Tennis Instructional DVDs

Venus and Serena Williams, Gustavo "Guga" Kuerten, Vincent Spadea, Paradorn Srichaphan, Mary Pierce, Marat Safin, the pros and coaches on the Spanish Armada, the new crop of South American players and coaches, the Argentinian Guillermo Coria, Gaston Gaudio, David Nalbandian, Guillermo Canas, Juan Ignacio Chela, Jose Acasuso, Mariano Puerta, are part of a long list of players who have benefited from Oscar's teaching legacy. Paul Pisani, who works with Robbie Ginepri, has Oscar's book and videos. Even the Russian Tennis Federation has been using Oscar's book for their tennis programs since the early 1990s. This natural, easy to learn method is also very effective for people who have never played before.

ADVANCED TENNIS TECHNIQUES The tennis tips on this CD are some of the most astounding tennis lessons ever shown on television, contributing to an increased interest in tennis around the world. These 40 tips, each 30 seconds long, were broadcast daily for over two years on ESPN International, reaching hundreds of millions of viewers in 170 countries, with more than two billion worldwide impressions**. Some of the major sports during which they were aired included the Super Bowl, NBA Finals, NHL Finals, Nascar Racing, US Open Golf, World Soccer, the X Games, French Open Tennis, Australian Open, ATP Championships, etc. (**one impression is each time one person views it) Price:   $29.95 (ITEM TENNISADV) 10 AMAZING SECRETS  (50 MINUTES) This is the most popular video in the Wegner DVD collection. In this amazing DVD the true myths of conventional tennis teaching are exposed in dramatic and convincing fashion. Oscar Wegner shows the modern way to stroke the ball and to take your tennis to new heights! Daring and informative approach to confront "conventional" tennis instruction head on!  Wegner discusses the ten concepts he finds too often to be the most damaging in tennis players at any level. He discusses each "conventional" stroke building concept in detail, and describes why that approach is not the best way; he then introduces a better way to learn! A great video for any coach or athlete who is in need of a fresh approach of how to play the game!   10 Amazing Secrets Price:   $24.95 (ITEM TENNISSECRETS)

"Oscar is a great coach. In a few days he helped me regain my strokes and my feel for the ball." 
Bjorn Borg, 5 time Wimbledon Champion, 6 time French Open Champion.

"Wegner strips instruction of all those accepted phrases and directions that only clutter your mind and confuse.....I think you'll find it worthwhile to dump the past and join Oscar in your tennis future. In listening to him I've unlearned a few things myself that I long considered gospel....." 
Bud Collins, Boston Globe, NBC

"Oscar has broken the mold in understanding the modern tennis stroke. In working with him and watching super slo-motion sequences of the top pros, I have seen the genius of Oscar's analysis of their dynamics and technique. He has translated that into effective teaching methodology that is easy and fun to learn from." 
Andy Rosenberg, Director for NBC Sports Wimbledon and French Open

"Your teaching method is logical, easily understood, and works." 
Jana Hunsacker, Director of Tennis, U.S.T.A. National Tennis Center, Flushing Meadows, N.Y., 
the site of the U.S. Open Championships.

"I recommend this method to other professionals. With this method we had positive results all over the world." 
Carlos Alves. Carlos took Oscar to Brazil, learned his methods, and together they developed 
Guga Kuerten until he was 14, and many other top juniors and young pros, including his daughter 
Nanda Alves, #1 in Brazil. 

Oscar Wegner is one of the most known tennis coaches in the world. After playing internationally in the 1960s, Oscar undertook a coaching career and developed a remarkable methodology that makes tennis an easy sport to learn. Tennis, Oscar says, is far simpler than it looks.

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 Wegner's breakthrough techniques, which he initially taught in the National Tennis School in Spain, then in Florianopolis, Brazil, where Oscar coached a group of young players that included "Guga" Kuerten until he was 14, later on TV in the USA, and finally broadcast worldwide through ESPN International, have produced top players in the USA and in countries as far as Russia, Thailand, South America, Spain, and the Far East. Among those are the famous Williams sisters, whose father Richard learned from Oscar's televised lessons the techniques that put them on short notice on top of the tennis world, and Paradorn Srichaphan, whose father coached him aided by Oscar's videos.

After a wonderfully productive decade on television, first with the Tennis Television Show on the USA's Prime Network (now Fox Sports), and then on ESPN International and the Pan American Sports Network as a tennis commentator for their Latin Americam shows, including Wimbledon, the French Open and the Australian Open, Oscar switched career gears and decided to tackle changing the coaching of the game at its grass roots level. 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.

A native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wegner traded his engineering studies for a far more exciting career in tennis. >From 1963 to 1967 he played the international Tennis Circuit in the United States, Europe, South America, Africa and the Caribbean. While playing and practicing with many of the top players of the 50's and 60's and some who would become the top players in the 70's, i.e. Roy Emerson, John Newcombe, Tony Roche and Manuel Santana, he compared notes with them and began his search into the secrets of their success.

A dedicated world traveler, he has served as teaching pro and tennis director for confederations, cities, clubs, academies, schools and camps in many countries.

Wegner 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.

Wegner set out to resolve this discrepancy. His research led him to isolate the actual basis of tennis that apply to any player at any level, whether a pro, an intermediate player, or a beginner. He developed, as well, a teaching methodology to communicate those basics to players and coaches alike. This approach, from its inception, has produced remarkable results, not only in Wegner's hands, but by other coaches as well.

In 1973 he served as the Junior Davis Cup Captain for Spain and as one of the National coaches for the Spanish Federation’s Tennis School in Barcelona. That country was then at a crossroads in terms of which direction its tennis instruction should take. Wegner's views in favor 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 on the island of Florianopolis, in Southeast Brazil. This one program has produced many outstanding players, including Gustavo "Guga" Kuerten, winner of the 1997, 2000 and 2001 French Open, number 1 in the world in 2000, Marcio Carlsson, winner, with Guga, of the 1993 World Junior Davis Cup, Diego Cubas, number 1 in the 16 years old category in South America, Bruno Rosa, number 2 in the same category, Maria Fernanda Alves, number 1 Brazilian Junior and touring pro, and many others.

In 1992 Wegner published the revolutionary book "You Can Play Tennis in Two Hours".

From 1991 through 1995 Wegner was featured weekly on the Tennis Television Show, where he exposed the fallacies of conventional tennis teaching and the true data on how to best teach and play the game. Those break-through shows are recorded in five (5) hour long instructional videos available through this web site.

While watching those shows in the early 1990's, a Richard Williams of Los Angeles, California, decided to apply Wegner's teachings on 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.

The results of Wegner's system, fully documented and endorsed by top players, teaching pros, tennis directors and officials, some of which are recorded in this website, 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.

Wegner's 40 instructional vignettes, both in English and in Spanish, were broadcast by ESPN International from June 1997 through September 1999 several times daily in more than 150 countries around the world, including airings during the Super Bowl, NBA Finals, Stanley Cup Finals, US Open Golf, etc, generating over two billion impressions on television worldwide. Wegner's web-site has already had over half a million visits.

This international exposure, coupled with Wegner's seminars for the United States Tennis Association during five US Open Tennis Championships and two Intercollegiate Tennis Association coaches conventions, and the national distribution of Wegner's book in the early 90's in the United States, have revolutionized the entire field of tennis instruction.