Increasing Your Chances of Winning Points on Serve

Nick Wheatley

Now you have comprehensively developed your understanding of your own game (Click Here), based on a good understanding of the game as a whole (Click Here), it's time to get stuck into those marginal gains, and learn how to boost your chances a crucial few percent in all the main scenarios you will face during competitive matches.

The outcome of a point is not something you can ever control. Your chances of winning any single tennis point will always be less than 100%. When returning first serves, they will be lowest. They improve when you get to return second serves, and improve again when you successfully make your first serve.

Let's say normally your chances of winning a point when you make a first serve in a particular match is 65%. The rest of this article and series will look at how you can boost those odds by a few percentage points in many different situations, and how those crucial marginal gains can stack up and make the difference between winning and losing.