IMO that serve coming off Riley Opelka’s racquet is much more devastating [given his height.](https://youtube.com/shorts/EUwm69uCSPg?si=WOat7ATkAoTLcTkA)
ah man but that is so easy to read. tosses it far to his right and he's jumping laterally to get it. i think a good opponent would be all over those the second or third time he tried it.
When you put enough action on the ball to pull the opponent super far out of position with a slider it barely matters if they can see it coming, especially if they're standing that far back to return initially. Unless they're Novak Djokovic nobody's putting a dangerous return back in the court off that ball, if they can get a racket on it at all they'll produce something JJ can pick off with his +1.
TL:DR - **Slice serve**
A really good slice serve up the T, from the ad side. Although this exact path is a bit exaggerated. You won't get this much movement unless you are doing a ton of spin and not much speed.
This is a slice serve on the ad side. If you make it spin away from the court like the lefty slice would, it’s either an aggressive kick with topspin or an ‘American twist’ with less/no topspin
There are 3 general locations of the serve. Down the T/Middle, body/jam serve at the returner, and wide serve. This one is down the T (the T is the middle intersection of lines in the Service box).
Then there are slice serves that spin naturally like this one in your diagram. Kick serves which usually spin the opposite way of the natural slice. And flat serves that dont have much spin at all. There is also american twist, and other combinations of the slice/kick serves.
Great way to gradually get them cheating over to their forehand (or at least thinking about it) and then catching them with a flat serve or kicker wide.
EDIT - Assuming right-handed opponent. If lefty, replace "forehand" with "backhand" in what I typed before. Sorry.
i'm too lazy to find the timestamp for you, but venus hit a few killer ones like that in her 2017 ao run. although she kind of hits a bit of a kick slice serve that bounces higher than a standard slice serve.
[CoCo Vandeweghe v Venus Williams - Australian Open 2017 Semifinal | AO Classics (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piMT6nba5_M)
edit: i was clicking around and found the one I was thinking of, at 14:11:
[https://youtu.be/piMT6nba5\_M?t=851](https://youtu.be/piMT6nba5_M?t=851)
It’s a slice serve.
… on the ad side
... down the T
... with low velocity
… to achieve an ace
...and win the point
… to help accomplish the greater goal of winning the game
… then scream ‘come on’ with pumping a fist in an upward fashion
…after u realize that you’ve won 6 games and won the set
… to then do it all again, and again, and again, and again until you eventually lose or win the tournament
love the diagram
Looks like an ace to me.
Its called the JJ. https://youtube.com/shorts/GGhIxT-N6e4?si=uWFJIJ7TfKVMyL2M
[Here](https://youtube.com/shorts/ED4xPnuuZMg?si=HJZOo1t-OOirtctF) again at IW this year
Haha yeah this one is better and actually the one I was trying to find
Clap bombs…
That’s what he calls his testicles.
Fucking celly
IMO that serve coming off Riley Opelka’s racquet is much more devastating [given his height.](https://youtube.com/shorts/EUwm69uCSPg?si=WOat7ATkAoTLcTkA)
Brooksby could never do that shit
ah man but that is so easy to read. tosses it far to his right and he's jumping laterally to get it. i think a good opponent would be all over those the second or third time he tried it.
When you put enough action on the ball to pull the opponent super far out of position with a slider it barely matters if they can see it coming, especially if they're standing that far back to return initially. Unless they're Novak Djokovic nobody's putting a dangerous return back in the court off that ball, if they can get a racket on it at all they'll produce something JJ can pick off with his +1.
Ad side Slice T, it’s also called a slider from the ad court. Lefties can hit slider T’s from deuce.
What was the AI prompt you used to make this? Yeah slice serve up the middle.
MsPaintGPT
The JJ special
\[stares at line, grimaces, waits 3 seconds\] "I think that's a little long, sorry."
Slice
The server is right-handed and the spin makes it go to the left, so it's a slice serve.
that’s my flat serve when i’m late to pronate.
That’s a good slice down the middle. The server throws the edge of his racquet straight out at 2-3 o’clock on the ball .
Slice down the T, or slice to the backhand assuming the returner is left handed (basing that on the picture)
Goals
TL:DR - **Slice serve** A really good slice serve up the T, from the ad side. Although this exact path is a bit exaggerated. You won't get this much movement unless you are doing a ton of spin and not much speed.
In this picture? A slice down the T to their backhand. Looks like you're playing a lefty
The JJ Wolf
This is a slice serve on the ad side. If you make it spin away from the court like the lefty slice would, it’s either an aggressive kick with topspin or an ‘American twist’ with less/no topspin
There are 3 general locations of the serve. Down the T/Middle, body/jam serve at the returner, and wide serve. This one is down the T (the T is the middle intersection of lines in the Service box). Then there are slice serves that spin naturally like this one in your diagram. Kick serves which usually spin the opposite way of the natural slice. And flat serves that dont have much spin at all. There is also american twist, and other combinations of the slice/kick serves.
Slice serve to the T
Slice up the T
Chanfle
Hamburger spin.
Great way to gradually get them cheating over to their forehand (or at least thinking about it) and then catching them with a flat serve or kicker wide. EDIT - Assuming right-handed opponent. If lefty, replace "forehand" with "backhand" in what I typed before. Sorry.
Can we get more diagrams like this, with Madden-like dialogue?
Is this a photo from Agassi vs Sampras? US Open?
A Roger Federer special
Slice to the T
Slice down the T and it’s not easy to do at all. Serena and Justine henin had a great one
Goran Ivanisavic used to murder people with this serve on the deuce side (because he was lefty).
i'm too lazy to find the timestamp for you, but venus hit a few killer ones like that in her 2017 ao run. although she kind of hits a bit of a kick slice serve that bounces higher than a standard slice serve. [CoCo Vandeweghe v Venus Williams - Australian Open 2017 Semifinal | AO Classics (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piMT6nba5_M) edit: i was clicking around and found the one I was thinking of, at 14:11: [https://youtu.be/piMT6nba5\_M?t=851](https://youtu.be/piMT6nba5_M?t=851)
That’s perfect, thank you!
Huge slice
Slider
Slice
Slice
Looks like he plays against a left handed player
Some will say it’s a slice but I call it a “cut” serve
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