Pure Heavy Backspin Pendulum Serve

Salman Razi Asked 9 years ago

Hi Jeff/Alois,

How could I achieve pure heavy back spin serve with Pendulum motion and no side spin on it. So as soon as the opponent touches the ball it goes straight into net. 

I have seen Pendulum Serve video in the Serving section but when I perform this serve I get backspin but also get side spin with it and one of my opponent just wait for me to do this serve and he just smashes it with blazing power. I like to do a pure backspin serve to him so it goes into net or any advise/suggestion how could i stop him doing this smash to me because if I do short to him he flicks it very decent speed.

So only way I could stop him is to do pure heavy low backspin serve but i am having hard time achieving this 

How could I easily achieve pure heavy low backspin serve with the same action so it would deceive him.

Please advise

Thanks

Alois Rosario Answered 9 years ago

Hi Salman,

The key here is the angle of your racket when you contact the ball.

You need to focus on getting the end of your racket up higher.  Often when we do this serve the end of the racket drops lower which means that the angle of the racket is tilted and so you get some sidespin on the ball.  If you have your bat parallel to the ground you will get pure backspin.