Your Strokes: John Daly Serve Part 1

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Which serve is the real John Daly?

When I look at John’s serve I can see that he is an experienced competitor. His serve just looks aggressive and he doesn’t hold back on the motion. But the question is which motion? John sent me first serves from several angles. Half of them are hit with a radical pinpoint stance, the other half with a platform.

Maybe he did that on purpose to see what I’d say.And what I say is, it’s probably not a great idea to have multiple serving stances. So one question is what stance should he adopt? It won’t be a big surprise what my answer is, if you’ve read some of the articles on the serve in the Advanced Tennis section.(Click Here.)

John asked me to look specifically at his serve as it relates to doubles, and I plan to say more about that in Part 2 next month, including some thoughts on his second serve, and the possible pluses minuses of the stances when it comes to getting up to the net faster. We’ll address whether than really is a separate issue, and what if anything can really…