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The wide slice serve demonstrated on the grass at Mission Hills Resort.
If you examine the records of most of the great servers in tennis history, they all had the wide slice serve down cold. Pete Sampras had maybe the best wide serve in the history of the game. The great lefties like John McEnroe and Rod Laver had it in the ad court. In today’s game it’s the same. Roger Federer wins a lot of points with wide slice serves, even on the second serve.
It should be an important part of the service game of good players at any level. But you have to have the courage to hit it, and to do that, you have to have confidence that you really own the shot. The majority of players don’t.
Pancho
There was one other player who is had a pretty good wide serve–in fact he was one of the greatest servers of all time-Pancho Gonzales. In this article I want to share the secret he taught me to hitting the wide slice, because I think any player can use it at any level. When I was playing my best serve was my wide slice, and I owe…