Serve

Serve is the most exciting part of Tennis and is it also the hardest. It’s very tempting to try to fire an ace on your first day, but it will only frustrate you. Instead, just start with the basic serves as covered in the beginner tutorial and once you’re relatively comfortable with ground strokes – forehand and backend – work on improving your serve. Keep in mind that it’s a journey, you will gradually improve as you practice regularly.

A comprehensive tutorial on serve covering set-up, grip, body positioning, toss, swing, and contact.
Hit A Perfect Serve (Powerful Tennis Tips). It’s long (almost 29 minutes), but a wonderful tutorial showing how to hit a perfect serve.
A simple technique to increase power on your serve
Improve your service with Serve and Volleyball
5 Tips For Faster Serves: coil, toss into court, arm position (elbow facing back, racket facing down), hit birthday hat, reactive brake (tossing arm smell arm pit)

Ready for more? Want to improve power on your forehand shots or learn how to return serves? Check out the Advanced section.