What You Can Learn From the Ace Queen | Karolina Pliskova Serve Technique
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
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In today's video, I analyze of the best serves in WTA history, Karolina Pliskova.
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El saque de KARO, es sencillo y potente, con poco movimiento, como nos tiene acostumbrado ella, incluso la tildan de vaga.. Pero es su juego y le da resultados, corrige mucho con el brazo,. 👍👏
This was me copying atp serves. Once I started trying wta emulation, a lot of my fundamental issues resolved naturally. I tried plenty of them, even Gorges lol, but play the most consistent with Igas. It just worked for me. I’m a pretty athletic 4.0 who probably could manage some of the atp motions but why force things that aren’t necessary at the rec level.
in general women often have purer technique in most sports. why? because they dont have the physicall power to brute force technical mistakes, so they have to perfect it more to get an edge
Nick, I had a Kyrgios-like rocking motion in the past (big leg separation) on my pinpoint serve. Yes bigger coil but guess what, I had a leftward approach to the ball because I couldn't get out of the big coil like you said in the video. And unfortunately there are many coaches on the internet preaching this "big coil/shoulder turn, chest facing backfence" theory 😷
Now I have just small leg separation before the serve starts, and hence the coil is much smaller (elbow to the trunk instead of behind the trunk). the serve is much cleaner and faster than the old big-coil serve. I am pretty young (below 30 years old) and go to the gym a lot, yet my fitness can't help me get out of the big coil, let alone older players with more physical limitation. Your experience, observation and understanding of the game across all levels is second-to-none!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you Mark. Glad your serve is working better 💯
Going to the gym a lot won’t necessarily help (and may hinder) getting out of a big coil explosively… Building up those Type I fibers (primarily through plyometric exercises and training) might get you the ability to use more of your potential coil, but obviously this might not be an investment you think is worth making (although it’s worth noting that Type I fibers are durable into middle/later age, and I believe also are highly protective in old age against injuries/poor mobility/etc)… and I suppose it may conflict with your other sport/fitness goals too.
Thanks for recognizing incredibla WTA players! 💕
Always love watching Karolina Pliskova play. Happy to see her winning another title.
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After her injury in 2022, she should have played 250 level matches in the beginning to gain confidence, instead of 500 snd 1000 levels. That was her and sascha bajin s mistake
So happy you made this video! Thanks!
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Great vid. I’m happy Pliskova is getting some good results again after a difficult few years. For a long time she and Svitolina were the two best players to have not yet won a slam. Would love to see her make one more deep run at a major again. She’s certainly the Ace Queen.
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Nick could you analyse Swiatek serve - she has changed the movement this season
Will do
Wow - such scholarly detail✓
Great video. Brian Gordon did research on this and he said there is an acceptable margin of "error", and it is OK to be up to 20 degrees below the shoulder line with the elbow. Any more than that and it starts to affect the way a player comes out of the trophy position. Karolina is well within that margin, as per your first video of her at 4:22 (camera angles can be extremely deceptive, as per the one you used to demonstrate the low elbow). Check out what Tsitsipas does with his elbow as he launches from trophy - it really does hurt just to watch, and yet he has a bomb but that must be biomechanically wrong.
Love Pliskova, don't care if she's never won a major, deserves much respect and admiration.
Well done, enjoyed this.
This list was interesting. I completely agree with you!
Firstly, no one besides Rybakina has even one slam on that list… which to me to my second realization…
Serena’s is the greatest server not simply for the aces but her ability to serve well at will. I would be very interested to see a stat about number of aces when facing break point or serving out a big match.
Technically, serena is also versatile, she has a decent kick second serve, and can hit flat or slice. Everything ive said about serena I feel the same about roger, who is an amazing spot server. When it comes to greatness of the serve, its not gonna be about who aces the most or hits the hardest, and thats why I wouldn’t even put plsikova in the same box as serena when it comes to serving.
Great detailed analysis... Thanks.
Me gusta Karolina, tiene buena mentalidad en la cancha, su juego es sencillo y potente, empezo el ano con buenos triunfos en continuado, espero que tenga un buen ano y suba en el ranking. ❤❤
Serve practice is a lot of fun! Great video Nick. 😀😀
Thank you
This was a great watch, thanks for the content 🎉
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Great video on serves. While I agree with your general comments about copying ATP strokes, I am not sure I agree with your logic on WTA serve. While ATP pros are freaky athletic and not really copyable, I think WTA players are freaky athletic in their own ways. Pliskova's elbow is way above her wrist when serving. I don't know any rec players, male or female, has that kind of flexibility to build the lag.
Thanks!
If Goggle is even close, Goggle says that Karolina and Serena can hit almost 130 on their flats. I see most recreational players struggle to return serves in the 70s or 80s. If Karolina can hit the angles correctly, I wonder what is the minimum speed she can earn an ace against a WTA returner? (The rec speeds were from a PlaySight system.)
