OK, you’re out there in a tournament or league match, and for whatever reason, your normal plan A just ain’t working.

Maybe it’s your opponent who is playing great, the conditions of the court or weather don’t favor your plan A, or maybe, just maybe, you’re making unforced errors and can’t execute your normal plan A.

What do you do? Go straight to another style of play, modify your normal plan A, etc.?

Do you even believe enough in what might be a plan B for you to go to it during the middle of a match?

I got world class tennis writer Joel Drucker on the phone this morning to discuss this topic.

Maybe my questions were a bit self serving as I really needed a plan B during my quarterfinal match at the World 60s recently in Perth Australia and I just flat out didn’t compose myself enough to be able to trust that a plan B or even a modified plan A would help.

So, the bottom line is this. You gotta be able to sit down and identify those specific match situations where things aren’t going your way and evaluate them in a way that you can bring out s slightly, if not totally different, strategy.

The key is to commit lots of time to practice whatever plan B or modified plan A you feel will work best for you.

If there’s a specific stroke or strategy that you can be honest with yourself about and identify as something that would enhance your ability to develop a true plan B or modified plan A, then get yourself over to my list of lessons and let’s get started today with tinkering here and there to plug up any holes in your game.

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Your feedback would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance…

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First of all, wow, and I do mean a big time wow, many thanks to all of you who were so kind to write to me during my time over in Perth recently for the ITF World team and individuals tournaments.

Von Cramm Cup (60s) Team Silver Medal

Mai and I got home here in northern California late last Wed night, and I have just found the time to at least approve of all of the great comments and replies.

Now I’ll look for some more time to respond to them individually.  (Uh, well, you know, that may take awhile, so don’t hold your breath…).

But, I’m just amazed at the feedback, how much you enjoyed those updates, and especially something that I hadn’t thought about before, that those of you who have never seen me play, well, it seems there is some interest to do some video clips of actual points in matches in addition to the regular instructional video tips.

So, we can do that.  For now, I can set up a camera over at the Berkeley Tennis Club and video some points and then give you some feedback as to what I’m thinking and how you might use some of that feedback for your own game.

And hopefully in the future, I can get organized enough to get some video of a tournament match (probably my next tournament is going to be at the Babolat World event in Palm Springs, CA in January 2010).

But please. don’t be shy, let me know specifically what situations you’d like to see where you may need some help with your own game.  Just reply by filling out the form below this post.

OK, I’m off to an early dinner with my kids and my step mom Corinne over at Spenger’s in Berkeley (that’s right, and you know who you are, we’ve been doing some damage over there for what, something like almost 60 years?).   Mai’s got here holiday pie baking business going full tilt today, so the kitchen is off limits to the rest of us, and she won’t be able to join us.  Dang…

My two oldest kids are home from college for the Thanksgiving break, Georgie is a senior at Georgie Southern U in Statesboro, GA and Molly is a sophomore at Ft. Lewis College in Durango, CO.  Our baby, Cassie, is kicking some butt as a freshman here at Campolindo High School in Moraga.  So, yours truly is feeling pretty darn good about stuff right now with all of them home for a week or so…

Again, thanks so much for your continued support of me and Webtennis.net.  Glad you enjoyed the updates from Perth.  Sta in touch and let me know what challenges you want solved with your tennis game…

Brent

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