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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 naturalopen 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.