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Wall Serve Targets

Wall2.5–3.510 minServe & return

Why this drill

Serve practice with no ball-chasing and no court time. Chalk targets turn wall serving from vague rehearsal into placement training — and at every rec level, a deep, placed serve earns more cheap points than a hard one.

Setup

Wall with the 34-inch line. Chalk two targets a couple of feet above the line, each about two feet square, six feet apart — one for the wide serve, one for the T. Stand at least twenty-two feet back, baseline distance, with a bucket of balls.

The drill

Serve ten balls at one target, ten at the other, full legal motion every time — below the waist, arm swinging upward. Score each set out of ten, counting balls that strike inside the box. Between sets, hit five deliberately slower serves focusing only on a consistent contact point. Two full rounds; log all four target scores and watch the trend across weeks, not days.

One thought to take on court

Same toss-drop, same contact, every time — placement comes from a repeatable swing, not from steering.