The following in an excerpt from The Tennis Parent’s Bible. 
Ignoring their B and C Game Plans?
Developing your child’s secondary strokes is essential for the greatest tennis success. Only practicing basic ground strokes for hours each week is not the best game plan for winning tournaments. As I say over and over- tennis is a game of keep away and not a game of catch.
At the competitive stage of tennis, spend a few moments to discuss your child’s primary and secondary styles of play in matches. Styles include hard hitting baseliners, all court, net rushers and retrievers. In lower levels of competition, continually bringing the opponent into the net is also an effective style of play.
Set up practice sets for your child against lower level players and ask your child to rehearse their secondary styles of play. Champions have mastered more than one style.
Example:
My step- daughter played her first adult U.S. Open at age 15. In the first round, Sarah’s opponent came out with her plan A (hard hitting baseliner). Sarah won the first set 6-4. At the start of the 2nd set, the opponent switched to plan B (net rusher) and Sarah went up 4-1. The opponent then switched to plan C (moonball/pusher), Sarah’s least favorite style. Sarah was amazed to see a 30 year old WTA veteran pushed her way to a $15,000 victory in the 3rd set.
SPECIAL NOTE: Moonball/pushers style never goes away, so your player had better learn to handle it!
Thank you for visiting, Frank Giampaolo
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