Strategy

Andre Agassi has always been a great front-runner, a less-than great come-from-behind player. That's been true of several of the tennis giants, and the main reason they get away with it is that they just don't have to come from...

February 2024

Strategy

Every coach loves to talk about his big successes. I want to tell you what it's like in the trenches. A player-coach relationship is a little bit like a marriage, and as every husband knows, every marriage has its ups...

January 2024

Strategy

I'm an early starter. I believe in the beginning of the day. Your mind is clearer then. Things don't get a chance to fester if you start out early. What's more, I wanted to establish discipline with Andre who claimed...

December 2023

Strategy

Thank God for Andre Agassi. He knew I wanted to be a coach before I did. I didn't really know what I wanted to do. I certainly never planned to become a coach to two of the greatest players of...

November 2023

Strategy

What's the Set Up point? Learn the secret directly from Brad. For some pros (the ones not making any money) and most recreational players there are two kinds of points: ad points and all the rest. Wrong. I treat the...

July 2013

Strategy

What role did the Set up Game play in Andre Agassi's 1992 Wimbledon win? In my first article for Tennisplayer, we looked at what I call the "Set-up Point." Basically a Set-up Point is any point that can move you...

August 2013