how to serve a strong professional serve? help?

Snap your wrist behind your back? First time I heard of that one. For me and what my coach coached me in was the ball toss and 'leaning' into the serve and letting your arm whip forward - it is important for that to leave your wrist relaxed and not snap it. For me the real key was to stop this business of hitting a bomb serve and concentrate on spin - either slice or twist. I didn't like the topspin kicker because it popped my shoulder. The ball toss depends on the type of serve you want to produce - over to your right for the slice and to your left for the twist - the opposite if you are left handed like me. Hit across the ball for slice and up and across the ball the the twist. I found spin serves consistently harder to return and a lot more reliable than the bomb. Even if you got the bomb in it was easy to chip and charge.

My serves were fairly easy to actually get back but hard to actually attack on and put where you want it - that's the advantage of spin.

Thanks

Bill

Ok first off u have to realize why ur missing and where is ur toss have ur toss a little to the right and out in front then turn ur shoulders and bend ur knees and swing up like ur gonna hit the sun with ur racket and make sure u go forward and don't snap ur wrist use your wrist trust me and just keep doing it and the faster u swing up to the sky the more topspin it's gonna have then once u see there all going in u can start hitting it harder and place the ball a foot from where u wanna hit and if u miss ur first serve do the same way Asa first except add more spin but if u want a serve the has kick with side spin the confuse ur opponent the toss the ball to ur left and swing up and to the right like ur swing from 7:00 to 3:00 ask ur coach about this and if u don't. Have a coach go to YouTube or a tennis site to see how it's done hope this helped and gl ;)

You shouldn't actually snap in your back... A good server pronates his forearm late on the way up; he literally attacks the ball with the side of the frame, but it's not like he tries to hit insanely hard either. If you swing well, you won't even feel you try to hit and the ball will have plenty of pace and spin. By the way, your snap is basically turning your hand over so the palm faces down at contact - that movement is called a pronation.

A good serve starts with a constant toss, then, you need to have a launching sequence: legs, hips, shoulders, forearm, hand. Your leg push in a way that gets you some inches off the ground, but also that forces your hips to start turning; then you start using those pelvic muscles to rotate your hips, start using your core muscles to get your shoulder moving through the shot; when you start doing that, your racket arm should be behind your back, elbow up and pull up as hard as you can, using all that kinetic energy swing your arm upward - yop, a serve is swung toward the sky - and, right before your arm reach extension, you pronate your forearm.

Professionals generally use some kind of heavy topspin on all of their serves. Some players incorporate a bit of slice with it. It is simply not physically possible to achieve high service speeds without a flat serve. The topspin is what pulls the ball down into the service area after it passes the net, it increases your margin for error and also makes the serve more difficult to return because when the ball bounces, it kicks up, and bounces faster than a ball hit flat or with slice. Sharapova and the Williams girls use a top serve but simply don't have the muscle that the men have to be able to produce the power. The key to a top serve is your grip and contact point. Power should come from your legs and torso, not from your arms.

Toss is more important for serve you can serve just because a good toss and strait racket.