Benefits of a Fast Delivery Versus a Slow Delivery in Serving

This is a follow-on post to the one on hitting all tosses on your serve.
With that I don't mean hit a wildly errant toss that you can't reach without missing, but just don't get in the habit of doing the toss catch when it is slightly out of position.  Most servers have problems with their toss if they have the classic skyscraper toss that takes forever to fall back into position.  Meanwhile, wind can move the ball as you wait for it.

The Benefits of a fast serve delivery

The most important benefit of a faster delivery is that the toss height is minimal and therefore is less susceptible to wind and toss control issues.

Ideal Toss Height

The ideal toss height is one that you strike at full extension, but not hyper-extension,  and where the ball effectively sits still in the air as it transforms from a rising ball to a falling one.

Wind

When you have lots of wind or gusts of wind your benefit of having an abbreviated delivery with a just-high-enough-toss is a major advantage.  In really bad wind you can even shorten the toss to eye level with this practiced skill of a short and rapid delivery.    Those players with high tosses tend to have a miserable time on a windy day because their serve is grooved and timed for a ball that drops back into their strike zone.

Angle of Travel

Depending on how accurately you release the ball the angle of the travel is accentuated on a high toss where a low one that is hit not long after release simply has less time to travel out of position.

Timing

The need to time the drop on the serve toss is eliminated with a short delivery and toss.   A skyscraper toss on the other hand requires excellent timing of the fall of the ball relative to the backswing.  Examples of servers that had the high toss with timing problems are numerous.  The most memorable one for me is Sharapova though I do remember Ivanovic having problems.
Remember that once the ball begins to fall it is now a moving target and the speed of the drop limits the time it sits in the strike zone.  The higher the toss and the longer the drop the less time the ball will stay in the strike zone.  Lower tosses are easier to time and hit.

Conclusion

You'll find it easier to learn a serve if you focus on a short toss and when I say short I mean very close to your maximum extension and that can include your jump/hop up and into the court.  Depending on your jump height you'll need to increase the toss height to compensate for it.  In my case rather than increasing the height considerably I'd just put the ball further out in front which of course would pull me forward for a serve and volley play.