Oscar Wegner is one of the best known tennis coaches in the world and is the genius creator or Modern Tennis methodology. His methods have transformed the way tennis is taught and played across the world. Modern Tennis International (MTI) has been developed to bring that methodology to the UK.
Personal message from Oscar Wegner
"I have known John Littleford and Andrew Magrath since 2006. They have both participated and assisted me in my UK delivery of the highest levels of my coaching methodology. I recommend both as the forefront of an English tennis evolution that will take this wonderful country's tennis players to new heights, and I am more than happy to partner with them in this effort."
Read more about Oscar’s career to date
After playing internationally in the 1960s, Oscar embarked on a coaching career and developed a remarkable methodology that makes tennis an easy sport to learn.
Oscar's coaching concepts have had tremendous impact globally, earning him, from Brad Holbrook, host/producer of the Tennis Television Show in the USA, the designation of "the father of modern tennis".
Oscar launched his coaching career in 1968, first as an assistant to the incomparable Pancho Segura at the famous Beverly Hills Tennis Club in California, a job that included daily exchanges with former World Champion Pancho Gonzalez. It was there that he made the crucial observation that tennis was being taught one way while the pros played in an entirely different way.
In 1973 he served in Spain as one of the National coaches for the Spanish Federation’s Tennis School in Barcelona. Spain was then at a crossroads in terms of which direction its tennis instruction should take. Despite opposition from Spanish coaches he achieved astounding results internationally within three months, and Oscar's views in favour of a modern approach to coaching the game prevailed. To this day the basics he laid out remain the major feature of Spain's international success.
From 1982 through 1990 Oscar put in place an incredibly successful program in Southeast Brazil. This one program has produced many outstanding players, including Gustavo "Guga" Kuerten - winner of the 1997, 2000 and 2001 French Open and number 1 in the world in 2000.
In 1990 he returned to the United States, appearing weekly on a national tennis show. In 1994 he became a tennis commentator for ESPN Latin America and in 1997 ESPN International broadcast his tennis tips to over 150 countries, setting off a coaching revolution around the world.
From 1991 through 1995 Wegner was featured weekly on the Tennis Television Show, where he exposed the fallacies of conventional tennis teaching and presented his alternative on how to best teach and play the game. Those break-through shows are recorded in the instructional DVDs on offer.
While watching videos in the early 1990's, a Richard Williams of Los Angeles, California, decided to follow Wegner's teachings for his daughters Venus and Serena. The results were phenomenal, and even without participating in formal competition the two youngsters quickly showed their championship qualities, securing important financial endorsements that facilitated their future careers. Similarly, thousands of miles away in Thailand, Paradorn Srichaphan was coached by his parents using Oscar’s videos.
The Russian Tennis Federation has also worked with his techniques since 1990 and implemented his coaching methods in their junior programmes: there are now a dozen Russian women ranked in the top one hundred in the world.
He is presently based in Clearwater, Florida, working on a massive campaign to reform the American conventional tennis teaching system and to take tennis and its popularity in the USA to a brand new level.
The results of Wegner's system, fully documented and endorsed by top players, teaching pros, tennis directors and officials makes tennis an easy sport to learn at any age.
Wegner's approach to modern tennis teaching has truly closed the huge gap between the way tennis is conventionally taught and the way the top pros play.
