Hugo calderano's serve
Serving
William Ritter Asked 7 years ago
Hi. I watch the last match of Calderano with Harimoto, it was an amazing match. Can you teach me his serve? Thanks for your videos, its helping me a lot.
PS: Sorry for my english, i'm from Brazil. And i'm also a lefthander. lol
Alois Rosario Answered 7 years ago
Hi William,
You have picked a great player to watch and copy. Hugo Calderano has excellent technique.
The serve he uses a lot is the High Toss Pendulum serve. The basic principle is to throw the ball high to get the ball to be moving faster when it hits your racket. Then you execute the Pendulum serve as you normally would by brushing the side of the ball. One of the difficult parts initially is throwing the ball up straight so that it comes down in a god position to make the serve from.
Take a look at what is available in the High Toss Serve video which is a Premium video but worth getting access to.
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William Ritter Posted 7 years ago
Thank you Alois for answer my question. I'm going to start traning this serve today. Thank you again.
Great. Let me know how you get on.