The serve determines points in tennis. Learn serve technique, spin types, speed training, and racquet selection through tested analysis and expert breakdowns.
The grip that feels most unnatural in your hand is the one tennis started with. Everything else came later. That is the part most lesson plans skip.
Walk into almost any teaching program and you will hear a version of the same instruction: learn the continental grip first, or you will never serve, volley, or slice the way you should.
In the first round at Wimbledon in 2010, John Isner hit 113 aces in a single match. Mahut hit 103. The match ran 11 hours and 5 minutes across three days and finished 70-68 in the fifth set.
Most recreational players have asked some version of this question after a club match: the flat serve down the T that froze the returner on Saturday looked, on video, almost identical to the one that…