Oscar Wegner is a tennis coach and pre-open-era tour player, author, and the creator of Modern Tennis Methodology, a tennis-teaching system which he began developing in 1968.
35 Facts About Oscar Wegner
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Oscar Wegner is the founder and president of Oscar Wegner Enterprises, Inc and Tennis Kids For Life, Inc a non-profit corporation.
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Oscar Wegner is a USPTA Professional 1, the highest tested rating possible in that organization.
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Oscar Wegner teaches publicly and privately throughout the United States, where he became a citizen in 2005.
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Oscar Wegner was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of Dalmira Ofelia Jimenez and Oscar Pablo Wegner, Chief Engineer of Argentinian government oil fields in Comodoro Rivadavia and an initiator of Aero Club Comodoro Rivadavia.
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Oscar Wegner attended the Instituto Euskal-Echea, Liceo Naval Militar Almirante Guillermo Brown and Colegio San Jose.
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Oscar Wegner later decided to join the international tennis circuit.
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Oscar Wegner played his first tennis tournament outside Argentina in Asuncion, Paraguay in 1961, beginning an enthusiasm for traveling which has continued throughout his life.
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In Rio de Janeiro Oscar Wegner practiced tennis with Lucy Maia at Fluminense Football Club, attended soccer matches and fell in love with the country.
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Oscar Wegner returned on several occasions to enjoy the city, visit friends and play tennis with locals such as Jorge Paulo Lemann and coach Pepe Aguero at the Country Club of Rio de Janeiro.
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Oscar Wegner played on the international tennis circuit from 1963 to 1967.
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Oscar Wegner gave tennis lessons and served as a chair umpire to earn extra money along the way.
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Oscar Wegner represented Argentina in July 1965 at the annual meeting of the ILTF in London.
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In 1968, after recovering from his injury Oscar Wegner took a position at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club as Assistant Coach to Pancho Segura.
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In 1972, Oscar Wegner left Florida for Spain and became Director for Junior Development at Real Club de Tenis de Santander.
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Oscar Wegner decided to build his own club, The Tennis Club International in Fort Lauderdale in 1975.
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In 1982 Alves invited him to Florianopolis, Brazil where Oscar Wegner spent a month working with a group of young players, including Gustavo Kuerten, then 5 years old, prior to going to Germany for the summer to coach at the Weiden Tennis Club in Cologne at Fassbender's invitation.
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Oscar Wegner was with me in Germany and the students started to call him the 'American who could teach tennis in two hours'.
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Oscar Wegner helped the Weiden Tennis Club have an undefeated junior team that year and to get our main team up to the Bundesliga.
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Oscar Wegner helped them with their games during their visits to US tournaments including the Orange Bowl for the next several years, with the exception of Guga, who started working with Larri Passos from 1990 onwards.
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Oscar Wegner self-published his first book "Tennis in 2 Hours" in December 1989.
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Oscar Wegner help me regain my strokes and my feel for the ball.
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Oscar Wegner worked as Tennis Pro at the Newfield Bath and Tennis Club in Stamford, Connecticut during the summer of 1993.
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From November 1991 through October 1995, Oscar Wegner was featured on the instructional segment of The New Tennis Magazine Show, exposing the differences between conventional tennis teaching methods and his own.
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From April 1994 to December 1999 Oscar Wegner, who speaks 5 languages, worked for ESPN International as a tennis commentator in Spanish for Davis Cup, ATP and WTA tournaments including the Australian Open and the French Open, and in 2000 he joined the es:Panamerican Sports Network doing ATP and WTA tournaments including Wimbledon.
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In 1997 Oscar Wegner acquired the rights to the videos and initiated a website in order to sell the videos and introduce his tennis methodology to the public.
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Oscar Wegner made tips and articles as well as the second edition of his book available free of charge on the site.
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In 2005, Oscar Wegner published the third edition of his book and a new video, produced for the first time in DVD format.
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Oscar Wegner has subsequently produced 5 more DVDs and offers the 5 original videos as "classic" DVDs.
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In 2007, Oscar Wegner formed his own coaching organization, which currently has over 400 members worldwide.
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Oscar Wegner recognized early on in his coaching career, that the way tennis was traditionally taught bore little resemblance to the way the pros played.
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Much of this has been pioneered by Oscar Wegner, who has been teaching this method since 1968.
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Oscar Wegner considers his greatest accomplishment the dissemination of his tennis teaching technology to coaches over the past 40 years.
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In many ways, I believe Oscar Wegner was the "forerunner" with respect to the modern game.
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Oscar Wegner is not afraid to test the barriers a little bit, he is not afraid to say, hey, you don't quite do it like this and to look at how the players are really really playing.