
Pete had The Greatest Serve of All Time! Both First and Second! Just ask Andre Agassi. The Best Returner up to Then. He Faced it Enough! Tell Me Who was Better?
Why the question mark?😂😂😂😂😂
Best second serve of all time.
I think so. So clutch. Almost perfect placement
Anche secondo me
Il suo rimane un movimento perfetto è ancora moderno è molto efficace
My fav player growing up
No, the best tennis player of all time...💪❤
Thank you for this! Do you have one on him when he was younger?
His serve will never be replicated again. Its between borris becker, edberg and john mcenroe. Its incredible to see. The Williams sister tried to copy Sampras serve. During their jrs and beginning pro days, the would run down and watch Sampras play and practice. I was there and seen them.
I have seen the Williams sisters on TV saying they watched Sampras and tried to copy his serve.
@michelez715 Wow. Never knew they said it. Those girls ran to watch Sampras serve. I worked at the US Open from 1997-2000
@michelez715 alao wanted to mention sampras ball toss was so consistent.
I think the extreme wrist snap is what makes his serve so special compared to other players'
Agreed, it's all about the pronation
There is no wrist snap, more of a “arm snap”!
Right, no wrist snap, it's a rotation of his arm.
@@laurencecorray : this is the best way naturally to create power and spin than wrist snap (95% other pros are using this type that can make only power, a litle spin).
If my life was on the line and Pete Sampras had to hold serve to save my life I’d feel laughingly comfortable. Tough and Tremendously deceptive serve. Could hit any part of the box from a varying toss.
I think his serve was difficult to read because he DIDN'T vary the toss.
@ Michelez …wrong. Sometimes he tossed further over his head having you think he was going to kick it but then he would go through it more. I should know. I played him in the juniors.
Easily the best serve in history
Federer too. At prime.
@@halna5602not even close (for the serve part of the game, of course).
Roddick way better
Lol, Roddick was fast and powerful but that's it. @@sawgames8623
@@sawgames8623 u know nothing
Absolutely
Not a question. It’s the best serve of the modern era
Remove the question mark. Put a fullstop pls
この肩の可動域の広さは異常レベルだな！？
of course it is))
wow. how can his body bend like archery? so amazing
Biomechanically perfect
Can you please breakdown the Boris Becker serve?
Just a freak's serve, backed up with the most all-round game ever, forehand, running forehand, best ever overhead, volleys upto Edberg level, deceivingly good backhand, best physique, mental toughness, speed, aura, best behaviour, slam dunks, at age 19 becoming the US champ, finishing with a slam win at US Open... no tennis player ever did so. At his peak no player comes close
He lifts off his pinky, ring and maybe even middle fingers when he goes into trophy pose. Amazing.
Well spotted. I wonder why he does that. Perhaps the loose grip allows him to relax his wrist as he makes the whip action with the racquethead. Perhaps he re-grips at the moment of contact to add extra power, like a karate punch.
He loosen the grip at this moment to have the racket drop to the lowest position in the next second without any effort of bending the wrist. This creates the longest path for the racket to accelerate before impact. Notice he tighten up the grip during racket acceleration toward impact (it would be hard to steer the racket toward the target with a loose grip on the handle).
WTF you're right! Didn't see it before. I wonder if other players do the same...
Imho it is actually a bad habit for youngsters to change the grip at that point. I doubt Sampras changes the grip, it is hard to spot a difference before and after. As an ex pro player myself, the raquet grip has the tendency to flatten out at that point, so if you change your grip there, your kick/slice potential reduces, and also your spin control goes down the drain. I used to do it maybe for 100% flat serves, which are not recommended anyway, so stay away from it :) I agree that it has more to do with "punching power". So my advice: relax the grip at that point, but dont change it, then grip hard trought contact, then relax again.
Many top level badminton players loosen their grip like that in the trophy position before smashing. Relaxed means quick (and whip-like) :)
That's the flashiest shoe/outfit I've ever seen Sampras wear.
Yes...this makes more sense to me than Roger's serve
Give Djokovic Sampras’s serve he would probably have 45 Grand Slam titles. Sampras by far has the best serve of all time super consistent 136mph-140mph range while having a super high first serve percentage and always aced when he needed too.
