Tennis Serve: Learn Basics; Toss; and Topspin, Slice, and Twist Spins

Same Toss for Different Spin Serves?
Should you use the same toss for different spin serves? What do pros Pete Sampras, Roger Federer, Samantha Stosur, Andy Roddick, Serena Williams, and Novak Djokovic do?

How to Hit the Basic Serve: Photo Lesson
Photos illustrate this step-by-step, free tennis lesson that will help you learn how to hit the basic serve. Simple, easy instructions include the stance, grip, ball toss, windup, swing, point of contact, and follow-through.

Topspin-Slice First Serve - Tennis Video and Analysis
A tennis lesson using full-speed and slow-motion videos to help you learn the topspin-slice serve, the most common first serve used in intermediate and advanced tennis.

Learning the Twist (Kick) Serve
The advantages of kick serves and how to hit the twist.

Twist Serve - Tennis Video and Analysis - Kick Serve
A free tennis lesson using full-speed and slow-motion videos to help you learn the twist serve, one of the two kick serves. The twist serve is hit most often as a second serve in advanced tennis, but it also makes an effective first serve.

Topspin Serve - Second Serve - Tennis Video and Analysis
A free tennis lesson using full-speed and slow-motion videos to help you learn the topspin serve, one of the two kick serves used primarily as second serves in intermediate and advanced tennis.

Slice Serve - Tennis Video and Analysis
A free tennis lesson using full-speed and slow-motion videos to help you learn the slice serve, which is used to pull receivers wide or jam them.

Underhand Sidespin Serve - Tennis Video and Analysis
A free tennis lesson using a full-speed and slow-motion videos to help you learn the underhand sidespin serve, an extreme spin serve used commonly in early tennis history and as a rare surprise in contemporary tennis.