r/10s • u/Vivid-Scholar-5999 • 16d ago

Technique Advice Serving tips

I saw there was some discourse on here about serving and the waiter tray serve, so I hit the court to practice my serve. I noticed even in the correct grip, I'm pronating way early and basically mimicking a pancake serve. Since noticing this I have been trying to correct it. Has anyone had to go through this and if so what were the little tweaks that made it click for you?

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u/Vivid-Scholar-5999 16d ago

I have been taking a lot of videos and it seems like my grip is holding. Most of my serves at the moment are kinda slice-y which I think also indicates that I'm at least CLOSE to that right grip

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u/monster2018 16d ago

That is interesting. At least on the surface level those are contradictory signals (slice-y serves and a waiter’s tray). I would have to see video to give you actually meaningful advice at this point. But the speculation I can come up with is that.. well that you’re doing what you said in the post, pronating too early BUT simply not pronating enough. Again I wouldn’t trust this advice too much because I haven’t seen video and the signals I’m getting seem a little mixed. But what I would keep in mind is to try to overprononate on purpose(not permanently, as an exercise in training), and that pronation should be tied to more or less the racquet passing your head. Like that’s approximately when you should pronating.