Pete Sampras Serve Analysis - Tennis Serve Lesson
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- Pete Sampras Serve Analysis - Tennis Serve Lesson
Pete Sampras is one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Before the era of Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic, Sampras was considered by many to be the GOAT. Download our FREE serve guide here - www.top-tennis-training.com/s...
Pistol Pete Sampras is one of the best servers of all time. Although Sampras never had the fastest serve in the world, his serve was feared by all his opponents due to his incredible disguise and accuracy with his tennis serve.
Andre Agassi who is regarded as one of the greatest returners tennis has ever seen, regarded in-form Pete Sampras to be the greatest players he's ever faced, stating "Without any doubt, he had the best serve and volleys between the players I faced and he was the best of the best".
So what exactly made Pete Sampras' serve so good and unique?
In this video, Coach Simon Konov of Top Tennis Training will examine and analyse the Pete Sampras serve in great depth.
Grip - Pete Sampras uses the continental grip on his tennis serve, which is the standard grip that most tennis pros will use.
Stance - Pete Sampras uses the platform serve stance. This is where you keep your feet around shoulder-width apart throughout the entire motion until you drive up into the ball.
Starting Position - Pete Sampras starts off his service motion with his body weight mainly on the back leg. He achieves this by lifting the toes of his front foot.
This will aid Sampras later on in the service action to transfer his body weight, from the back leg to the front leg and finally into the court. Sampras has quite a high starting position with the racket, his elbow and wrist are both bent. This position will allow him to drop the racket in a very relaxed manner and build up momentum.
Relaxation - One of Pete Sampras's tricks on his tennis serve is allowing his fingertips to lift off the grip. This occurs as he is lifting the racket into the trophy position. By doing this, Sampras eliminates tension in the fingers and this, in turn, keeps his muscles loose and relaxed.
Video Timeline
00:00 - Pete Sampras Serve Analysis Intro
00:42 - Pete Sampras Serve Grip
01:01 - Pete Sampras Serve Stance
02:05 - Disguise on the Sampras Serve
02:34 - The Start of the Sampras Serve
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Greatest serve of all time. (lacking power? you kidding me, he consistently served 125mph first serves and 115mph second serves.)
Another key factor that made Pete a goat was his ability to hit his best serves while under the most pressure. He could play the big points as well or better than the others.
Absolutely
As M.J in money time with the Bulls. Im so lucky to see Pistol Pete in his prime. He is the GOAT
Second serve aces down break point or set point 😮
This was his greatest asset. An anomaly indeed.
Being excited about the opportunity to win the most, instead of being scared to lose the most of what is already gained.
I grew up in the Sampras era and after all these years, seeing his serve still gives me goosebumps, such a fluid integrated motion and fantastic placement. He had the most relaxed wrist on tour for sure.
Fluidity in action
To watch him serve was a thing of beauty. The lines of his body was perfect
Michael Stich was not on the same level in terms of overall level and high profile matches , but his serve was quite different not the same amount of weight transfer and body rotation, so not as much power coming from the whole body, but he had comparable fluidity and effortless power serving 200+ km/h all day without breaking a sweat or even looking like he was trying hard. all with a very slender and not very muscular build so I would say he had one of the best arm/wrist
His service motion was perfect. No player was able combine power accuracy and the ability to deliver great serves under pressure.
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Sampras had tremendous placement with his serve which allowed him to follow it up with either an easy forehand approach shot, half volley, or volley winner. It was that combination that made him so difficult to break in his prime years when he moved so well around the court.
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@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial Simon, great video by the way! You should do a video on Edberg's serve and volley game.
Pete Sampras serve is poetry in motion. No one comes close
Federer's 1999-2003 service motion was very pleasing to the eye, too.
Sampras... His serve aged like fine wine
Can’t wait. Thank you Team Tennis for analysing arguably the best server of the game and my favourite Pistol Pete! Oh I miss that man sometimes.
Sampras was my favourite player growing up, loved him and his game.
This video had to be done
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@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial Oh Yeah! His game was so aggressive and unsettling to the opponents. He is so dominating. Can’t find it these days.
Don't we all ... (well, those of us who watched tennis in the '90s).
Great break down. Again!
Fabulous analysis..great attention to detail 👍🏼
Sampras’ serve had pace/power, precision and variance. Single greatest and most dominant shot in tennis history
Definitely up there as one of the best shots in history
Greatest second serve too, as well.
