How to return NASTY serves – 4 top tips

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It’s the nightmare scenario. We’re playing a match and our opponent’s serves are super difficult to return. We just can’t seem to read the spin and make error after error. The match quickly slips away, all because we can’t return the serves.

What can we do in this situation? How can we return more of these nasty serves? In this video I give a few practical tips on how you can return very difficult serves. To demonstrate, I take on Craig Bryant, who has a phenomenal strong service game. If I can return Craig’s serves. then there is hope for us all!


Returning serves – online course

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