The flat serve can help when you're ahead in a match and feeling confident enough to lose the spin. Since it's riskier than a spin serve, it's more of a first serve than anything else. There will ...

The 18th-ranked German has one of the best flat serves in the world -- Katrina Adams explains here how to replicate it. [Originally published in the March 2012 issue of TENNIS.] One of the WTA's ...

flat serve that’s easy to return. Tennis players are used to covering a large court, so they often commit heavily to one side, especially on forehands. Stay centered and be mindful of your ...

No investigation has characterised the kinematics of all three serve types for the upper extremity and back. Methods Seven NCAA Division I male tennis players performed three successful flat, kick and ...