Defensive Backcourt Tactics

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Permalink Reply by Oscar Wegner on April 22, 2009 at 4:00pm

Martin, hit high to the backhand of your opponent, drawing them back, then, on his first short ball, hit crosscourt short to the intersection of the service line and the sideline, driving them off the court. It will either be a winner or he will leave the other side open for you to attack there. Short crosscourts ar usually neglected by players, but there are the most effective on opening up the court on the other side.

Permalink Reply by Martín Garnica on April 22, 2009 at 8:09pm

Thank you!! I will try this tactic in practice matches. But, I if it fails, There is another plan? This has to be the way to play the entire match?

Permalink Reply by Lucile Bosche´ on April 22, 2009 at 11:24pm

Try studying the Wardaw Directionals:

http://hoskinsjohn.bizland.com/direc/

Permalink Reply by Martín Garnica on April 23, 2009 at 1:49pm

Thank you Lucile for the reply!

I will try the 2 tactics, and i will comment you how it works!

Permalink Reply by Dean Wright on April 23, 2009 at 3:36pm

Lucy, you know the Wardlaw Directinals. Best strategy ever invented. I had allready suggested that to Martin on his web page.

Lucile Bosche´ said:

Try studying the Wardaw Directionals:

http://hoskinsjohn.bizland.com/direc/

Permalink Reply by Martín Garnica on April 23, 2009 at 7:06pm

My Webpage? I don`t know that I have one!

I remeber another tactic sent by Oscar in the newsletter, applied by Dementieva two or three years ago against Hingis. She hitted short, low slices to the Hingis backhand, making she approach to the net, and played lobs to pass her.

Permalink Reply by John Carpenter on April 27, 2009 at 6:28am

If anyone wants a Word transcribed copy of the Wardlaw Directionals transcribed word for word from Paul Wardlaw himself, who I was told by a college coach has studied Oscar's MTM, I can email it to you. Just let me know. I use it as a tool to train our MTM coaches as Oscar is certifying and recognizing coaches who want to be trained in Modern Tennis Methodology.

Permalink Reply by Dean Wright on April 27, 2009 at 10:14pm

I have a copy, but were does Paul Wardlaw coach at now, do you know?

John Carpenter said:

If anyone wants a Word transcribed copy of the Wardlaw Directionals transcribed word for word from Paul Wardlaw himself, who I was told by a college coach has studied Oscar's MTM, I can email it to you. Just let me know. I use it as a tool to train our MTM coaches as Oscar is certifying and recognizing coaches who want to be trained in Modern Tennis Methodology.

Permalink Reply by John Zhao on April 28, 2009 at 2:24pm

Thanks a lot, Lucile. John, can you send the Word descriptions to jzhao83@gmail.com? Question for you guys, when you play someone who is better and mostly more consistent than you, are you supposed to play a lot more aggressively since a conservative game plan will guanrantee a loss? In that case, would you also interpret Wardlaw's guidelines more agressively?

John Carpenter said:

If anyone wants a Word transcribed copy of the Wardlaw Directionals transcribed word for word from Paul Wardlaw himself, who I was told by a college coach has studied Oscar's MTM, I can email it to you. Just let me know. I use it as a tool to train our MTM coaches as Oscar is certifying and recognizing coaches who want to be trained in Modern Tennis Methodology.

Permalink Reply by Martín Garnica on April 28, 2009 at 8:28pm

John, my email is garnicamartin@hotmail.com
I am waiting for your mail!

Now, I'm improving my level following Oscar, and Wardlaw tactics. I want to complete my knowledge about tactics, to excel.