It's not that it was the greatest shot ever...in his day most commentators/analysts would have pointed to Goran's serve as a bit more lethal. It's that he was one of the 2-3 best servers in his time despite not being 6'4" and combine that with a great all court game and tremendous movement, and the end result was 14 majors. I think his serve motion is the best ever - but the serve itself not the best of his time or ever, but he's up there, despite not being a walking skyscraper, and that the overlooked part of his game is how good he was everywhere else. We remember the serve, and the forehand, and the overhead, and the backhand was a weakness (but much less so than people appreciate, especially in his early years), but it's that he had every shot, and especially in his later years, he went from being a very good volleyer but not a McEnroe or Edberg to in my opinion being as good at net as anyone ever, and I think had easily the best half volley of all time. As hard as he served, he was going to hit half volleys a lot and he turned an innately defensive shot for 99% of players into an offensive shot, hit flat or with a slight amount of topspin deep into corners.
@@Skiiiiiifreeeeeee Excellent analysis, can only agree with all you stated.
Excellent Simon, thank you! I've also tried to copy Sampras serve for years. I found that focusing on pulling my racquet hand up as close to the ball as possible (butt cap leading) before the final pronation, that the high Sampras finish occurred naturally. Otherwise the finish ended up lower and the serve had less power and depth. That tip, which came from Oscar Wegner, also helps keep your head up and eyes on the ball at contact.
Excellent Analysis of Pete Sampras's serve. Pete was one of 3 players I patterned my serve after.
I studied and developed my serve in the early 2000's, and I remember studying Sampras' serve a lot (Why wouldn't I? He's the best to ever do it!) It's amusing to look at this video and realize how much of my serve is borrowed from Pistol Pete. From the toe raise to pulling the elbow back and into the forward hip thrust. This service break down felt oddly nostalgic for me. Brought me back to my early tennis days when I was still heavily training my technique. Love it! Thank you!
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Okay that's nice way of saying "i got sampras' serve"
@@jenkinssthomson8879 nah I modeled my serve after him. No way I have that serve lol
What an amazing analysis...Sampras is the GOAT...was the best when tennis had most great players and also court speed had 1000x more range compared to today where basically every tournament is goland garros
They definitely ruined the speed element of tennis
Ha ha!
Thanks Simon...was waiting for this from your team! Great breakdown and analysis! Cheers!
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Awesome video, Simon. So much value in this tutorial that I'll be watching it several times over the next few weeks.
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Fantastic video! If only I had found these tips more than 10 years ago when I was high school to make serve and groundstokes even better.
This is a really nice analysis of Sampras' serve. There are many on CZcams but I think this captures the essence of Pete's serve. I would agree on three key things. The side on motion (allowing for disguise), the ball toss above the head or slightly to the left, and the flexibility and shoulder turn / famous wrist snap.
I would like to add one more important thing. The spin ratio. Sampras was able to impart much more spin at pace than his peers, hence the "heaviness" of his serve. True, some serves were faster, but Pete's serves were more powerful and more difficult to deal with, we saw how often the ball ricocheted off the returners' racquet into the crowd. Also how often the ball reached the backboard head height with the line judge having to take cover.
On the add court, Pete applied so much slice, the ball often moved away from the returner and straightened as it approached the centre line judge. Sampras had the sort of skill on the serve usually reserved for a lefty. His running banana forehand is a case in point, a shot usually associated with a lefty. Jeff Tarango (a lefty) claims to have taught him the shot but I can only assume it was Pete's fascination for Laver's game as a kid and so he incorporated some of Laver's game into his.
Back to the serve, as Sampras tossed the ball above his head, he came over the ball with slice and top spin, hence the serve down the middle had a lot of spin, making it difficult to return, and it’s an incredible skill. Today's game doesn't require the level of skill Sampras and Serena Williams (who more or less copied Pete including the toe up) put together.
Here are two studies from the 1998 US Open on archive.org. Note how much more spin Sampras puts on his serve than other guys who serve fast. Basically, a Sampras serve at 130mph with 2500 rpms is much more devastating than a guy serving at 140mph with 1200 rpms.
web.archive.org/web/20160807011353/advancedtennis.com/results/servemen.htm
And here they explain that a Sampras "flat" serve is far from flat web.archive.org/web/20170217052941/advancedtennis.com/findings/findservespin.htm
Agree. Laver was a role model for Pete, not just for strokes, but his on court demeanour. And I remember Serena from way back, as a youngster, saying how she admired Pete's game, and modelled herself on it. He had the finest serve and second serve in the men's game, and Serena's the best in the women's game, with the same element of disguise, because the toss was always the same.
This and the 7 sins of tennis are my 2 favorite videos of your channel! grand merci!
Excellent as always!
