{"id":1086,"date":"2026-10-17T01:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T01:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2026-10-17T01:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T01:33:10","slug":"alw-lob-serve-deep-disguised-accelerate-low-to-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"ALW Lob Serve: Deep, Disguised, Accelerate Low-to-High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Queen of Pickleball Anna Leigh Waters reveal secret behind her lob serve #pickleball #pickleballtips\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OPU0-xb8H-o?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<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Anna Leigh Waters on the lob serve: get it deep so returners take time and arrive late to the kitchen, and use the high bounce that leaves people uncomfortable above their strike zone. Same pre-serve routine as a hard serve for disguise.<\/p>\n<p>Technique: drop the paddle and wrist low, then accelerate even harder low-to-high than on a pace serve. After contact, split-step and move \u2014 short returns are common, and watching your &#8220;amazing&#8221; lob wastes the advantage.<\/p>\n<h2>Key takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Deep lob serve delays kitchen arrival + lifts them out of strike zone<\/li>\n<li>Same routine as other serves for disguise<\/li>\n<li>Drop paddle low and accelerate more (low-to-high); then split-step<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Action items<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Hit 15 lob serves with an explicit wrist drop + louder acceleration cue<\/li>\n<li>After every lob serve, take two recovery steps before the return lands<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"tdd-newsletter\">\n<p><strong>Get the 5 best pickleball tips every week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/subscribe-forms.beehiiv.com\/v3\/loader.js\" data-beehiiv-form=\"0e5f3fe0-e4d3-4036-8d7f-c33b311980b2\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedropdrive.beehiiv.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe free<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Leigh Waters on the lob serve: get it deep so returners take time and arrive late to the kitchen, and use the high bounce that leaves people uncomfortable above their strike zone. Same pre-serve routine as a hard serve for disguise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,200,381],"tags":[606,719,889,890],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serves","category-strategy","category-technique","tag-anna-leigh-waters","tag-disguise","tag-lob-serve","tag-serve-strategy"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/01-doubles-at-the-net-over-shoulder-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedropdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}