How To Break More Serves (Even If Your Returns SUCK)
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- Hey everyone - regardless of the level you’re playing at, returns of serve are one of the most difficult aspects of the game. You can win the point if you can’t even put the ball in play.
I’ve used this strategy numerous times - and it really works!
This video was previously posted a while ago, but we thought it could be helpful for more people now that we have a larger audience. Hope you enjoy it! - Спорт
I just played a 4.0 game this morning vs a 6’2 player with monster serves. He got me 6:3 on first set. I tried to apply this strategy, won the second set， and dragged match into tie breaker, and I won the match! I so appreciate this! Please keep posting!
That’s awesome to hear! Well done on digging deep and getting the win. Thanks for sharing that with us 👍🏼👍🏼
Hah I remeber doing something like this as a junior. I would stand two feet from the serive line and then run back on toss to a more reasonable position but still would change up where I ended up. Servers frequently thought they had a tell in their service motion and it got in their heads.
That's a great tip. I've been doing that instinctively but to come across a vid that explains it makes me realise how effective it has been.
Thank you for the video! I was playing against an opponent with a pretty good first serve in the local ladder tournament today, after watching your video a couple of days ago. I followed your tip from the very beginning and felt pretty confident about my returns. I ended up winning 8:0 (we are playing Pro sets), and even though I would have probably won even without following your tip, it definitely gave me extra confidence on serve returns. Thank you again, and I look forward to your new videos!
Great tip! I have tried it and it works but always keep forgetting to use it more often. Also, one more thing I have tried is moving aggressively to left or right after the ball has been tossed. This makes it difficult for the server to change his serve at the last moment and is probably unsettling if he catches this movement from the corner of his eye.
Great tip! I look forward to trying this out the next time I face a big server!
Jesus, this is such an amazing tip! Can't wait for my next league match to try it out! Thank you guys for your hard work. Obrigadão!
Well, it's better than my method of saying how I like the way they are serving. 😈
Genius.
@@chikoopandya I like the way you say genius.
@@darrensurrey thanks
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So SABR every return , no good ? 🙁
Thanks for this tip and reminder. I know when I serve if a player changes position on a big point it does make me pause mentally and think for a sec and I dont want to think...lol
I saw a special where Agassi explained his return movement towards the middle of the Box during the Server's windup. Then Andre has the momentum to carry on towards the centerline (for the Deuce side) or Lunge towards the right for the wide out. (using a plyometric force I believe it is with his Strength)
I am a tennis coach in Bangalore.
I used this trick of moving .to different areas while returning big serves during tournaments
It paid off for sure. Especially when I moved way back!
Thank you guys! Now we need help from you on how to be able to return from all those different places hahaha. As a defensive clay-court player, I place myself pretty far from the baseline and always hit a high ball . I guess it gets very obvius for the server sowill definitely try your tip next time. Cheers!
Thank you!
Thatt is spot on i have being doing this fir years never stand in one place keep on the move moving right moving left
Do hand signals to your opponent it mentally pushed him out keep moving your legs it make them tight mentally and physically you can do the same in doubles
I like to start to adjust my position just as they start their service motion to toss the ball. Also a great return of serve drill is to have some one serve to you while standing at the service line instead of the base line. This reduces your time to react like your returning against a big serve. Once you go back to returning a full court serve it seems like you have so much time.
0:10 Me applying to jobs with zero work experience and nothing to put on my resume
Lol
Great tip! Will be trying this out this week.
Let us know how it goes!
Depends on the server, like you said, this might work for big servers but a lot of really players are not big servers, they are consistent and crafty, but I think moving around should help get a sense of which side they are more comforable hitting to, and you can just block there and let them serve places where they are so good at.
I feel like at my skill level the server might not be paying very close attention to the position of the returner before serving but I will definitely give this a try post lockdown.
I also think returning close at the baseline puts unconscious pressure on the server in the same way that coming to net does.
I watched this yesterday and applied it today on a match at the club. It was just like Gui told! My opponent was in the zone, hitting flat services left and right. I usually have a very good return of service, but couldn’t make more than 2 points on his first couple service games. Than I started doing this and from them on, I broke his every single service game. Amazing tip! He tried to adjust ball positioning and even got 2 aces on the T, but he was missing more than not and with my usual advanced positioning on second services, he was forced into a bunch of double faults.
That’s awesome to hear. It’s crazy how simple it is and how effective it can be. Thanks for sharing that!
Thanks a lot! Will try this
Hey Guys...can you share your mindset/strategy on how to close out sets and matches?...last 2 tournaments I was leading 5-4 then lost 3 games in a row to lose sets...I understand its situational but would love your thoughts...thank you and keep up the great content.
