How to Hit a Kick or Slice Serve in Tennis

Learning to serve with spin is an important goal for any serious tennis player. It’s also something many players fail to achieve. A slice serve and a kick serve will take your game to a whole different level, allowing you to hit with more consistency, accuracy and pace.

Today, you’re going to learn how to get more spin on your serve. We’ll teach you how to hit a reliable kick serve. Then, we’ll cover each step for an effective slice serve.

The reason many players don’t know how to hit a kick serve or slice serve is that serving with spin takes slightly different technique than a flat serve, along with lots of practice and patience.

However, the rewards on the tennis court are well worth it.

Let’s take a look at the best way to add these skills to your arsenal, but first, let’s really understand what we are trying to do.

Note: We recommend you go through all the videos on this page in order. If you master the slice serve first, it will make learning how to hit a kick serve much easier.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A FLAT, SLICE, AND KICK SERVE?

The primary difference between these three important tennis serves, is the spins.

As its name implies, a flat serve has very little spin. In other words, the ball is not really rotating in any direction, which makes the serve fast but with a small margin for error.

On a slice serve, the ball spins sideways and produces as sideway bounce. This very useful for pulling the opponent off the court.

Finally, on a kick serve, the ball spins forwards like on a topspin groundstroke. This provides the server with a very large margin for error with high net clearance, an ideal way to hit a second serve.

The following video will provide you with a simple way to understand how to hit each of the different serves.

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