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\"tennis<\/p>\n

Patology # 77<\/p>\n

The Tennis Wisdom of Legendary Spanish Coach Pato Alvarez<\/p>\n

“In my opinion, 80% of first serves should be hit away from the court because this way the server can control the point more easily and make their opponent run.”<\/p>\n

William Pato Alvarez is famous for being one of the only coaches in the world to simultaneously<\/em> coach 4 players in the top 40 ATP rankings.\u00a0 He is a legend in Spain and developed many professional players such as Emilio Sanchez and Sergio Casal, who went on to start the Sanchez-Casal Academy<\/a> in Barcelona.<\/p>\n

Learn more wisdom from Pato<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patology # 77 The Tennis Wisdom of Legendary Spanish Coach Pato Alvarez “In my opinion, 80% of first serves should be hit away from the court because this way the server can control the point more easily and make their opponent run.” William Pato Alvarez is famous for being one of the only coaches in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,159,8,158,103],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spanish-methods-and-philosophy","tag-pato-alvarez","tag-serving","tag-spanish","tag-strategy","tag-tennis"],"yoast_head":"\nTennis serving strategy by William Pato Alvarez | THE PRODIGY MAKER<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tennis serving strategy by legendary Spanish coach William Pato Alvarez. 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