I teach my students/players to not set up "telling" the server where you want to return from. I think showing them your deeper location opens up their slice, just like Karue experienced in this video (deuce wide). When the server tosses and then you move, you will get into their head far more than this and you will keep them wondering where you will be instead of showing them where you will be, which allows them to plan a manipulation on YOU.
Hey mate, your channel is reeeeally interesting tbh! I'm going to try this during my next match. But I have one question: do you recommend to try this tip from the beginning of the match or after few games? Usually I don't know how the other player serves because I'm meeting a new one every week.
Thanks a lot, keep making this awesome videos! 😎
Congrats from Spain
Thank you Mario! I’d recommend you first get a feel for how the player serves. I usually wait until about 2x2 or 3x3, as I will have a better idea at that point
@@KaruesellHQ dude! I have tried this tip as I told you. It's incredible how my 3 matches have changed at some point. At first I thought it was going to be effective around 60% of the times but I was amazed of how it worked for me! I did it when 2x2 and 3x3 as you told me and I broke all serves of my opponents. Just crazy man! I'm really grateful for this tip. Keep rocking in this channel!❤️
Great tips!
Oh man this is a golden tip thanks!
This tip is one of the bread and butter moves of a hacker. As a corollary, if you don’t have a big serve you will do better if you force the returner to move around. If you can make the returner take one step on the return you will do a lot better. My tips are more in tune with the recreational hacker player, but interested what the pro player thinks.
Really good tip thank you my friend
Thank you Gabriel!
Great tip, and a question: I noticed in the video that the returner varies his position forward and backwards, but does not change his side-to-side position. Why not?
That’s just the strategy he chose for that match - will depend on what the receiver prefers
Great tip! Interesting what high level tennis players think about during match play compared to the average Joe.
Thank you! 👍🏼👍🏼
Good video!! When a server stands up to the line, they are used to seeing a certain "picture", that being the "usual" spot where a receiver stands. From there they've normally assessed the where, what, and why of their serve. Once a receiver adjusts positions, and gives the server a different "picture", now the server has options. Do i go for the short kick out wide....etc etc. Once you're in their head, and once you make them think....the subconscious task has now become conscious. A good tactic.....server serving 4-5, advantage receiver, 2nd serve. Receiver stands on the centre mark. Server thinks...."should i go for it....or just serve centre box." Choice to be made.
Precisely - it works wonders (I have been on both ends of this strategy lol)
@@KaruesellHQ great channel guys!! Keep it going!!
I use that "trick" in doubles as well. I will modify where I, as the non returner, stand. Sometimes I will stand near the T then back off to the sideline on the second serve. you just need to understand that when the serve does get in, you will have to readjust.
I always give the server didn't look. Just the other day I was taking a wider lower stance ready to creep/split step and the guy didn't like seeing me going up and down in anticipation of contact on the ball. Had to ask me 3 x if I was ready. When people do this to me it doesn't even phase me. Stand on the service line if you want.
Damn, I've never thought to do this. Will try it.
Let us know how it goes
Do you mean we should move during the serve or be stationary during the serve but in different positions
You can attempt both and see what works better. Just stay mobile out there
It is very important and interesting video !!!!!!!
Very nice video, the mental dimension of tennis is a fascinating aspect of this sport. The video could have been turned the other way around, like "How not to be broken by sneaky returners (even if your serve is a killer)"... By adapting your serve calmly and varying the hitting spots and spins, in turn forcing the returner to adapt again and again and again... Power is only one dimension of a good serve.
Absolutely. Tennis is fun because of the mental games that can be played during the course of a match
Thats my chip in a nutshell... will be trying post-Lockdown, thanks
I wanna buy a new racket ,and I keep an eye on the head extreme 360 pro, the last years model .What do you think of it ,have you tried it or compared it to the new one?
I heard it got an erratic string bed.
@@ayayachon it depends on the string material polyester wont have this problem.But Im more concerned about the power ,since i hit heavy topspin with power with my current racket,but dont see any power coming out of it.Still the ball gets out of the court.If I buy this racket will my game be out of control or still be fine with a spin control oriented string
@@jacobzak9597 yea i face those too with my current racket, vcore 98. It produces a good spin but off center hits are awful. The racket wobbles like crazy. Ive been eyeing out on the extreme too, but im afraid if the stringbed will kill string fast like reviewers said.
@@ayayachon ro be honest i kept an eye on the vcore 98 but bc of ur opinion i think im gonna go for the extreme
Amazing tip
Very good idea
0:32 struggling to return long serves? Damn
It was pretty clearly in.
This does work. You start dictating to the server WHERE they will serve. You have taken free will away from them.