Though I believe Pliskova and Serena may have reached 130mph serves, I think their higher consistent speeds are closer to 122mph. Thinking on angles, I've seen aces at 90mph in WTA with angles (mostly slices), while I've also seen aces at 100mph in ATP. Both are not the norm but they happen.
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What do you think of rublev's serve Nik? To me it looks very simple and clean.
Very clean and simple 💯
100% more aces. 50% will be 750. Great video, Nick! Love you content on wta too
I stand corrected 💯
@@IntuitiveTennis so twice as many aces. Even more spectacular
Nik Serena is Eastern on serve. Can you tell us why and also why this makes her so great at serving..? Cheers.
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I was really intrigued about Pliskova and Rybakina's match at the Aussie Open last month. Two players of a similar height, their games virtually mirroring each other. Movement is about the same but I think Rybakina has a better transition game. This lack of quality net play hurt Pliskova and prevented her winning a major title. Her movement was suspect so she needed more than hitting hard from the baseline.
I loved the contrast on their serves. Almost a passing of the torch. But what intrigued me was Pliskova's more classic service motion, and Rybakina's more modern abbreviated service motion. Personally I prefer the classic motion because it looks nicer and smoother if done well.
Whereas Patrick Rafter, Andy Roddick, Ben Shelton, Rybakina etc etc etc, their serves are effective but not as nice to look at over and over again.
1:04 she had a baby?? I'm sure that will be news to Karolina. Actually, she had a left wrist injury while gym training. I think it happened in Spain, but I cant be sure on that. In fact, many of the videos here are shot on the newly redeveloped court 5 (and 6 and 7) at the Bel-Air tennis center in Cancelada, Malaga, Spain.
he meant you were the baby bro
Her sister Krystina had a baby, got it mixed up
@@sexbuffet thanks, guanbino.
If you copy serving motion i reckon you have to copy similar body type and maybe racket. Nick kyrgios you have to be tall thin with long arms
Nice analysis, I'd prefer learning from Rybakina's serve, I think hers is statically better(more ACEs), and really kick.
can you show how to learn rybakina serve
Who knows the racket Nick Using in videos i very like it
Looks like the Solinco Whiteout.
Please make bird's eye view of strokes and serves. This would help our learning tremendously.
Whats the aces/double-faults ratio..? First serves in ratio..?
Krystina P had beautiful serve Even better than Serena or Sis problem with her, is that she made even Karolina look fast. Saw her win first 12-14 points vs Sara Errani before Sara started to drop shot every point Tennis hard game when your slow, I know :(
After her injury in 2022, she should have played 250 level matches in the beginning to gain confidence, instead of 500 snd 1000 levels. That was her and sascha bajin s mistake
It was going so well, you were giving a detailed synopsis about Karolina, and then by the end you're complimenting her sister Krystina saying her serve is perfect! Karolina would not be too happy about the end there :-0 😂
I'm old school and have a Roscoe Tanner service motion. It's a great simple motion. I only wish it was as fast as Roscoe's!
Erik Korita was considered great server but never went far
Ash Barty has the best serve for her size
Karolina Pliskova has lower toss now
Nah I'll just keep copying Kyrgios while looking like a uncoordinated toddler falling down the stairs
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It’s fun!
The text says "Krystina Pliskova" at the end of the video.
Yes, Karolinas sister which the video points out has a cleaner motion.
Got it! Thanks.
Serena's stats should all get the HGH asterisk.
Oh really. Not this tired argument. WHERE IS YOUR PROOF TROLL?
@@jamiedisu727 look at her early career physique and compare to Bonds and Sosa early. 🤔🤔
Those guys catch flack because they’re jerks. Serena gets a pass because she’s generally a really cool person.
she's 5 inches taller than me so i can't really emulate her
Serena could put her weight into it.
1000 is 100% more than 500. Interesting that you didn’t note one of the key features of her serve technique that differentiates her from other servers. She doesn’t pronate/long axis rotate past contact. This probably improves her accuracy. It can be a problem for rec players because it can be a symptom of holding on, but it demonstrates that long axis rotation past contact is not an absolute in the tennis serve. BTW, Serena and Kyrgios tend to be mixed, sometimes they do have long axis rotation past contact and sometimes they don’t. JMO, they vary it depending on how much they are trying to hit a spot.
@@bournejason66 Obviously you don’t know when the racquet drop occurs. I don’t believe he even shows Karolina’s racquet drop in this clip. Max racquet drop occurs when the player is driving up on the serve and right as the player leaves the ground. It is the moment of max shoulder external rotation as the racquet drops behind the serving shoulder. He does show his racquet drop at 6:58 with the wrist fully extended and you do see Kristyna’s racquet drop at the very end with the wrist fully extended.
@@bournejason66 Yep it is there and if you look closely enough despite the poor camera angle you can see that her wrist is fully extended. Here’s one from a good camera angle in very slow motion. Her extended wrist is very obvious. ua-cam.com/users/shorts0mREez-ynyw?si=IG9xAGy2SG6yGPdL