Esteemed tennis coach Rick Macci has provided a detailed breakdown of the technical changes that he believes could solve Coco Gauff\u2019s second serve issues.<\/p>\n
Gauff<\/a>\u2018s serve has become a regular talking point as she has\u00a0battled difficulties with double faults in various spells over the last few years.<\/p>\n The American star hit 430 double faults in her 71 matches in 2024 \u2014 the highest tally WTA Tour.<\/p>\n The 21-year-old also leads the tour for double faults this season, having committed 250 in her 41 matches to date, which is 57 more than second-placed Linda Noskova.<\/p>\n Gauff\u2019s second serve was particularly troublesome at the 2025 Canadian Open in Montreal. She hit 23 double faults in her opening round win over Danielle Collins \u2014 the fifth-highest number ever recorded in a WTA Tour match.<\/p>\n Despite this weakness, Gauff has established herself as a consistent challenger for the biggest titles in the sport. She is currently at a career-high ranking of world No 2 and secured her second Grand Slam title at the French Open in June.<\/p>\n In an exclusive interview with Tennis 365, Macci<\/a>\u00a0named Gauff when asked if there are any players he would like the chance to work with or advise.<\/p>\n \u201cTo consult or help someone, obviously right off the bat, it would be Coco Gauff,\u201d Macci said.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, there\u2019s no doubt about it, I could flip the script with her second serve and forehand. No doubt about it, but it\u2019d have to be done in the off-season.\u201d<\/p>\n Macci has repeatedly declared that Gauff\u2019s second serve issues could be fixed in an hour,\u00a0and he went in depth when asked to outline the changes that he would like to see.<\/p>\n \u201cFirst off, her little brother is at our academy, and I\u2019m very good friends with the Dad,\u201d the American began.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the end of the day, they were gonna take off some time last year, year before, when there was a lot of time to do reconstructive surgery [on the serve], but you know, when you start winning a little bit, sometimes that speed bump or that technical flaw, can be kind of camouflaged.<\/p>\n The 5 women to hit the most double faults in a WTA match: Coco Gauff with 23<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n 5 youngest women to beat No 1 seed at a WTA 1000 event: Victoria Mboko joins Coco Gauff, Mirra Andreeva<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cBut here we are, what, three years later\u2026 the second serve, still a little bit of an issue. It bubbles up under pressure. Everybody and their brother has chimed in. And not that the advice they\u2019re giving is incorrect, but everybody\u2019s probably looking at a symptom. And they\u2019re not really understanding the origin or the culprit.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat I mean by that \u2013 this has to be science-based and it has to be done from a biomechanical point of view. And I\u2019ve looked at her serve from every different direction and right now, because she\u2019s been doing this since a little kid, the muscle memory is baked in extra crispy. She has very, very long arms, she has a very loose arm.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, what I would do, and even my partner Dr. Brian Gordon \u2014 who has his PhD in Biomechanics, he did his thesis on this stuff \u2014 I would have her go to a platform stance, right now she does a pinpoint. And I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s wrong. I mean, [there are] world class servers [who use] pinpoint.<\/p>\n \u201cBut the corrective technique has to jolt the muscle memory, and I gotta re-programme the reflexes from the beginning. So, in a platform stance, it\u2019d be like fresh out of the oven. And then from there, the whole timing would be very different, her vertical component would be easier to correct \u2013 that means her upward movement.<\/p>\n \u201cSo all these things that you see \u2013 opening up too soon, her head coming down, people talking about the toss and all this \u2013 that\u2019s not the issue. They\u2019re looking at it wrong.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I have no doubt, in one hour, this could be corrected. But as long as she keeps doing pinpoint, it\u2019s all just gonna be like, just a modification of something that she\u2019s just wired.\u201d<\/p>\n Macci has coached a host of tennis stars during their formative years, including\u00a0five players who went on to become world No 1: Serena Williams, Venus Williams,\u00a0Maria Sharapova,\u00a0Jennifer Capriati and\u00a0Andy Roddick.<\/p>\n He also worked with Mary Pierce,\u00a0Anastasia Myskina and Sofia Kenin, who won Grand Slam titles, and he was\u00a0inducted into the USPTA Hall of Fame in 2017.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0WTA Cincy draw: Potential Sabalenka-Raducanu showdown, Swiatek also in stacked top half, Gauff leads bottom half<\/a> The post Coco Gauff told exactly how her serving issues could be solved \u2018in an hour\u2019 by legendary coach<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Esteemed tennis coach Rick Macci has provided a detailed breakdown of the technical changes that he believes could solve Coco Gauff\u2019s second serve issues. 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