Tour Strokes: Jensen Brooksby Serve

Jensen Brooksby has been creating a stir. His strong results in Washington and at Newport were followed by 3 match wins in the U.S. Open before taking the first set off Novak Djokovic and losing in 4 in the round of 16. His ranking has shot up to 81.

During the Novak match his serve got a lot of comment from John and Pat McEnroe. His top speed on his first serve was around 115mph. The consensus was that for a guy 6’4″ with huge groundstrokes it should higher. During the broadcast, Andy Roddick texted Mac and said if Jensen came to Texas he could “fix” his serve in 4 days.

Enhanced?

My opinion is it doesn’t need to be “fixed.” I say enhanced. Recently we had a chance to film some super slow motion footage of Jensen’s serve. Here is what I saw.

First of all it looks obvious that Andy Roddick was Jensen’s model, because of the abbreviated backswing. It’s a perfectly good model if you have great shoulder flexibility, which it appears Jensen does. (For an article on a former pro who couldn’t make that work and gained 10mph when he opened up his backswing, Click Here.)