Tsitsipas Explains Decision To Change Service Motion To Avoid Getting Injured

| by Zachary Wimer

Stefanos Tsitsipas has been tinkering with his service motion recently to avoid getting injured again, and it's been an interesting experience for him.

The service is not something that players generally change a lot. Here and there, you might see some changes, but generally, it doesn't change because it's so ingrained. It's so essential to a player, especially one like Tsitsipas, where the serve is a major weapon.

The Greek has been dealing with a lot of injuries lately, especially with the back. Some of that might be tied to his serve, so he's been tinkering with it to avoid injuring himself again, and he showed his new serve at the 2024 Australian Open.

It didn't go all too well early in his Australian Open debut for obvious reasons, but he was able to win the match. After the match, he admitted that he still works on the serve because he hasn't spent too much time on it.

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"I don't see it as something negative in my game. I might have had not the best first-serve percentages at the beginning of the match today, but it's something that I'm trying to put into my game perhaps with consistency and other things that can help me, avoiding rotating, and keeping my body a bit more compact on contact points."

It will take a while for Tsitsipas to get the new motion down, but he doesn't think it will impact him too much. The main change was that he brought his feet much closer, getting rid of the so-called "platform".

He referenced some other players after the match with a similar motion and a good serve, so he's not worried about losing a major weapon in his game.

"A few things that I'm trying to adjust. Of course I haven't spent too much time on it, so I'm on and off, depending on my personal feeling. I will continue, I will see. As you can see, there are a lot of players out there that are serving in that particular way, and they have very good serves, so it's not something that we haven't seen in tennis before. It's used by a lot of top players."

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