Jessica Pegula outlines which shot she wants to use more while playing on grass

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Jessica Pegula is keen to develop her game as she goes in search of her first Grand Slam title.

The player was keen to improve her game on grass and played three events on the surface before commencing her Wimbledon campaign.

It is a decision that has paid off as she won the Berlin Championships and made an emphatic start at the All-England Club.

Certain skills are needed to succeed on the slick and low bouncing grass courts and Pegula wants to tailor her game to give herself the best chance of winning Wimbledon.

What shot does Jessica Pegula want to utilise more?

Pegula is one of the cleanest and purest ball strikers on the WTA Tour and her heavy groundstrokes fly off the hallowed turf at Wimbledon.

But the 30-year-old stressed the need to add more variety to her power and one way to do that is by utilising the slice backhand.

“I do hit very clean and sometimes if I’m not quite moving in enough or mixing it up enough, the girls also hit very clean and they get on to my ball and people play better against me and I’m like ‘what’s happening’?, Pegula told Martina Navratilova on Tennis Channel.

“So that is one of the things that we’ve been trying to work with both of my coaches is when you feel like that’s happening how can we kind of mix things up a little bit more.

“I think I have the ability to have a lot of variety. I slice but doing it more as a strategy not just as kind of like a fallback. I’m trying to work it into where I feel confident using it at all times.”

Jessica Pegula’s in the best grass court form of her life

Pegula chose to skip the French Open to preserve her fitness ahead of playing a full grass court season for the first time in her career.

After two months with injury, she returned at the Libema Open where she reached the round of 16, before claiming the Berlin Championship trophy. She fought off match points before beating Anna Kalinskaya to win the title.

Many expected her to skip Eastbourne before playing Wimbledon, but the American travelled to the south coast of England and contested a thrilling match against Emma Raducanu which she lost in three sets.

With plenty of grass court matches under her belt, Pegula will be confident she can do some serious damage at Wimbledon.