How Serena Williams set up her staggering serve with pure elegance

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How Serena Williams set up her staggering serve with pure elegance | Acing It

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Күн бұрын

In this episode of Acing It, ESPN's Bill Connelly dives into the quiet key behind Serena Williams' booming serve: her serve toss. That ball toss might seem like a small matter, but the start of Serena's serve boasting reliability and unreadability unlocked everything for her.
0:00 Intro
0:24 Why the serve toss matters
2:15 What the stats say about Serena's serve
3:32 Serena's serve speed
4:40 Why Wimbledon 2012 was a key point
6:41 Serena's clutch gene
8:15 Further study: Nick Kyrgios
8:55 Serena's place in the GOAT era of tennis
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@Doyourdougiekid Ай бұрын

Best Tennis athlete ever

@MisterMxyzptlk1972 Ай бұрын

Best female tennis player yep.

@Official.tadiwa Ай бұрын

@@MisterMxyzptlk1972 no best athlete ever to play tennis none of the men have done what she has done it’s just a simple fact who is gonna win a slam pregnant and invade death twice 💀

@MisterMxyzptlk1972 Ай бұрын

@@Official.tadiwa Ok so she's 2nd on the list of women's titles won and would be 2nd place in titles behind Novak. You can say she's the best female tennis athlete but she's not better than male athletes. That's why women play against women and men play men. Serena and her sister at the peak of their dominance both got destroyed when they played exhibition sets against Aarsten Braasch who was ranked 200th in the world.

@Official.tadiwa 29 күн бұрын

@@MisterMxyzptlk1972 no she is first MC never won 7 matches to win a grand slam ever. Ontop of that Novak is only good at single Serena has double titles along with mixed doubles titles she could’ve completed a career golden slam in mixed doubles too and would’ve if she continued to play it. 23 slams 14 slams 2 slams. Novak doesn’t even begin to compare. 4 gold medals. She is THE GREATEST ATHLETE EVER TO PLAY TENNIS

@MisterMxyzptlk1972 29 күн бұрын

@@Official.tadiwa Ok, you want to talk numbers? Martina Navratilova has 167 total titles including women's doubles and mixed doubles. Chris Evert 157, Steffi Graf 107, Margaret Court 92, and Serena down in 5th with 73. Her career is great, just not the best by far.

@mertellabrown3691 Ай бұрын

I could watch this over and over and over. And still learn something new about Serena. Much thanks.

@Empy003 25 күн бұрын

The best server EVER. Power+Placement+Disguise+Top Spin+Direction. No one could ever.

@FamousCroc Ай бұрын

Will never forget that 4 ace service game in the Wimbledon final

@uzoamakaazike8132 26 күн бұрын

One of the reason I love Serena is that you can read her thoughts through her service games and shots. Like the 4 aces! The best ever.

@user-wt7qg1sd5v Ай бұрын

I think I heard Serena also didn’t plan where she was gonna serve. She let the toss decide

@Ayanaa_20 21 күн бұрын

One thing we all gonna agree is that tennis world is gonna miss her soo much 😢,and also it's sad to see the end of an Era for Serena,federer,Novac and Nadal..i wish they can continue playing for 10 more years

@user-oj1pq2lt5y Ай бұрын

Serena Williams the greatest of all time with greatest serve of all time in both male and female tennis

@VintageVoid3 Ай бұрын

Nothing but a champ

@slaonestephens7575 Ай бұрын

Most beautiful serve motion I ever saw.

@FamousCroc Ай бұрын

9:44 why Serena is the goat 🐐🐐🐐 2️⃣3️⃣🏆

@nateawzom13 27 күн бұрын

the best of 3 format yes exactly

@FavouredLadyT 29 күн бұрын

My God, this woman

@gtan307 28 күн бұрын

And she is not the tallest and doesn’t toss the ball way too high like most other women on WTA 😂 , yet her serves are the most consistent with best placement and optimal power in the history of tennis. All of these are testament to her flawless polished technique of serving. Proof that you don’t need to be over 6 foot tall and no need to toss the ball way too high when you serve in tennis.

