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Thanks so much for not adding any music ! Silence is much more magical sometimes.

kyrgios has a good speedy action for a bang serve. Del Potro a complete body aligned movement. Sampras...smooth and tricky

Thanks so much for this video. I have footage of my own serve and it's great that I can scroll through your video and find the right angle that matches my footage so I can compare techniques.

Roger Federer 00:21 Rafael Nadal 01:48 Novak Djokovic 00:47 Dominic Thiem 00:00 Pete Sampras 01:58 Andre Agassi 02:14 Grigor Dimitrov 03:45 Ivo Karlovic 06:39 David Goffin 04:48 Nick Kyrgios 00:37 Fabio Fognini 02:45 Andy Murray 02:35 Daniil Medvedev 03:00 Juan Martin Del Potro 03:23 Alexander Zverev 04:05 Fernando Verdasco 05:18 Feliciano Lopez 05:52 Ernest Gulbis 14:38 Sam Groth 15:12 Pat Cash 15:30 Ivan Lendl 15:40

An excellent video, to see the slow motion of all of these top players. Incidentally, I was at the Exhibition in 2014 at Earls Court and took some nice photos of Sampras, Agassi, Lendl and Cash, and their serves. It was a fun evening.

Damn this is good compilation. Great work!

I love tennis. Thanks you for this video

Would love to see Roscoe Tanner in slow mo. He had a very quick service action and hit the ball on the rise.

Samps all the way, he's led the way for modern serving

Federer's kick serve was exquisite. That bounced head high at the other end.

Very good

Great video to analize clear and quite the full motion serve. Tks!

they make it look so easy

4:37 Zverevon his usual serving mode

Thanks

federer's server just look gorgeous.

what a beautiful “trophy motion”

Pistol Pete had the best serve ever seen in tennis

Sampras's serve is the best.

I noticed Nadal doesn't stretch his wrist back and forth too much and I personally think it's a good techinique to prevent wrist and forearm injuries.

A lot of coaches tell novices to raise both arms together with the toss with the racket frozen in the trophy position in a waiting static pose. However, the slo mo shows the racket arm starting low and rising well behind the toss arm in a continuous looping motion.

I like roger's. I don't know, it seems so gentle, elegant, just beautiful.

We've watched sixteen minutes of great slow motion techniques here. I will like to point out what made the Sampras serve so unique compared to everyone else featured in this video sequence. So, if we look at it here 01:56 By the way, this video was taken in 2014 in Earls Court in London. Virtually every player in the video faces the court, or you can say, faces their target. However, Sampras in this video has the most side on motion. The only other player that comes to mind with such a side on motion is John McEnroe, who of course was left handed. So it was interesting to watch them play each other like I was lucky to do in 2008 in Royal Albert Hall Masters tournament. As Sampras has the most side on motion in the video, there are more possibilities to have disguise. Pete tended to toss the ball straight above his head or slightly to the left, and therefore on the deuce court would come over the ball with slice and topspin down the middle at pace. And with that same motion, could go out wide. The Sampras "flat" serve down the middle actually had a lot of spin, much more than his peers. One way this is manifested so you can see for yourself is when the ball hits the deck, it actually appears to gather more pace, because it is like a mini explosion. which is why you often saw centre line judges having to take cover because the ball was heading straight at them fast and sometimes head height, which is quite incredible as they stand about 20 metres from where the ball initially pitches in the service box. However, for me it is the ad court where the side on motion made the most difference. Unlike most players since the 1990s who stand further away from the centre line, Sampras stood quite close to the centre line. Therefore, with the side on motion, was able to bend the ball with extreme slice down the middle. Often the ball would bend away from the opponent, hence the many aces there, even many second serve aces down the middle on the ad court. The match point in the 1999 Wimbledon final being the perfect example. A second serve ace at 113mph bending away from Agassi, who is stretching to reach it but can't get there. Andrew Castle once described Pete's serve like a quiver which is a great description. Usually the serve bending away like that from the opponent is the domain of the lefty but as a righty Sampras was somehow able to figure that out. With good rhythm, an excellent flexible shoulder as others have pointed out, and the side on motion allowing for the disguise and pronation, because again, with the same ball toss could go out wide on the ad court. In the last thirty years, most players stand further away from the centre line, therefore on the ad court tend to have to compromise if they want to get the ball down the middle, the ball often angles into the opponent’s hitting zone as opposed to going away from the opponent. In the women’s game, Serena has a similar philosophy to Sampras, but again, she is quite old school. Not sure if we will see servers like that in future unless philosophies change.

Djokovic has a good orthodox technique. Good to take pointers

Thank you like to asked with what camera can you make this kind of videos please

No Kevin Anderson :( My favourite here is the Kyrgios serve. Looks so fluid and powerful. And with that low ball toss it feels like it can't go wrong.

From watching this video and watching video of my own serve, I was not coiling my torso enough. To fix this I am tracking the tossed ball with my left nipple to get my chest up, torso coiled in a C, falling forward into the court at the trophy position, and as the ball begins to fall I am uncoiling. Looks better and less stiff.

Almagro had a beautiful serve, but Sampras is the best in the department

As a right handed player, is it "better" or more natural to land directly in front of you on your left foot? I see some players land a bit to their left or right from their left foot's starting position. Tsitsipas comes to mind when I think of landing to the left of the left foot's original position. Thanks for the footage!

