Tips for the over 60 crowd by the over 60 crowd!
This is an annual event to pits Florida’s east coast players against west coast players: there are 10 age brackets from 35-80 years old and bring out some of the best players around (Hank Irvine, Joe Bachman, Rudi Hernando, King Van Nostrand, etc).
Last year they had a larger team per age bracket; but this year [...]
The new Jim Courier senior tennis tour made its first stop in Naples this past weekend, with former stars from the age of 35 to just shy of 50.
On the third day of the round-robin tournament, John McEnroe was playing Aaron Krickstein for a spot in the finals the next day. At a critical [...]
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Unfortunately, no one asked me what John McEnroe said to me in front of 4,000 people on March 12 while I was umpiring a tennis match at the Champions Tour Naples.
He apparently didn’t like my call against him on the baseline. After arguing, and insulting the chair, which resulted in a [...]
Here are a variety of tips from The Legends at the John Newcombe Tennis Camp:
Tennis Tips from the Pros
Action
Pro
Tip
Warm up
Larry Starr
(pro trainer)
Do not do static stretching before first playing; but rather, do a series of muscle warm-ups – and stretch AFTER you play.
Volley
Roy Emerson
The first thing you do is turn your lead shoulder, [...]