Legs = power. No sit-down & bounce = no power. Power is not everything but it does establish your presence on the court. If you try to generate power from wrist or forearm or shoulder - you risk injury. Try a mini-bounce on a 60% effort flat serve - you'll be amazed at the power boost. A top player combines bounce with torso twist & hip-flex is also used. The bio-mechanics are explained in Laver's book 'How to play winning tennis'.
Pete's serve: 2nd best weapon in the history of sports
Ok... What's number one❓
@@shanelawson5072 Michael Jordan's turnaround fadeaway
@@bslee82 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's skyhook jumps to my mind more quickly... On the basketball theme❗
@Shane Lawson Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s Sky Hook
its all about the left arm, he pulls it down and in, then the right arm is just along for the ride
the best
Yes
Pete was 30 years ahead in serve, close to a pinpoint serve with all serve techniques. After peter, players serve with same technique including racket and pronation, but not near to pinpoint serve, including Federer. Moreover, now only the next gen players having pinpoint serve with racket drop and pronation. You may think 30 years is over exaggerated, Sampras became pro in 1990, so atleast 5 years before he would hv started learning this type of serve.
This vid was shot after he retired, and he still looks like a big cat ready to pounce. No wonder players rarely beat him in his prime.
The best of the best ever...!!
It’s interesting how he keeps his wrist pronated into the loop. Roger Federer does the same thing. Would make for a flatter serve but makes you drop the wrist. Where’s my hopper?....
He didn't jump so high !
YES!
Best is subjective but it was persistent and effective.
He had a very heavy serve.. Not necessarily the fastest. And for his height of barely over 6ft..definitely the best.
Thanks for the video. I don't know if he has more variety than Federer. I don't even recall him ever serving a kick serve. All of his second serves were slices or flat serves. He was so good at placing these serves into the body or down the T that he won a lot of points on his second serve. If you have some slow motion video of him serving a kicker, I would love to see it. I do remember him playing Fed and Fed served him a kicker that completely knocked him out of his socks and had him talking to himself. Was funny.
I have seen Sampras use the kick serve on plenty of occasions. Check him playing on Clay . Also, Sampras used to use the combination of slice and kick as his stock second serve. This type of spin gives lots off control when placing the ball in service box. That's my opinion
Are you talking about the Wimbledon match? That's the only one that counts, his exhibitions with Federer was well into retirement, out of shape, passed his prime, different tech.
Are you high? Kick serves are all he did.
As someone who has studied all of the great serve and volleyers going back to the great serves of Tilden, Kramer, Gonzales , Laver, Tanner,Ivanisovic, Roddick, Karlovic, Isner and Federer. Tennis professionals typically agree Pete Sampras has the most efficient and productive serve motion of all time. His fluid motion, balance and ability to get into positions such as his racquet drop and “snap” that mere mortals cannot achieve. During an exhibition match in Beijing, China against a 28 yr. old Federer, versus a 36 yr. old Sampras, retired from tennis for 5 yrs. using a generation old Federer racquet, Sampras outserved Federer easily and won the match 6-4 6-3 hitting a fastest serve of 142 and “heavy”. It hit on the T and Federer couldn’t even flinch. Federer was unable to break Sampras’ serve once. Sampras finished off Federer with a 112 mph second kick serve. The serve was so “heavy” with so much kick spin it weakly spun off Federer’s racquet and landed 4 ft. wide. Can you imagine what Sampras could do with today’s modern cannons when he was 25! Btw, Sampras also could put his serve on a dime, and during the entire 1990s , before his back injuries, he won 92% of his service games. Case closed.
Sampras's second serve does not have as much kick as other players but his second is neither much slower than his first as well. Yet his second serve not only reliable but most importantly that many recipients find that just as offensive as his first serve.
Do you happen to know what type of racket was Sampras using when filmed for this video?
Babolat Pure Storm. I don’t know which exact model (GT or other), but I know there is a clip around somewhere where he is casually talking to the other senior players and you hear him respond “pure storm” when someone asks him a question. It’s been discontinued for a long time now. The next closest thing would probably be a Babolat Pure Strike VS or Tour model.
