Beat Better Players

About this episode

Francie Barragan shares tactics for playing against higher level tennis players.

What do you do if your opponents are only hitting to the lower rated player? What are some tactics for playing against higher level players? Francie Barragan is here to give advice for playing combo or across different levels! We are replaying a few of our most popular episodes and this was one of them! Francie played college tennis for NC State and was the Assistant Coach for NC State after graduating. She was the Head Coach at Methodist University, the Director of Professional Tennis Mana...

People in this episode

Hosts: Carolyn Roach, Erin Conigliaro

Guest: Francie Barragan

Topics covered

• tennis
• tactics
• player levels
• coaching
• sports advice

Keywords

• tennis
• higher level players
• tactics
• coaching
• sports

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NC State, Methodist University

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