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https://allenfoxtennis.com/?p=63 Exploring the Strategic Dimension of Tennis Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:45:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 https://allenfoxtennis.com/?p=63#comment-520644 Mon, 30 May 2016 15:47:45 +0000 https://www.allenfoxtennis.net/?p=63#comment-520644 Juan, as great a player as Alex Olmedo was, he was not the equal of Segura by a long shot.

]]> https://allenfoxtennis.com/?p=63#comment-520464 Fri, 27 May 2016 12:43:09 +0000 https://www.allenfoxtennis.net/?p=63#comment-520464 Saw Pancho play in New York with my Dad, his doubles partner from Guayaquil.
He came to dinner at our home in Caracas. I believe Alex Olmedo was top seed in the tournament at Club Altamira. I think it was 1961.

]]> https://allenfoxtennis.com/?p=63#comment-505390 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:21:22 +0000 https://www.allenfoxtennis.net/?p=63#comment-505390 I took lessons from Pancho when I was a teenager. I washed cars and mowed lawns to get the lesson money. It was significantly more than other pros in the early seventies. I came an hour early to steal the lesson before mine with a female college player. I stayed an hour after my lesson to steal the information he gave to a great highschool male player. I teach now and most of what I pass on to more advanced players comes from Pancho. I make sure to give him the credit. He consistently screamed at the girl before me about her lack of effort and that she was too pretty when she played. He wanted her to get her knees dirty and get it back ugly rather than look pretty and poised. He didn’t scream at the guy after me, it was a continuous commentary about how he should quit and go home if that’s all the effort he was going to bring. He was always great with me. I think he appreciated that my strokes were average but I always brought the effort. The game Pancho taught me was simple. Hit it where they’re not. Don’t hit like everybody else. Keep the ball out of their strike zone. Anything less than maximum effort was unacceptable. It’s a formula that works.

]]> https://allenfoxtennis.com/?p=63#comment-491988 Sat, 23 May 2015 00:17:07 +0000 https://www.allenfoxtennis.net/?p=63#comment-491988 Agreed!

]]> https://allenfoxtennis.com/?p=63#comment-491901 Thu, 21 May 2015 19:25:49 +0000 https://www.allenfoxtennis.net/?p=63#comment-491901 Some of the best tennis players ever, played in the 1950’s and 60’s with wooden racquets. What would they have done with today’s high-tech racquets? Laver, Rosewall, Segura, Kramer, Gonzalez were, indeed great. But, I do not think that they would match today’s players in physical form; Djokovic, Federer, Nadal and most of their peers, are real monsters in comparison, big, strong and very athletic.

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