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Great video, Thanks for sharing..
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That was fascinating. Thanks.
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Excellent analysis Simon - great vid mate!
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fantastic analysis once again
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Great video analysis
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Wahh, great analyses job ! Thanks so much 👏
My pleasure!
Great video, thanks!
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Very comprehensive analysis 👍🎾🙏
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Hello Simon. I listened to your podcast on functional tennis just couple of days back. It is completely inspiring
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Extremely well made video. Really appreciate the detailed analysis of arguably the greatest serve ever. It is sheer poetry in motion.
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So great analyse of Sampras's serve. I'll try to watch it many times to not loose any detail. 🙏🙏🙏
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Fairly new to this game. There is something so smooth and amazing about the Sampras serve. Very nice video and breakdown of his serve motion.
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Great video on serve!
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Never missed his matches. ❤️
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Perfect! Thanks!
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@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial I don't know if you have already done this but prematch warm-ups and cool downs?
Loved watching Pete serve. He could hit a dime on any spot in the service box!
Pistol Pete 💪
Really impressive thank you.
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One of the very best biomechanical tennis analysis out there. 👍
Appreciate that
Loved the video Simon. Great copy also of the Sampras serve :)
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Awesome... Videos... Sampras is my favorite😍
You have a terrific serve too. Great analyses. Thankyou
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Great video. The elbow and wrist snap provides that extra mph and the extra kick on the serve too
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Pistol Pete was at his best when I played a lot of junior tennis (for fun) and I was an Agassi fan. I just now realize that my serve-style is similar to this style. So secretly I must have been inspired by him. Now if I could only get the same results as he did. Thank you for this Simon.
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Thanks for the video. I always felt that loose was bad, but it always felt better than tight.
Thank you!
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Great breakdown as always, it would be cool if you did it for Ivanisevic serve as well
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EXCELLENT!!!!
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bravo!!!!! The detail with a turn of a tossing arm,,
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I love these types of videos. Would be cool to see an analysis of Johansson's serve(or Dustin Brown. Their serve styles are pretty similar).
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C'est l'exemple même du relâchement au service ''effortless'' Des explications intéressantes de votre part Thank U guy
What makes Sampras's serve so unique to place him arguably the best serve of all time IMO is his second serve. Most players' second serve slow down quit amount that they have to really rely on "kick" to survive the return but Sampras second serve does not slow down that much like others, only around 10 to 15 miles per hour, still at around 110+ miles per hour making it just not much different from his 1st serve except with even better accuracy and reliability.
Totally agree. Plenty of his opponents said it was like he had 2 first serves, because the second serve was so good.
Very detailed. Thank you. Now, I have any more appreciation for Pete...
A true legend of the game
Great analysis! I think Sampras had the best serve of all time 👍
Definitely one of the best, maybe not on Isner or Karlovic’s level but for his height, magnificent
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial Isner and Karlovic are great too, but their height has a lot to do with it. Sampras had great technique everyone can emulate. Also, his placement on serves was the best. His second serve was the best. The "clutch" factor of his serves (getting out of love-40's, break points, winning game points) I consider the best ever.
@@CoachAdrian Also, Pete's serve was so effective because it set up his next shot so well. Isner and Karlovic might have faster serves, but they don't follow up those big serves up as well as Sampras.
@@EndoftheTownProductions That's true. Sampras knew what to do with the next shot. Isner/Karlovic sometimes expects an ace to simply happen
We all copied Sampras's serve growing up lol Perfection like Federer.
Absolutely 😎
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He didn't have the biggest serve? He had a monster serve that would still be one of the fastest today. He was dropping 130+ MPH bombs.
Ivanisevic, Krajicek, Rusedski, Phili, Rosset and a few others served faster than Sampras during his career. Of course he was still a serve monster
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial true, Kraijicek and Goran had great serves, and they were bombs. Pistol Pete may have been a touch slower, but if you look at the top 10 players today, he'd still have the biggest serve of the lot. And of course, he had the greatest 2nd serve of all time. Keep up the great work guys, love the channel.
Your serve is the best I have ever seen from a coaching video.
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Great video Sampras serve the the greatest no one comes close . It’s effortless
A stroke that will never be replicated
This is very interesting, I hadn't previously read/noticed that Sampras took so many fingers off the handle during his wind-up... do think there are individual elements that would help recreational players to incorporate into their current serves or is every piece so dependent on every other that it would cause problems in a service motion that doesn't otherwise look like Pete's?
