Alex De Minaur Serve Analysis- Don’t Do This!

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PERFORMANCE PLUS SERVE & STROKE VIDEO ANALYSIS DESCRIPTION

Hello everybody John Craig here with Performance Plus tennis welcome to today’s video we’re going to break down the serve of Alex deor and we’re going to compare it side by side to the serve of Felix o Alim and I can tell you that there’s some things about Alex’s serve that I

Think he could really work on and improve the performance of his serve and really potentially eliminate the possibility of having an injury as well um surprising to me that he um does some of the things he does on a serve but uh let’s get right into that but before we

Do stick around to the end because I have an opportunity for you if you’re interested in getting your serve evaluated I would love to take a look at your serve and give you some advice so stick around to the end we’re going to talk about that and let’s get right into

It here so you know the setup looks really good here I mean Alex is in a position here and his his lineman serving into the ad Court where he’s really got his feet set up so he’s really sideways to his Target and it looks fantastic okay in fact it looks

Very similar to to that of uh Felix really really close right uh the feet position right so let’s get into it here and let’s watch and see what happens so when he moves into it look how he look how he brings his foot I’m going to get

Past this one and I’m going to go to the slow motion one here for you watch how he brings his foot past his left foot right there and this is where his trouble begins and if we compare that to Felix for example and we let Felix get

Into his serve here watch how he sets his foot in behind the left foot and his alignment is beautiful okay so they’re both serving into the ad court but vastly different positions okay you know we take a look here at uh Felix everything is in alignment the

Feet are lined up the knees are beautifully lined up the hips are lined up with the knees the shoulders are lined up everything is as in a a unit of movement it’s beautifully aligned to create the maximum amount of power if we look at Alex it’s kind of amazing now

Because his right foot has gone past his left foot he’s hardly loading into it at all he’s just on on the on the basically on the very much the top of the ball the foot the toes what’s fascinating here is it looks like he’s going to serve This

Way everything is lined up to say serve the ball off to the left even to the left of the deche Court which is crazy which is so interesting right so he’s really got himself in a position where he can’t uncoil and rotate into the ball very effectively really fascinating the

Difference in these two positions the other key thing to note here as well is the position of of the elbow and in the case of Felix it is in a straight line and my friend Jeff salusin calls this elbowing the enemy where the elbows really set in alignment with your

Shoulders and that’s a beautiful position okay if we compare that to uh Alex look where his uh elbow is floating out to the right so his shoulder alignment is literally like this but his elbow is floating out to the right and what that what happens here is is that

He just lacks the range of motion um in in this key part of the arm which is the upper part of the arm which is really right in here okay this upper part of the arm is key to making a big move because that’s what part really moves

The elbow okay the body has to move but that’s certainly a big factor so let’s take a look at this this is what’s fascinating here I’m going to put a Mark here where where Felix has his elbow now and then I’m going to show you where his

El where where his elbow is when the wreck gets the bottom oh look how much that is moved beautiful huh now let’s go over here to to Alex and let’s put a mark on Alex and let’s go to the retrop okay wow what a difference huh huge

Difference in the the range of motion that we’re getting I mean you can if you just compare use the racket as a as a guide for measuring you can see the dis difference between uh the two lines here is less than the racket by far okay okay

You can compare that by just looking at the racket you know distance there and if we look at if we look at uh Felix we can clearly see that the distance between the two lines is more than the racket so he’s getting a lot more elbow

Drive and range and what happens as a result is that you can generate more power we can get more power when we have more length of movement and that’s why it’s so important that we get into a good strong coil position the best that we can possibly do and it’s different

For everybody and obviously when professional athletes but the more you can get into a good long coil position here strong coil position you can make a good long movement look at this beautiful movement up to the ball that’s just perfect that’s a perfect movement okay and it really originates in this

Trophy position now if we go back and take another look at uh Alex here look at his trophy position not quite past the trophy position I got a little bit past let’s take a a look again there it is look how that right leg is hardly

Loaded at all there’s no weight on it so he’s really left side dominant and as he makes his move here look how much he’s facing the net crazy huh so what’s the big takeaway from this the big takeaway is get into a strong trophy position make sure that you’ve got a really good

Alignment okay that your elbows in alignment with your shoulders get into a nice 45° angle here okay don’t face the net early and often times it’s the back foot that’s the culprit so if you are ined a pinpoint server keep that right foot nestled in behind the left don’t let it drift past

The left foot because what happens is it just encourages your hips and shoulders to open up way more than you want them to be okay this is a complete misalignment with the target okay and what happens is is Alex goes out and he basically faces the net and he just

Tomahawks straight forward and when he makes contact his head is actually behind his shoulder his head is actually closer to the camera than the shoulder and in fact and there’s a video here uh on the channel on on my surf playlist about the position of the head the head

Should actually be in front of the shoulder at contact can’t really see it from this angle uh that clearly but if you looked at it from the side side coming in you would actually see that the head is actually in front of the shoulder the shoulders behind the head

And Alex is facing the net so early that he’s actually got his head behind his shoulder and that’s a very weak position to be in but nonetheless he’s a great athlete he’s a professional tennis player he can he has a pretty big serve but could it be better yes it could so

These are the key takeaways now before you leave um got an offer for you I love to analyze serves and if you click in the link in the description down below you can see how I offer a program to evaluate your serve and I will do the

Exact same thing I’m doing here with Alex I’ll pull your serve in a video in U I’ll compare it side by side with the pro of your choice um I can do front views I can do side views back views and give you concrete advice on how you can

Improve your serve performance so click on the link in the description down below if you’re interested and um I we’ll take a look at that and we’ll take it from there and you can you can get a video review of your Surf and I’d love

To do that for you um thanks so much for watching today’s video I hope this was very helpful to you uh please give us a like uh leave your comments down below I I always respond to every single comment and if you haven’t done so already subscribe to the channel and finally

Stick around because we’ve got a lot more coming here at Performance Plus tennis thanks for watching today’s video and we’ll see you soon