@user-wt7qg1sd5v Ай бұрын

That’s an impressive point about Serena needing to win the 3 sets vs the men’s 5 sets. But the reverse is also true. You can win 2 sets on the men’s side & still lose/be pushed to 5 sets. Over time that takes a toll. Whereas in WTA u win the first 2 sets..(or even 1 set, get a double break in 2nd set.)...the match is pretty much over

@Official.tadiwa Ай бұрын

She served better than a lot of men having similar stats as the big three

@ytprv1890 28 күн бұрын

That’s why she lost to number 200 in the world while being Top 5

@Official.tadiwa 27 күн бұрын

@@ytprv1890 that never happened 😂 do your research she played atp 200 who was ranked 35 years before that but got injured leading to fall in rankings on top of that Serena was 17 ranked 99 without any slams to her name

@Official.tadiwa 27 күн бұрын

@@ytprv1890 I’m embarrassed for you 💀

@ytprv1890 22 күн бұрын

@@Official.tadiwa Average black person lol

@ytprv1890 22 күн бұрын

@@Official.tadiwa He was ranked 200, said too have played like a 600, and his training was often cited as smoking a pack and drinking a few pints. He was also considerably older and he still decimated them. I’m embarrassed that we’re part of the same species💀

@CurlyViet 21 күн бұрын

It’s only after they retired that they get the recognition they deserved. In this case, Serena but also Venus are prime examples of that. But let’s not forget the most influential entities and formed and shaped the tennis world - Richard Williams and Oracean Price.

@nomadicmusic3558 Ай бұрын

LOVE THIS!!!!

@videomakville Ай бұрын

4:05 that's freakishly mean 😅

@neptune1525 Ай бұрын

haha 😊😊

@cjr21 27 күн бұрын

2012 was Serna at her peak. She could literally do no wrong she was on IT.

@BookwormtoBookworm 21 күн бұрын

been trying for 5 years to get this serve.

@rrbluemoon6031 22 күн бұрын

🤯👏🏽👏🏽 that’s all!!

@abdulsamadsaleh 26 күн бұрын

Queen of ace

@dudster5 Ай бұрын

The 🐐🐐🐐🐐

@hahahaha-qx9nj Ай бұрын

The GOAT

@nickelwindow538 Ай бұрын

The GOAT 🎾🏆

@Jason2223 26 күн бұрын

As a true Serena fan this script was underwhelming but I appreciate the attempt 💫 please let tennis players direct/ write these not generic sports analysts

@ashokathegreat4534 19 күн бұрын

The poor guy at the end took corpse corner too literally

@hahahaha-qx9nj Ай бұрын

Also the fact you're giving credit to Mouratoglou is ridiculous. Before the French open 2012, serena was destroying the field on clay in both Charleston and Madrid. Her Charlestown sf and f were ridiculous performances. She was always prone to bad slams after nearly dying in 2010/2011. She had bad slam results in 2014 too, where she was ridiculously bad and Patrick was her coach then!

@xavierrobinson200 Ай бұрын

Thank you for saying that 3 sets is a harder match than 5 for a top player...

@SmoothOperator612 29 күн бұрын

U being serious or joking? Just asking.

@sueannwashere 29 күн бұрын

I missss herrrrrrr! The women's game is a mess right now.

@bdr5518 29 күн бұрын

The 🐐

@GaryTornado-zy2mz 29 күн бұрын

Serena is The Goat but you dropped the ball when you said Serena and The Big 3 were the only 20 plus slams in the Open Era. Steffi Graf.

@atmd.2023 28 күн бұрын

For me, Serena is the GOAT on the women’s side. She won all those slams in singles even though she played very little tournaments in between while also taking home some slams in doubles. Ever since she retired, I stopped tuning in to the sport and have lost interest.

@fridaclaxton Ай бұрын

Hmmm. Not sure what the point of this video is at this time?

@got2bjosh Ай бұрын

In The Arena docuseries is released July 10th on ESPN+.

@exposingtimes9570 Ай бұрын

Athleticism Question: Hypothetically, Do you think Serena and Venus Williams in their physical/athletic primes could have success playing high school football? Do they have the athleticism for it? Why or why not?

@chrislewis5069 Ай бұрын

She really beneifitted with her muscle and ability to just put muscle other women.

@Unexpected3251 Ай бұрын

Dumb dumb, ball toss has nothing to do with muscles.

@lizzy341 Ай бұрын

americans never accept that she overpowered players. she made tennis boring, the era of cljisters, Henin, Hingis was magnificent.

@user-wt7qg1sd5v Ай бұрын

U clearly don’t know tennis. 😂😂 Believe it or not, being muscular is a detriment. Go look at Alycia Park’s game. One of the top Serves on WTA, taller (6’1) & more powerful than Serena. With spotty accuracy & guile. Then look at Novak’s body. Then check out Chris Eubanks who is emancipated and hits harder Forehands than all the Top 10. (This is documented. Arthur Fils is 2nd)

@thomasm0310 Ай бұрын

@@lizzy341Hate all you want but at the end of the day, Serena has 23 grand slams because of her physicality and sheer talent. Most women would love to walk in Serena’s shoes.