Right-hander learning to serve with left hand

Sep 05, 2010
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by: NA

As an orthopaedic surgeon and an avid tennis player I totally sympathise with this predicament and have come across it in a couple of tennis playing patients before. First of all congratulations on the immensely difficult task of developing your strokes left handed! I am very impressed.

With regards to the serve, you have two options. If you have a shoulder problem etc., you can still develop a right handed under hand spin serve, and I know two players who have developed quite a lethal one at least in ordinary club play,after lots and lots of practice. If you want to develop a left handed serve then I am afraid you will need to start holding the racket throat (choking right up) and start serving practice from inside the service box and only move back one step when you can land ten consecutive serves in, and so forth. You will find the left arm works OK after a while but the legs and trunk find it harder to adapt to a complete leftie serve motion... it took my patient two years to develop what was an acceptable left arm serve to him, so it seems a long haul but I admire his' and your resilience in never giving up...

Right-hander learning to serve with left hand

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