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Nero 007 asked in SportsTennis · 1 decade ago

Question on how pros serve?

How does a skinny little guy like gilles simon serve so hard? And he doesn't even do weights. His forehand is also quite good in the sense that he's able to generate good pace on it.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Muscle has little to do with a fast serve. If you have good racquet head speed, then you will serve 10 times better than some super muscular person who tries to use just his arm muscles to generate power and speed.

  • 1 decade ago

    most of a tennis player's general power comes from the legs and the core. if simon has a good load on his serve and on his forehand, he can generate more power than someone to uses weights all the time get stronger arms.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    its all in the racquet head speed and you get that by using your legs to jump into the ball and your upperbody rotates through the ball letting the racquet release and crack like a whip when it hits the ball therefore giving it alot more power than it would seem possible. the rotation is key on the forehand as well.

    Source(s): experience
  • 1 decade ago

    Most of the power of a serve comes from fast racquet head speed.

    Source(s): I'm skinny and have a powerful serve
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  • 1 decade ago

    you have to have a cooperating kinetic chain. it starts in your toes and then calfs, knees, thighs, waist, core, sholders, tricep/bicep, elbow, forearm, wrist fingers. you have to use them all to feel the energy come up your body to hit up as hard as you can on the tennis ball. rackethead speed is key, but its not the arms that do all of teh work. its the legs jumping and hips rotating. you doing either of those alone wont help. you have to work on timing every bodypart to get your full power

  • 1 decade ago

    Its more than just raw power. Its mostly physics and kinetic chains and stuff. All the power comes from the body basically being a human spring.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Racquet head speed determines the ball speed.

  • 1 decade ago

    Legs and hip. A good rotation and technique can be a lot more powerful than big buff guy with bad technique and rotation.

    Source(s): I'm a big not buff guy who can serve big...ish lol
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