Playing a Tennis Player

Against a tennis player take the offense at the first moment. Unfortunately for defending title holders and aspiring champions, every man you play is not Old Jo Gettem or Young Pete Swattem, those examples of typical opponents we have previously described. (Click Here) Some of them are Tennis Players. These are men who either force you to learn something about combined attack and defense, or else place you quietly in the discards of the Also Rans. Let me outline my method of playing a Tennis Player, in contrast to meeting Old Jo or Young Pete. My first rule is "Take the offensive at the earliest possible moment." If you are serving you should attack with an aggressive service. If you are receiving, you should strive to make your first return sufficiently aggressive to force your opponent into defense. There is only one thing worse than handing over the attack to your opponent and that is an unforced error. Therefore I qualify my statement concerning returning service to make it read, sufficiently aggressive to force your opponent into defense, provided first you are certain to put the ball into play. Since most points in tennis are lost by errors and not...