{"id":233,"date":"2018-05-04T12:06:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T16:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennistipoftheweek.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2018-04-29T10:08:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T14:08:56","slug":"maximize-your-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tennistipoftheweek.com\/2018\/05\/04\/maximize-your-serve\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximize your Serve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style10\">Last time we talked about perfecting your service toss. This week we focus on maximizing the effectiveness of your serve. Many of us have issues with our serve. Whether it&#8217;s trouble with consistency, or a weak second serve, this stroke can start you off shakily.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"style10\">The first priority is to\u00a0<span class=\"style11\">get the first serve in<\/span>\u00a0as much as possible, even if you have to hit it softer. Opponents won&#8217;t jump on a weak first serve as quickly as they will a weak second serve.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"style10\">Next, try to move the serve around&#8230;alternate hitting to their backhand, forehand, and right at them. Pay attention to which position works and go back to it.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"style10\">Lastly, practice, practice, practice. All you need are a bag\/basket of balls and a court. Don&#8217;t just hit balls without thinking. Play an imaginary game in your head. Are you serving down 15-40, 30 all? Playing a game in your head will help you duplicate and over come the match pressure that makes your serve breakdown.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last time we talked about perfecting your service toss. This week we focus on maximizing the effectiveness of your serve. Many of us have issues with our serve. Whether it&#8217;s trouble with consistency, or a weak second serve, this stroke can start you off shakily. The first priority is to\u00a0get the first serve in\u00a0as much &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennistipoftheweek.com\/2018\/05\/04\/maximize-your-serve\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maximize your Serve&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,8,5,14],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis-strategy","tag-serve","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-tip","tag-tennistip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tennistipoftheweek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tennistipoftheweek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tennistipoftheweek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tennistipoftheweek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tennistipoftheweek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tennistipoftheweek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"http:\/\/www.tennistipoftheweek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tennistipoftheweek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tennistipoftheweek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tennistipoftheweek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}