Tennis experts agree: the second serve is even more important than the first serve. The reason is simple, if you have a good second serve, you can afford to make a mistake on the first. This gives you lots of leeway to try various things on your first serve. Unfortunately, not everyone has a good second serve.
One way of approaching the problem of a poor first serve is focusing on landing the first serve. You can do this by taking some pace off of the serve in order to get a higher percentage. It will still be effective, and will prevent you from having to hit that weak second serve.
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