This is a clip of Venus Williams playing a point from her singles match at a recent Washington Kastles World Team Tennis match. World Team Tennis is an innovative format where you have both the men and women competing during the same match. Venus, for example, played women’s doubles, mixed doubles, and women’s singles. It’s also a lot of fun because the crowd is encourage to cheer and, more generally, make a lot of noise. In this particular point, Venus rips a couple monster forehands before coming to net to finish off the point. From an instructional standpoint, take note of how Venus doesn’t overhit her approach shot . Instead, Venus forces her opponent to hit a great passing shot, which she doesn’t do.
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