These are nice slow motion pictures, but I wish the entire ball toss was shown.

who is the first one? That looks the best of all, for regular players to model on.

Federer, Nadal 20 major titles, the Joker, 19. Enjoy……we may never see the likes of these 3 at such a level at the same time in our lifetime.

Federer has the prettiest technique.

Is there a similar video for WTA players?

Must be added focus hz music 😎

Rampras

1:07 Federer's shoe is on the line. Is this allowed in a serve to touch or be over the baseline? If not then what happens in such case?

No tennis player can even compete with Sampras, only son of a gun had a better 2nd serve!!.. INSANE

I would love to know if there was a % score for technique. I wonder who would have the "best" serve? Being able to place it where you want is, to me, not a change in technique, per se. That is a few degrees difference in the racket face. I'm taking purely about technique. I really like Thiem's knee bend, but if I could take anyone's serve, it would be Groth.

im a beginner....why is Sampras arm bent after the strike--is this a kick serve where the ball is thrown to the inside or is this his normal stroke

у Федерера заступ на подаче ))) но видимо это просто тренировка

Are you allowed to throw the ball into the court as you serve or must the ball remain behind the baseline at all times until contact?

As a hobby tennis player, what I would like to add, is that as far as I can determine, the top players toss the ball perfectly, so that the ball is slightly to the left of the player‘s head when he strikes the ball (referring to right-handed players). This allows the ball to be hit with a lot of top-spin, which shortens the length of the trajectory, thus making it less likely that the ball will be hit too long. Also, the grip needs to be correct too : most hobby tennis players play using the forehand grip when serving, and consequently not enough top-spin is imparted to the ball when serving. Comments/input = welcome !

The most important part to see is when racket meets the ball. It is missing in most of these serves. It is so sad!!

2020 was 2 YEARS AGO?!

1:47 front nd out, on heal, big backfoot forward Lean back

ayyy these serves look exactly like mine in real time

Some of them touched the base line with their foot

フェデラーは、「練習では」気軽に白線踏むんだなと思いました。

Hello, good afternoon. I'm doing a video about the serve for my channel, is there a problem if I use some parts of your video? Thank you very much Lautaro Mele

Federer’s serve is very fluid but wow is shoulder is not flexible at all and makes his racquet drop higher than someone with a more flexible shoulder like Djokovic or Thiem. However, he makes up for it with incredible timing.

1:47

This is powerful compilation. with my visualization skills, I have established an advantageous racket throwing starting point, butt slightly behind ear. Also, staying to the side when you throw racket towards net post. Been opening up to early. keeping tossing arm up will abate body opening, this is key to efficient throwing power. Olander Worthy

Foot fault at 1:07. LOL.

Andy Roddick had the speed record for some time, is it now Karlovic the record holder?

It would be also nice to include women in the compilation! I am 5 8 and wonder what I could learn from shorter players strategies and approaches towards serve mechanics!

Strange but Federer has the most non regular service, he drastical move his left foot while service is in progress

In my opinion, Sampras is the greatest server of all time when you factor in height, as he is only 6 foot 1 inches tall. It is not hard to have a great serve when your nearly 7 foot tall. You didn't show Raonic, but this guy is very skilled. Plenty of players near his height on the tour that are no where near as good as him. Schwartzman, Ferrer and Murray are all great returners and they all say Isner is the best.

(1:09) Foot fault old mate Rog!

I like to try to ID each guy and would appreciate if you can provide the names in the order they appear. Anyone?🙏🏻

Who is the guy at 9：30 please？

Kyrios ? Isner? Opelka ?

did anyone notice that Fed foot faulted at 1:08?

Foot fault - Fele Lopez

5:53 Foot fault

Djoko has the simplest mechanics

Wawrinka

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Uhoh - awkward Lopez foot fault 5:50

1:07 big time foot fault there

If my life depends on it, I will take Sampras’ serve over anyones. Federer is close 2nd..

Anyone else here trying to learn it?

I wanted to see Raonic

0:33 Federer landed position 3:22 Thiem landed position The same type of serve. And we ofcourse know where is correct option.

Great vid, but would have been even more helpful if it was divided into lefties and righties. I'm a leftie, so it's a bit difficult to flip over what the righties are doing.

be kinda nice to see the ball being hit. where it goes up where it drops and gets hit. thx anyway.

sampras has best serve skill

1:08 roger foot fault 😬

I’d like to visit Sampras’s hometown someday: Samprasisco.

Nadal 1:47

Only roger is special

Foot fault at 6:00

fuck they all really do pronate!!! I still cant quite get it

Grigor's technique is too complex and so is Sasha Zverev. Amazed that they've gotten away with it at this level.

Somehow this best serve in the world video manages to leave out the statistically proven best server (under 195cm) of all time named Andy Roddick

Where is Milos Ronic ... biggest serve in the game ?? Also, the lefty in all white on the grass, huge foot faults!

1:03 Federer foot fault

Fed foot fault 1:11

No Sam Groth only!

Rodger be foot fault in

wtf, there are countless duplicated takes in this mix

1:03 is that not a foot fault?

Left out Roddik.

Too many ads

1:06 Foot on the line

somebody's gotta tell Novak to drive with his back leg more on the serve

No

Kyrgios is best

Note how smart sports fans are in general: They don't like tennis that much (notice all the empty seats in the arenas). Boring!