Great tip. I remember Wimb 99 mens final, Sampras was moving around when returning Agassi's serve. Agassi did ok at first but then his serve started to sit up a little and Sampras was able hit great returns and breaking him.
awesome! i should be changing then! 😂
The strategy you mention works at a certain level but with actual good servers it doesn't work because they actually know where the ball goes when they serve. If they see you very much at the T side, they will effectively ace you with an out wide serve 90% of the times. That's why professional players don't move around the spot where they return from, they stay at a spot where they have a higher chance to return it depending on the player and their return. Rafa, regardless of who he plays, most of the times likes to stay way back because he wants time to load his swing and get spin on the ball while Djokovic has amazing timing and most of the time stays 1-2 behind the baseline. Karue moved back and forth to change the time when Eubanks was going to get the ball back after the serve and even though he got some returns in, he got aced a lot. Karue's strategy was not to make Eubanks think and double fault but to affect reaction time after Eubanks served.
I agree that this won’t work with Nadal, Djokovic, or any other top 50 - but honestly I’m not really expecting them to watch our UA-cam tips. I’m not sure what you consider an “actual good server”, but I used this strategy playing at a high-level division 1 school (in the #1 spot) and futures tournaments and it worked. Yes, it might not work every time. Yes, you’ll still get aced. But all you need is ONE break of serve. And by making your opponent think, you’re maximizing your chances. What’s the alternative, after all? Sit there and watch yourself get aced time after time? I’ve tried that and it never really worked out in my favor.
@@KaruesellHQ Eubanks is a great server. 1500 ranked player is a good server too. That's my criteria. Nadal and Djokovic are only examples because people watch them but I watch ITF level tennis and trust me they don't use this strategy to get the player double fault as you mention in the video. Those players have mental fortitude to withstand a player changing locations in the return. The difference between Nadal and top 200 player is not huge. Dustin Brown is currently ranked 256 in the world and he beat Rafa in Wimbledon. Try using that strategy with Dustin and you'll get aced 1000 times, he will not double fault because you changed positions. At the UTR level you may bother a server but not an actual good server (pro level, any ranking in the ATP tour). I think we agree it's a good strategy but not for the same reasons it is a good strategy.
@@KaruesellHQ You must be a good player having been ranked 800! I still believe that the reason these guys use the strategy is to play with reaction time rather than confusing the server (maybe both). Notice Karue sell gets Eubanks on the return he comes close and makes him shank that ball, props to Karue who is an insanely good player.
Gracias
I also call it out, when other don't cause they might think the other player is superior. It's easier with player that have taken classes...they are so program.
You could re-make this video and mention how eubanks made it to the QF at wimbledon this year.
Who won the match? Karue or Chris?
Karue
@@KaruesellHQ Impressive
100k subs soon
Yup, use this tactic a lot ... and it works. Also, have them see you move before they turn to serve. They'll start thinking about what you're doing and not their serve. Love legal mind games
Hi brilliant! Such a great tip. And you've got 6.66k subscribers. And 66 comments. Does that make it an evil tip?! 🤣
Lol very evil for servers everywhere
Haven’t you guys published this video before?
He have - it’s in the description of the video. It was posted a long time ago so not many people had watched but we felt like it was a pretty valuable tip
Hey guys its coach greg
I love when a returner changes up his positioning and strategy. I feel like if they are not standing in their most comfortable position then it gives me a bigger opening to take advantage of them being out of position.
Já tinha visto esse aqui ehehhe
Brasil!!! Kkkkkk
Marcelo Ferreira must have been your coach
He was lol but he wasn’t the one to tell me that
Try that against John Isner
You’ll still have better chances of breaking him than standing in the same place over and over again
Sometimes just going for your towel and taking your time there, when the server is clearly ready, or pretending there's something on the ground, just deliberately delaying the game, to kill the opponent's flow, might work out as well.
Now, I know that's "cheating", but at least it's worth knowing it...
My return is the best part of my game so... i dont really connect to that
Too bad
For algorithm pt 2
Wow... and what did Gilbert order?
😂😂 he just had a sandwich
@@KaruesellHQ you guys are fun.
I have a serious question though. What really takes to improve one's technique? Repetition? Hours of videos? A teacher? A ball machine? Obsession? Like... generally speaking, how do I go from 3 to 3.5 to 4 and so on. I know there will be a point where cause age and lifestyle the pinnacle will be reached but what is it really? Sometimes I feel great about my improvements, some times I am ashamed of my game. I know it's only been 3 years since I picked up my first racquet up, but man it is hard to understand this sport.
Any way I am looking forward to have you both in the same video sometimes in the future
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