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Percentage tennis. (guidelines to improving chances of winning in tennis)
The six key points that have to be learned in addition to the skills
Over the past 15 years, the South Burlington H.S. tennis team has made the Division I state finals 14 times, won the championship 10 times (including the last seven in a row), and compiled an overall record of 212-17, for a .926 winning percentage.
The team's extraordinary success cannot be attributed to luck or the prodigality of its personnel year after year. It lies in a combination of carefully developed physical skills and a broad concept of "winning tennis."
Right from the beginning, we try to discourage our young players from simulating their favorite pro by pounding the ball or going to a tennis camp and working on a style that isn't really suited to their physical makeup.
I'm not saying that clinics and camps cannot help young players. But I do believe that few players have the tools that enable them to win on talent alone. Even great natural athletes take years to mature, and it is during this maturation period that "percentage tennis" becomes vital to success.
What exactly do we mean by percentage tennis?
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- Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) July 4, 2009 700+ words
...position to change the direction of the ball always hit the ball back in the direction from where it has just come. n Do not aim to hit the ball close to the lines. Aim to play high-percentage tennis. n Try to move your opponent around...
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- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Johnson, Cheryl February 18, 2003 700+ words
...here nearly six weeks and dad's changed two diapers? This is a poor percentage. Tennis store employee Anne Burke and I started swatting Dave around like a tennis ball. He tried to explain, saying Tanner's grandmas have been in town and...
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- Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times SANDERS, Andrew February 11, 1996 700+ words
...hyperactive on court and has struggled to correctly read which balls he should be attacking and those he should be looking...with his forehand, but mainly he played excellent, percentage tennis. --------------------
- Henman takes heat out of fiery Gonzalez.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) September 1, 2000 700+ words
...as if he was waging some personal vendetta against tennis balls. While Gonzalez was ranked 117 places below Henman, the...intelligence that he realised so soon that this was a day for percentage tennis, not for any unnecessary risk-taking. In short, it was...
- Tennis: India's Devvarman gives himself a chance for revenge.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin August 4, 2009 700+ words
...pushing him to become stronger through more workouts, hit the ball deeper and serve smarter."It's about going through the...m just physically a lot stronger. I'm playing higher percentage tennis. That is helping me make gains."Devvarman won the first...
- Graf Brings New Dimension to Women's Tennis, Forcing Navratilova to Regroup
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ARTHUR ASHE July 3, 1988 700+ words
...two straight. Becker and Graf both disdain what is called percentage tennis. They go for their shots and pile up uncommon numbers in...to our young American junior girls is to learn to hit the ball with control and power, and think twice about staying with...
- Tennis: Wimbledon 2005: Fearless Murray on course to be winner; Frank Malley on...
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) June 25, 2005 700+ words
...much time playing keepy-up football-fashion with tennis balls - he once had a trial as a schoolboy for Rangers - as he...play all day and all night to win a single point. He plays percentage tennis, making few errors and grinding out results. He should...
- Bopanna, Varman make first round exits at Mumbai Open.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. September 26, 2007 700+ words
...successive forehand into the net. But Varman, instead of playing percentage tennis, went for broke on the next point when he tried an inside...when Bopanna's backhand finally got him down as he hit the ball into the net. Earlier Bopanna was trailing 2-3 but was...
