A Better Way To Warm Up Your Serve

In all the 50 years of my tennis life I learned to warm up my serve when playing by serving three balls and having my opponent catch them. Then my opponent would serve them back and I would catch them.

I have discovered a better way, however you will only do it this way if you are playing with a friend. If you are playing a tournament match, you will still warm up the same old way.

Here is how you do it;

You (or your opponent) will warm up your serve while the other player will warm up their return of serve. Warming up your return of serve does not mean hitting the ball back to your opponent, it means hitting the ball like you would if you were actually playing. Once you have finished warming your serve up, then your opponent can warm up his/her serve and you can warm up your return of serve.

When you do it this way, you get to practice your return of serve, and how often do you do that? I also find that I will hit more serves, so it is like going out and hitting a mini bucket of balls. And, how often do you do that?

How often have you missed your return of serve once the game starts (at least in the beginning) because you haven’t hit any return of serves when you have warmed up the old way?

So, go and use this way of warming up and see if you like it better than the old, usual way. I know I do.