@@dustyroot4708 Lies. He used a Wilson Pro Staff. Made in St Vincent
@@OneAdam12Adam He used the pro staff for his pro career. This video is from an exhibition long after he retired. Educate yourself or live in blindness. You can clearly see that this racquet head is larger than the 85 square inch pro staff, the beam is thicker, and there is no pws at 3 and 9. In this video Pete Sampras is using a babolat pure storm in a blackout paint job.
@@OneAdam12Adam Not lies. The OP asked what Sampras was using in this video in 2014, not what he used in his career. I was at this match against Agassi, at the now defunkt Earls Court Arena in London.
The best under-pressure first server. Fed might as well sneaked in and underhand like Kyrgios to not lose in 2019.😸
Is earth round?
GOAT 🐐🐐🐐
I stopped watching tennis after Pete retired
The Best serve
Not even Federer reached that perfection and lethality
Love teniss
You are only as good as your second serve, and while you can make the argument that many taller players have a better first serve than Sampras, none could match his second serve.
Best serve in the history of the game
If i had the serve and vollying skills of sampras and agassis forehand and backhand taken early off course id rule atp 😂😂😂
One bounce. One look. One serve. And prepared for whatever is coming back at him.
Unlike DJOKO who takes bounces, per serve, invariably has another go, takes the maximum allowable time, and stays on the baseline.
I could watch Pete all day long. And the "modern game" has become so dull.
Corner to corner, unforced error. Somewhat predictable!
The Sampras-Agassi era was way better.
The top of the toss is cut off. Dude this is a serving video show the serve not the feet
Yes. Bar none
May be not the best, but at the time his service made more points then anyone other at any time !! This was one of inovation on tennis !!!
so, sampras had an open racket drop then, not on edge
Pancho Gonzales had the best serve of all time.
In my eyes, smoothest, yes. But fastest or most effective? Not sure, need to check atp players' serve hold % ranking, no?
if you want to isolate the serve as a single stroke, then hold% doesn't tell the story, because what you do behind your serve strongly affects hold%. Rublev holds serve very dominantly, for example, but he definitely doesn't have an abnormally good serve...he has an abnormally good forehand, so any advantage he gets from his serve is very consistently converted into a won point.
End of the day, there doesn't exist a single stat that could tell you who has the more effective serve of all time. it's basically just opinion. even if you tried to combine many stats, there is opinion based judgement involved in determine which stats to choose and how to weight them.
@@Skiiiiiifreeeeeee if you want to judge the whole service game, then yeah. but if you want to judge specifically the serve itself as a stroke, then this metric can't tell that story. what you would need is a metric that attempts to average together how often returners fail to get the return in play, make a weak return, make a neutral return, or make a strong return. there is no objective metric that can do this.
@@Skiiiiiifreeeeeee yes I mostly agree with you. It's possible we might have a disagreement as to whether improvements to serve stats can be completely attributed to improvements to technology, but such details aren't really the main focus of this comment thread I think.
Fast serve.😉😗😁
No, Ivanisevic topped him.
14 vs 1 slam says otherwise
Ivanisevic was not consistent. Sampras was.
Sure
It's completely flat, isn't it? No spin on it whatsoever? Please share what you think.
It's never completely flat.
At the very last moment between contact, Pete's forehand pronation can either be small (creating one of his most lethal serve: the slice serve from the even side), medium with the racket face 45° toward the ground (creating a brutal kick serve), exaggerated (creating a twist serve where the ball changes direction after the bounce).
Mix all of the above with the tremendous momentum he was able to create with his perfect biomechanic motion, then you have a wide variety of fast serve that the returner has a hard time handling even if he gets to the ball.
You will begin to understand why the Sampras serve stood out and was superior to his peers and players who came after him. He got more spin on his serves at pace than his opponents. Plus more swing which usually left handers get. A study during the 1998 US Open showed that some of his serves upwards of 120 mph had almost 4000rpms. Which is frankly an astonishing number of rpms. The ball was constantly moving away from his opponents in both deuce and ad courts. Hence the talk of deception on his serve.
Sampras' serve at 131 mph had more bite than a guy serving at 145 flat out. Once you get used to pace as a professional, easier to return. Harder to return spin and deceptive deliveries.
Roddick has the best serve of all time, no doubts
No. Sampras by a mile. It's not just about speed.
Is same like rojer fererer
Yes