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The Main Uses of the Slice: To Return Great Speed on Service Navigation   Browse Other Pages Homepage A Viewpoint on the Game How It Began A Viewpoint on the Game 2 A Viewpoint on the Game 3 Concentration; Practice Condition, Physical and Mental Keep Your Eye on the Ball Footwork and Weight Control Women's Tennis The Grips The Service The Drive The Chop and the Slice The Volley The Subtle Shots Courage Your Opponent's Weaknesses General Tactics Outside Conditions Pressure on Your Opponent Doubles and Mixed Doubles The Coaching Job Legendary Tennis Players Olympic Tennis Does Youth Rule Tennis Hall of Fame Amateurism to Open Tennis Some Defects in Tennis Doping Olympic Review Technology and Sport The Slice Service Flat Serve The American Twist The Drive The Backhand Drive Drive - The Main Uses The Volley Net Position The Volley Position The Overhead Smash The Half-Volley The Drop Shot The Mechanics of the Slice The Main Uses of a Slice The Grips Doubles and Mixed Doubles To Open the Court Doubles In Europe and US Legendary Tennis Players (1940's) Questions in Australian Tennis History of Australian Tennis History of Australian Tennis 2 History of Australian Tennis Players Women's Tennis in Australia Australian Tennis: Nature Ages of Tennis Players The Careers of Women Players Everything that applies to the defence against the fast drive is true of the defence against the fast service. The advantages are even greater because the server must actually start the point all over if you have simply sliced and floated the ball back into his deep court. All his service advantage has been lost, and psychologically the pressure grows each time his attacking service comes back in this manner. 1. To vary pace on your opponent, mixing it in with a drive, and to take pace out of great speed and slow up the tempo of a point (defence). 2. To return great speed on service (defence). 3. To handle shots that catch you out of position, particularly shots that bound too high to drive (defence). 4. As an advancing shot behind which to go to the net (attack).  Next Page:  The Net Game: The Volley; The Overhead Smash