Great analysis as always. I'd like you to analyse some other pro player strokes in the future, but not elite, top-notch players, so that you explain where there is room for improvement. For example, can you analyse Norrie's backhand? It's one of the strangest in the tour, maybe the strangest among the top 100 ATP plauers.
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Great video on the greatest stroke in tennis period.
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Thank you, Sampras serve os insane
No doubt!
Sampras had a serve that combined a lot of pace and extreme spin (similar to the Nadal forehand). Brilliant placement of serve, also. Sampras had a very flexible shoulder and back, when you see his serving motion, on top of this.
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"sitting in a chair" - that is one of the secrets to this serve - nice description!
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Pete Sampras , greatest Serve and volley player all time.
A true legend of the sport
McEnroe Sampras edberg becker. Serve volleys great four.
@@robocop5935 I agree . Pat Rafter should be added.
Possibly the best athlete to ever play the game. Unreal leg explosion.
Thanks! Growing up in the '80s and '90s, Pistol Pete holds a special place in my heart. Thought he'd be GOAT for the rest of my life.
Question: is there not a higher risk of injury with that ending elbow snap? Always looks to me like it could lead to injury and is probably not worth trying to develop.
For sure it places more pressure on the shoulder, the rotator cuff in particular. Sampras did a lot of work on that region to strengthen it and reduce the risk of injury, but that requires a lot of work on a daily basis
I don’t recall him ever having shoulder problems. His back was fussy. Maybe stress from that serve? But likely just playing a lot of tennis on hard courts.
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@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial thank you TTT and coach Simon.
I have naturally developed that bent elbow position that Pete has. You mentioned, extending too far and accelerating, can cause injury. What would be the proper way of doing the non-sampras extension then? In other words, is the difference between developing an injury and not stopping the acceleration immediately after contact vs continuing to accelerate through the follow through and risking injury?
Still able to throw 210+ serve when needed.. best serve!
Absolutely
I’ve watched multiple videos on the continental grip and some say it’s knuckle and heel on bevel 2 and some say knuckle on bevel 2 and heel on bevel 1. Which one is it or does it come down to personal preference?
Hi Simon,
I’m wondering what is the technique that Sampras use in his 1st serve? Flat or Kick?
Please help me to know it..
Excellent analysis. Thank you, Simon. Question: any downside to throwing the ball inline with the base line (like Sampras)?
The downside to the inline "rainbow" toss is that it requires perfect execution/identical movement and precise timing from the player on every single toss. A traditional "placed into the court" toss moves (nearly) straight up and straight down, so if the player has a slight variation in the lifting phase due to nerves or physical tiredness, they can easily make some small adjustments in their rythym to allow the ball to rise or drop back into their ideal contact zone and still hit the shot. The inline "rainbow" toss, on the other hand, moves in an arc from right to left over the player, so you cannot adjust the timing of the stroke to accommodate any changes in your toss whatsoever, you MUST strike the ball at the microsecond it passes through the ideal contact point, because it's traveling out of that zone and away from you. A traditional ball toss is often compared to lifting the ball into the air so that it stops completely at its apex and is struck during its descent when it's slow and almost stationary in the air. A rainbow inline toss requires you to hit a moving target with another moving target. It's harder.
This is hardly a problem for professional players who hit serves every day and have extensive warmups and can put full confidence in their abilty to throw a perfect identical arc in perfect alignment with the baseline struck with perfect timing on command and under pressure.
For recreational players who maybe get to play tennis here and there on the weekends with substantial gaps between practices, this is a taller order. A slight error in a traditional ball toss will still result in a playable ball, a slight error in a rainbow inline toss means you can't connect at all. A Sampras-type ball toss allows for the potential for greater reward in terms of disguising your shot selection and delivering precision blows that are hard to read, but it also allows for a greater risk of mis-timing, mis-placing and frustration if you can't execute it flawlessly. The benefits outweigh the risks for a number of professionals, but that might not be the case for a lot of other players. Like anything in tennis you have to find what works best for you and your game, at the point where you currently are in your development.
@@LunarEclipsism1 Zachary, thank you so much for the detailed reply. This is very useful and helpful information!
Zach has summed it up perfectly.
It’s also harder to toss from right to left but also get it traveling inside the court compared with the traditional toss
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Kudos! Great lesson! Gullikson would have Pete toss the ball the same way and call out which serve to hit only after the ball was in the air. Following this, does it indicate that Pete would toss in a counter-clockwise arc and hit slice, flat, and kick at their respective points along that arc? This opposed to tossing vertically to each serve contact point and telegraphing that serve? Whew!
