Talk:Tennis strategy

message: Why I deleted the following sentence from the end: "This strategy is also useful on the receiving end of a good server, since the usual up-and-back strategy may expose the net player to winners following the forcing serve."
It is confusing I think. What is "the receiving end of a good server"? I guess this is meant to refer to the receiving team, but that isn't what it says. It isn't clear whether this is talking about the serving team or the receiving team. Sometimes the serving team plays both-back because the serve is so wimpy the server's partner gets drilled. But that is bad strategy. If you mean that the the receiving team might play both-back because the serve is very strong, resulting in poaches of the service return, that I would agree with.
Ken2849 15:52, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Both-Back Strategy 

message: Haven't been here in a while and discovered all pictures are changed to players 20 years ago. No direspect, but I think references of more recent players (Federer, Nadal, soon-to-retired Agassi) would serve better for Wikipedia community as a whole. Don Budge, Ken Rosewall, Bill Tilden, they're all great, but it doesn't relate to anyone but us tennis afficiandos (someone even asked me who this "John McEnroe" is). Roddick, Henin-Hardenne can draw more excitement (and contributions) from the regular Wikipedia user.  Aree 12:56, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, fine.  But try finding some copyright-free modern pix to put there.  People *have* posted modern pix in some of the tennis articles and they *always* get deleted for one reason or another due to copyright issues.  I'm the guy who found and posted all of the old ones and they seem to fall under "historic usage" rights.  So apparently they're okay.  Or they have been so far.... Hayford Peirce 18:39, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures of more recent players? 

message: I feel like we should differentiate between a "strategy" of tennis (meaning what to DO in certain situations) versus "Playing styles".  Currently, this article is a bit of a mix?  One could present that there are general strategies that do not depend upon a "Playing Style".  Frankly, I throw this out to see if anyone agrees...It IS possible that it is only in my mind...
Mjquin_id (talk) 22:49, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strategy vs "Playing Style" 

message: I am thinking about removing the lists of players for each type of "style".  Although some are fairly obvious, if you follow tennis, none of them are cited.  Can people either cite references where the player is said to play a certain way...or we remove the lists?  Can I say 30 days or consensus? -- Mjquin_id (talk) 01:53, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lists of players 

message: I have rewritten a statement to the effect that the server and the receiver must both be at the baseline for the serve.  Certainly the server must be; but "[t]he receiver can take up any position he thinks most suitable on his side of the net" (Know the Game - Lawn Tennis, , p.9). Paul Magnussen (talk) 19:37, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Up-and-Back Strategy 

message: The given explanation for the decline of the serve-and-volley strategy in recent years is not convincing and is not defended.  Improvements in technology are surely the primary reason for the decline, not that "this strategy requires more experience to master and to defeat other playing styles."  And either way, it is poor style to have the technology-improvements reference in parentheses.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.95.160.44 (talk) 19:23, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Decline of Serve-and-Volley 

message: Following on from this - 
: "I am thinking about removing the lists of players for each type of "style".  Although some are fairly obvious, if you follow tennis, none of them are cited.  Can people either cite references where the player is said to play a certain way...or we remove the lists?  Can I say 30 days or consensus?" -- Mjquin_id (talk) 01:53, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of lists of players 

message: This page needs to be merged here, no other strategies are made into other pages, which the article is rather small and cannot be made to stand alone!BLUEDOGTN 18:28, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Serve and volley]] 

message: As in the Serve & Volley comment above, I can't see any justification for Pusher (tennis) having it's own separate entry. That article contains nothing that couldn't be part of this one
31.124.45.250 (talk) 15:37, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pusher (tennis)