By Richard Pagliaro | Friday, August 22, 2025
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The service box was once reduced to the size of a mailbox for Sabalenka.
She just couldn’t make the delivery appropriate.
World no. 1 Sabalenka solved her service problems a few years back working with biomechanical coach GAvin Macmillan.
Wednesday, Coco Gauff, Which runs the WTA tour with double mistakes, began working with Macmillan in an effort to repair its road service. Gauff struck 43 double mistakes in three games in Montreal, including a 23 double career mistakes in a three -band victory over Danielle Collins.
US open champion reign Sabalenka met with media in Flushing Meadows today and approved Macmillan’s training and his abilities by rebuilding its service. Sabalenka said it is important to note that every player responds differently.
“I am really grateful for his help during really difficult times. For me, he really helped me with the service,” Sabalenka told Macmillan. “I really appreciate it for everything.
“You know. Everyone is different. I was really desperate for change and I was ready to change whatever, change my service and get better and end up, you know, go back to the right track with my service.”
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At her open practice sessions in the US this week, Macmillan worked on Guff’s swinging plane both in her service and in the vanguard, which she hits with extreme western control and sometimes rolls it in trial.
Australian sample Open Sabalenka twice said the repair process lasted “several weeks” with Macmillan.
“So for me, it was essentially, like, a few weeks, and I was obsessed,” Sabalenka said. “But everyone is different, and I wish them even the best and I hope everything can work well for them.”
Open US seeds said there are two main factors for regulating service:
1. Trust of work in the court of practice and transfer it to match the game and
2. Establishing repetitions so that the effective movement of muscle memory served.
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Working with Macmillan, Sabalenka said, she felt almost immediate improvement in her service.
“It was not really difficult for me because I literally tried everything, and nothing would help me fix my service,” Sabalenka said. “It was the last step before I said, okay, bye-bye, tennis. I was so desperate, so I really didn’t doubt my decision.
“At the moment we start working, I felt like, okay, there is something. I definitely have a better feeling in my service. And I just trusted the process, I trusted myself. Like the first tour I played, I already felt the difference and I felt, in order, I am getting there.