It was actually Pete Fischer, Sampras's first coach, not Gullikson, who did that routine of calling out which way after the ball toss. I believe Robert Lansdorp also helped Sampras with the serve. Sharapova had a similar serve, before her injuries. Sampras had won his first US Open before he teamed up with Gullikson, and his serve was already perfected.
Can you please make a video demonstrating Boris Becker’s serve? Thank you
any tips on how to keep your back foot from moving over to your serving side ?
Would love to see the Edberg serve with the same analysis. So far nobody has done it on CZcams.
Great Job, Simon!
Where are located in UK and how can I contact you?
Many thanks Jorg,
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hi coach does he push off back leg? or just pure stretch cycle
When I went to your website, it tried to make me "update Chrome"... is this an issue at my end or your end?
It's a Rajeev Ram serve analysis as well ;)
Hi, Top Tennis team, How high does Pete Sampras throw the tennis ball up into the air when he serves?
Also, can you please dissect his second serve which no one has ever talk about, with regards to his ball toss?
Sampras’ coach famously stated that the goal was to toss the ball no higher than 6 inches above Pete’s contact point on the serve
That allows a smoother racquet moovement through the ball and more spin can be applied
What racket do you use?
Hi Simon, I’m an eleven year old kid and I learn alot of tennis from you. Can you please make a serve analysis of ivanišević? Who do you think is a better server
Ivanisevic is a very strong server too, I’d say Goran probably had a better first serve and Sampras the better 2nd, although it’s so close
I saw this late because I’d never thought you’d actually replied but thanks for telling your opinion
beast of a serve, i dont know haw he can pronate that way
Big thumping sound coming from Simon's serve. Simon is body double for Sampras!
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best second service in existence
100%
hi, great vid, thanks. I am wondering if you could make a comparison and analysis of Fededer's slice serve vs S.Williams's ? these two have the best slice serve on tour from male and female players, however their techniques are quite different, I mean the way of pronation. I'd like to know which one is better for amateurs to copy?
On your serve, do you always finish / follow-thru like that? (As you did in the opener?)
No, just trying to copy pistol Pete
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial Ohhh, I get it! How fast is that going? 130mph?
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Federer and Pete's games are similar including the serve. In fact, Roger and Pete played the same Wilson racquet in the famous Wimbledon match in 2001.
Sampras was one of Roger’s idols growing up. He copied much of Sampras’ service motion
No way are Federer's volleying skills as good as Sampras. I remember Fred Stolle, one of the great Aussie serve and volleyers and a great doubles player as well as singles, saying how he couldn't believe that a world no. 1, as Fed was at the time, could have reached that position with such poor volleys. I think Fed improved over time, in that department, but he never had Sampras's natural ability at volleying.
Simon, great video as usual, but they do you mean by lack of power? Sampras’ serves were as powerful as they come hahahaha
Sampras’ average serve speed was 120mph
Not the fastest on tour.
Rusedski held the record at that time with a 149mph
That was my point
@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial I thought PETE's serve average was closer to 130, especially from his mid 20s on when he became more exclusively serve and volley as opposed to an allcourter like in his prime.
Sampras served between 120 - 130 mph. He could serve faster than that if he was using today's racquets. His serve combined pace and extreme spin.
Sampras had the best service ever, 2nd Serve was better than most 1st Serves
Couldn’t agree more
Brillant analysis- but you should leave the Sampras photos up longer so we can absorb them
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Hi Simon, why do you think Sampras's serve wasn't the fastest? He had all of the elements required for a huge serve but I think his fastest serve on tour was 135/140pmph.
Was it because he hit with so much spin on the serve? Or did he focus on placement over power?
Would love to get your thoughts,on this.
Grant.
Hi Grant
I think his main focus points were the placement, spin rate and disguise so power was an added bonus.
He’s only 6’1 so that also plays a factor.
Most of the bigger servers are 6’5 and above so have a higher trajectory and longer levers to work with
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@@TopTennisTrainingOfficial Hi Simon thanks for the reply and some great points you make.
However I did hear once from somewhere that pete Sampras would often crank his serve to over 150mph in practise. Not sure if this is true or not...
Also I'd imagine his racket probably limited his power potential as it had a v stiff frame and was,a control racket. Just imagine how insane his serve would have been with todays rackets and strings...
Grant
Biomechanics at its best
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Sampras is type of B1 in 'the theory of 4stance '.
Now this the way to serve ....
Turn
Rotate the hips
Tranfer body weight in to the court
'Stay loose'
The perfect serve ...
his racket drop is some kind of open rather than on edge, am i right?
Correct, his huge range of motion in the shoulder allowed this to work perfectly whilst reaching a supinated position