{"id":45977,"date":"2023-12-27T23:51:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T23:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45977"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:03:11","slug":"the-grip-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45977","title":{"rendered":"The hammer grip @ serve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45050\">David G<\/a> and I lost to Dave H and Cheri 5-7, 4-6 and 6-7 (5:7), down to the wire, but I picked up one good <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=45246\">advise on serving<\/a> from Cheri: the grip &#8211; holding it like a hammer.<\/p>\n<p>Again, I practiced serving before and during the game; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43689\">working on forehand<\/a> as well. Served an ace on my 2nd serve, and 4 doubles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#tennisserve #grip\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lnlvue_rjR4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; waiter&#8217;s tray is still so prominent &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#tennisserve #wainterstray\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p-_0I5-4K_A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although David G and I lost to Dave H and Cheri 5-7, 4-6 and 6-7 (5:7), down to the wire, but I picked up one good advise on serving from Cheri: the grip &#8211; holding it like a hammer. Again, I practiced serving before and during the game; and working on forehand as well. Served [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}