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The Mental Game: Pressure Serve Drill
If you want to play better under pressure, you’ve got to practice under pressure.
Use this drill from Kathy Woods, the director of tennis at the USTA National Campus, to simulate serving under pressure by trying to hit consecutive targets on the court.
Kathy Woods is the director of tennis at the USTA National Campus at Lake Nona in Orlando, Fla.
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