The ability to control a tennis ball's spin has transformed the modern game ... it creates a force that makes it curve away from its straight-line path. Scientists call this the Magnus force ...

co-authored the book Technical Tennis: Racquets, Strings, Balls, Courts, Spin and Bounce with Crawford Lindsey. (Amazon Link is here: ) The work explores the physics of tennis and exposes some ...

Once you have started to master the basic serve technique you will be ready to move on to varying the serve with spin. Spin serves are most commonly used as second serves as they're easier to control ...