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Oscar Wegner
Oscar
Wegner began his quest to introduce his breakthrough teaching techniques
in the National Tennis School in Barcelona, Spain, in 1973. He encouraged
the coaches and players to follow the topspin style of Spanish great
Manuel Santana, two-time Grand Slam winner Rod Laver, Jack Kramer and Bill
Tilden among other former champions. Oscar's teachings included a natural
open stance on the forehand and swinging across the body, rather than
following the path of the ball.
From 1982 through 1990 he promoted the same
techniques to a large tennis academy for kids in Florianopolis,
Brazil, helping coach Guga Kuerten until he was fourteen.
From 1991 through 1995 he taught weekly on the New
Tennis Magazine Show/ Tennis Television with Brad Holbrook, and, by
Richard Williams own admission "made so much sense that he adopted
them to coach Venus and Serena".
From 1994 through 2000 Wegner worked for ESPN Latin
America and for PSN, commenting on Wimbledon, the French and Australian
Opens, ATP and WTA tournaments, and the Davis Cup.
Oscar is currently in Los Angeles where he is
developing his website academy, tennisteacher.com
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