Donna Vekic’s Serve Vs. Coco Gauff’s

When developing a new player’s game, the teaching professional’s goals are centered around developing efficient, repeatable swings that will hold up under pressure. The simpler the motion, the more likely it’s able to handle stress. When building the foundation of a player’s game, you take their natural ability and mold it into a style of play that matches their personality. With proper biomechanical instruction, a player’s game will continue to develop as they gain more and more tournament experience. Mechanics that are limiting will eventually cause the player’s game to plateau and their development will be stunted.

Complicated, limiting mechanics will decrease the likelihood of that stroke holding up under pressure. Players will start to develop “cracks” in the “foundation” of their game, increasing the likelihood of their strokes collapsing. Maintaining confidence under these conditions is extremely difficult. Soon the lack of confidence becomes a “self-fulfilling prophecy” and the player soon expects to fail. All players on the professional tennis tour have achieved great heights but can still be subject to these breakdowns.

When I first thought about how I wanted to write this article, I was just going to write exclusively on Donna Vekic’s serve. But the more I…