Because you're playing outside with the wind and the sun playing a
huge part in the outcome of your game, its much better for a player to
practice serving deep into the opposite court because the wind can blow a
ball that seems a few inches outside the baseline, back into the court.
When
the wind is up and kicking, players often call a ball that has been
served high and deep in the court "out' when it actually gets blown or
drops back in especially when it comes to the high velocity jump serve.
That's why its advantageous to play on the side where the wind is
blowing into your face (not away from you) this way, you can spike
harder and serve harder into the wind and the ball is likely to stay or
blow back into the court.
As I mentioned before the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, especially when you are serving from the middle of the court to the opposite middle of the court. But you can do yourself a favor by serving from one of your cross court corners to the cross court deep corner on the opposite side because not only are you forcing the passer to have to turn their shoulders and eyes off the net to pass the ball, but you are giving yourself more court area to serve the ball into. When you serve cross court you have much more area to serve to, so you can take a bit more risk and really serve much harder while aiming for that far corner.
Is it tough enough? That's what players ask themselves about their serves. What's great about serving deep in the court is that if you don't jump serve, your serve doesn't have to have a lot of power or force, it just has to be placed well in the court. The deep serve is a tactical serve that with a lot of repetitions in practice you can use to score a lot of direct points with in a game.
When an opposing player has to pass or serve receive a ball that has been served to them above their waist or in their corner, they are forced to move backwards in the court which means they have to
a) pass the ball from a lot farther back,
b) get it all the way up to the middle of the court or to the net,
c) while on the move and
d) with more precision, to their partner who's waiting to set the ball. Then, they have to
e) cover more of the distance in the court to get back to their usual starting position for their spike approach.
Strategy: If you and your partner pick one person to serve the ball deep to for a good portion of the game, you are putting pressure on that person to cover a lot of court area and I guarantee you (unless that person is in extra good shape) that player will quickly get tired and will start to make unforced errors because they are so tired having to play all those balls. The secret is to stick to your game plan strategy. If you alternate and serve to both players then they both have a chance to recuperate and gain their strength back between plays.
As I mentioned before the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, especially when you are serving from the middle of the court to the opposite middle of the court. But you can do yourself a favor by serving from one of your cross court corners to the cross court deep corner on the opposite side because not only are you forcing the passer to have to turn their shoulders and eyes off the net to pass the ball, but you are giving yourself more court area to serve the ball into. When you serve cross court you have much more area to serve to, so you can take a bit more risk and really serve much harder while aiming for that far corner.
Is it tough enough? That's what players ask themselves about their serves. What's great about serving deep in the court is that if you don't jump serve, your serve doesn't have to have a lot of power or force, it just has to be placed well in the court. The deep serve is a tactical serve that with a lot of repetitions in practice you can use to score a lot of direct points with in a game.
When an opposing player has to pass or serve receive a ball that has been served to them above their waist or in their corner, they are forced to move backwards in the court which means they have to
a) pass the ball from a lot farther back,
b) get it all the way up to the middle of the court or to the net,
c) while on the move and
d) with more precision, to their partner who's waiting to set the ball. Then, they have to
e) cover more of the distance in the court to get back to their usual starting position for their spike approach.
Strategy: If you and your partner pick one person to serve the ball deep to for a good portion of the game, you are putting pressure on that person to cover a lot of court area and I guarantee you (unless that person is in extra good shape) that player will quickly get tired and will start to make unforced errors because they are so tired having to play all those balls. The secret is to stick to your game plan strategy. If you alternate and serve to both players then they both have a chance to recuperate and gain their strength back between plays.
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