Dominating Tennis
Lesson 2 of 4 · Move and react · 6 min

Read the server.
Keep updating from the ball.

Inspect possible cues, update from flight, and check what survives a live return.

Free guideHow to read the serve and return fasterThe short answer, the numbers and one drill →
01
Feel the time budget drain against a 200 km/h serve
02
Explore possible toss, trunk and racquet cues
03
The occlusion game and a read-the-toss drill
04
Keep call scores separate from live-return results
Watch it traced

The stroke, eight instants at a time.

Traced frame by frame from real footage, then lit like the rest of the Academy. Flip through it: the shape of the swing is the lesson before a word of it is written.

Sampras’s serve, instant 1 of 8
FIG. 18 · SAMPRAS’S SERVE
Sampras’s serve: eight instants traced from the footage, frame for frame. Hover or tap to flip.
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