I read through your Strategy Encyclopedia and found some very useful information.  I watched the Agassi-Federer final from 2005.

I thought it was a great match but did notice how much they use very basic strategies.

The three most useful pieces of advice were:

1) Always defend deep to the middle. I had never thought about doing that but it worked very well.  Playing to the middle is a great strategy in order to keep the angles closed and keeping others from abusing you by opening the court.

Yes, but be careful with the word “always”. Agassi and Federer used that a lot, but they also defended cross court. Nadal often defends down the line against Federer to avoid his forehand… (more…)

Rafael Nadal has won an incredible match against Roger Federer in the final of the 2008 Wimbledon. There have been many speculations whether Roger’s domination in Wimbledon is fading and whether Nadal has improved his game enough to threaten Roger on grass.

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Here are 5 reasons why Nadal made it this year:

1. Greater hunger
Federer has won Wimbledon 5 times already, has 12 Grand Slam titles and has been No.1 in the world for the last 5 years. Nadal on the other hand has won only 3 French Open titles so far, lost twice in the Wimbledon final and has been #2 in the world for the last 5 years.

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