Summary: <img width="1024" height="576" src="https://blog.tennisevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/use-the-slice-serve-on-the-deuce-court-1024x576.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="float: left; margin: 0 15px 15px 0;"><p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-13137 size-large" title="Why You Must Use The Slice Serve In The Deuce Court" src="https://blog.tennisevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/use-the-slice-serve-on-the-deuce-court-1024x576.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="576"></p> <div class="smart-track-player-container stp-color-2d7bbf-EEEEEE"></div> <h2>Show Notes</h2> <p>Hey, it’s Jeff Salzenstein, founder of Tennis Evolution, and former top 100 ATP pro, also USTA High Performance coach. And today, I’ve got a powerful tip that I want to share with you. We’re going to talk about the serve.</p> <p>Now, what do you think is one of the most impactful serves that you can hit as a tennis player? Got any clues? Well, I really like the slice serve out wide in the deuce court if you’re a righty. So, here are some reasons why I like this serve.</p> <p>Number one: you can start every game serving out wide and pulling your opponent off the court. So, you’re opening up the court, and then you can play that first ball to the open court. There’s nothing like being able to get your opponent off the court and to be able to run them on the next ball. So, you’re doing it on the first point of the game, you can do it at 30 all, and you can do it in a deuce, and it just opens up the court so that you can see the opening to hit to.</p> <p>Now, there’s another benefit there. Again, assuming you’re playing a right-handed player when you play to the open court, you’re making your opponent hit a running backhand. And I don’t know about you, but most players do not like to hit backhands on the run, me included. So, you definitely want to practice the wide slice in the deuce court if you’re a righty, and of course, if you’re a lefty. you’ve got to own that wide slice in the ad court.</p> <p>I’m a lefty. I loved hitting that can opener out wide in the ad court on big points, but those righties out there, you’ve got to practice the wide serve in the deuce court and own that serve. Practice it more than any other serve.</p> <p>Roger Federer uses this serve unbelievably well, and he uses it often, even when his opponents know that the serve is going there, there’s still not much they can do about it, because if they don’t hit a clean winner, which is very difficult, they’re going to be on the run on the next shot. So, I definitely want you to practice that wide serve as much as possible.</p> <p>Now, before we go today, I want to give you a couple little technical tips that can help you. First of all, when you’re on the deuce court serving, if you want to get more wide slice, there’s a couple of things that you can do.</p> <p>First, as I said, you can stand out wider. So, in singles, you can stand</p>
