The Serve Toss, Pancake Serves, Overhead Tips, & Tennis Con 9 with Peter Freeman

Peter Freeman is one of my favorite tennis coaches to speak with because he has so much experience coaching club doubles players. Like me, Peter creates a ton of online content, including one of the largest online tennis conferences, Tennis Con. I've presented at Tennis Con for the past 3 years and cannot recommend it enough for club players.

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I spoke with Peter to preview Tennis Con 9, which is a little different this year. We also discussed some takeaways from our doubles camp earlier this summer, including the two types of serves at the club level, building a chip return, and fixing your overhead.

• How TennisCon started and what’s new this year
• Challenges, Easter eggs, leaderboard, and prizes (including a free ball machine)
• The importance of learning from many coaches, not one
• Continental vs pancake serves
• How high should your ball toss actually be?
• Executing the chip return
• Overhead rules to help you not miss
• What tennis can learn from pickleball culture

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Learn more about Peter & follow:

• Instagram
• Crunch Time Coaching

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Chapters

• 0:00 TennisCon 9 Announcement & Invite
• 2:47 What TennisCon Is & How It Began
• 5:27 The Challenge Format & Prizes
• 7:17 Why Shorter Lessons Increase Action
• 9:36 Preview: Favorite Serve and Tactics Lessons
• 12:58 Start Date, Leaderboard, Early Access
• 15:20 Value of Learning From Many Coaches
• 19:39 Continental vs Pancake Serve: Who Needs What
• 23:20 Building a Real Second Serve Timeline
• 26:27 Optimizing the Pancake Serve
• 30:21 The Chip Return: Why and How
• 34:31 Three Collision Volleys Explained
• 38:07 Overheads: Putaway Myths and Safer Choices
• 42:29 Serve-Style Overheads From Deep