Joel Drucker
Amateur golfers are known to inflate their handicaps to gain a competitive advantage. Now it seems tennis players are DEflating their NTRP rankings to gain a competitive advantage in league play. Continue reading
Lt. Wachtel, Korea 1968
All of us senior hackers feel it sometime – even the top touring pros feel it – PRESSURE can impact your performance; so what can you do about it? Continue reading
With Doug Brunner after brutally hot 2016 match
If a tournament match is stopped for rain or darkness, what priority should that match completion be given the next day? That question comes from Doug Brunner, who played in a rain-plagued Florida tournament. Continue reading
Do you wear/use a fitness tracker? I used one for almost a year but found, for me, it wasn’t worth the effort. Continue reading
Rod Laver (Ken Munson photo)
If you want a great tennis workout + an excellent way to improve all of your strokes, try doing “Two-on-one drills.” But to get the most benefit, you have to do them right. Continue reading
SuperSenior Gordon Hammes
There are several tournaments coming up in the months ahead – from a small local New Hampshire event … to a new ITF tournament in Naples … to the World’s in Orlando. Here are some highlights… Continue reading
Mike Lewis
Where do you look when your partner is serving? When your partner is returning serve? When your partner is hitting a baseline shot and you are at the net? Look the wrong way and you could lose critical time. Continue reading
John McEnroe created controversy (what else is new?) when he said that Serena Williams would be no more than #700, if she competed on the men’s tour. Is he right? Continue reading
John Newcombe
You hit a cross-court forehand that would have been a probable winner, but it clips the top of the tape and dribbles over. You raise your hand and say , “Sorry.” Are you really? Continue reading
Fred Stolle
Tennis writer Joel Drucker asks the question on FaceBook, “You’re absolutely killing an opponent in a league or tournament match 6-0, 5-0. Would you then concede a game?” Continue reading
With Fernand Martin
This was the weekend for fathers to play in the New England vs. Quebec 50th annual Friendship Cup, played at Chuck Kinyon’s Quechee Club in Vermont. Continue reading
There is a regional tournament between Canada and New England this weekend, a National Hardcourt in California, and a warning about taking painkillers. Continue reading
Brian Gottfried
What is your most challenging shot? For many right-handers, it is the “off backhand” return of serve in the deuce court (and for lefties, flip over to the ad court). So, what can you do about it? Continue reading
You go on the doubles court and flip a racquet to make the serving/receiving choice BEFORE you start your warm-up; then you and your partner go to the proper side and warm-up against your opponents. But SHOULD you? Continue reading
Matt Davie and me
Matt and I were able to finally play the Naples City Tournament 70s doubles final this morning at Cambier Park, under sunny and warm skies (leaving Florida this weekend for the summer). Continue reading