Oct 26, 2006 · The flat serve is a very different motion from the topspin or kick. That is why some people can hit huge flat serves, yet can't get topspin or kick. In your case it is the opposite. Here is the difference. On the flat serve you have to come into the ball like you are going to hit it with the frame of your racket.

Jul 10, 2008 · There is a difference between a flat and a slice serve, though they are both used for first seves. A flat serve is a serve that you try to hit with virtually no spin so that the total energy from the racket head is applied to the forward motion of the ball. Therefore it is a …

May 26, 2021 · I mentioned I briefly hit that serve, flat serve swing, a bit of knuckle ball spin, barely forward spin, and noticeable ball drop.....like a knuckleball. I used flat serve grip, slightly later than normal contact point. Naturally, I stopped tennis then in 1977 and spent 5 months on Oahu and got interested in motocross right after.

Oct 7, 2012 · Flat serve is a misnomer. Unless you're a gaint you need some spin to keep a "flat" serve in the court. Too often flat serves are hit...flat. And those go long or into the net since the window for a fast ball serve is so tiny with less spin.

Dec 5, 2020 · A flat serve curves down because of gravity. 'Flat serve' is a tennis term that has probably been used for many decades. As is usually the case, old tennis terms are misleading. A flat serve has a component of top spin. So it curves down both from gravity plus from the downward aerodynamic forces. It is relatively flat compared to a kick or ...

Nov 2, 2019 · A "flat" serve just looks flat because it doesn't really break left or right and the trajectory appears to be like a straight line from the racquet to the court. It's not really straight because of gravity and spin, but it's what people commonly refer to as flat.

Aug 2, 2008 · A friend of mine told me she serves with a continental grip for her topspin second serve, but she uses an eastern FH grip for her flat first serve. I am puzzled by this, as I have been told not to use an eastern FH grip for serving. I use Continental or go a little past Continental if I want extra spin. Then again, I don't hit much of a flat serve.

Aug 19, 2009 · Anyone can hit a flat serve. No one hits a flat serve. Pete's flat serve had a lot of spin and that's what made it great. I hit a flat serve yesterday while I was practicing that hit over 6ft. high on the back fence. Most of the time my flat serve hits about 5ft. high at the middle fence post. The fence is 10ft. high.

Feb 22, 2011 · You definitely need to mix up flat serve with slice. I always underrated the power of slice serve, recently i injured my right tricep. I pains if i go flat at the ball in serve so i started mixing slice and topsin. People who found my serve easy when i mixed flat and topsip serves said that my serve has improved a lot now.

Sep 8, 2016 · A flat serve has about as much spin as a basketball free throw. A spin serve is hit with the intention of controlling the ball with the spin. A flat serve doesn't have nearly enough spin on it to effect the serve. You can distinguish a flat serve from a slice by watching the racket at contact and afterwards. A flat serve is hit flat. The ball ...