I searched on the Internet and found stories about other tennis players who had the same symptom as I did — difficulty with a tennis serve toss. In all of these articles, the people were ...

Then pretend you are going to serve and toss the ball into the air. If it stays in front of you as it should, the ball won’t hit the fence area above the gate.

The serve is the only time in tennis when the human hand, not the racket, dictates the direction and placement of the ball. And that makes starting with a good toss essential to winning.

So if I got the coin toss, I would always choose to return," Djokovic said at Roland Garros on Monday. "But the last, I don't know, 10 years, I would be only choosing to serve.

Loosen up. Make sure your fingers are relaxed before they serve. If you get a nervous, vice grip on the racquet before they even toss it up to serve. Your body has locked up. Bad “L” letter here.

I searched on the Internet and found stories about other tennis players who had the same symptom as I did — difficulty with a tennis serve toss. In all of these articles, the people were ...

So if I got the coin toss, I would always choose to return," Djokovic said at Roland Garros on Monday. "But the last, I don't know, 10 years, I would be only choosing to serve.

The coin toss winner in a tennis match gets the choice: to receive or serve first. And the pro players are surprisingly divided on it.