Tips for the over 60 crowd by the over 60 crowd!
While playing a league doubles match last week, I realized that Sir Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion could help doubles players understand their roles during a point.
I was watching the ATP Delray, Florida tournament yesterday and young American Sam Querry was playing a third set tiebreaker against an 18-year-old Japanese qualifier. The announcer (Leif Shiras?) said they would “play a 12-point tiebreakerâ€, as compared to the 10-point, third set tiebreaker the Bryan brothers had just won earlier in the same [...]
About four months ago, I switched my strings to Luxilon Big Banger Timo, 17 gauge; and have some observations that may be worth sharing.
Today was the first match of our 4.5 Senior (55 and over) team; and my partner today, Rich Whale, and I faced an interesting challenge: an opponent who returned serve by standing literally just two feet behind the service line and taking the ball on the short hop to return serve as a half-volley.
A regular visitor to this site asks a tennis-medical question that I cannot answer. Does anyone out there have an opinion that could help?
Saturday’s semi final doubles match was against the #2 seeded team of Hill Griffin of Atlanta and Ivo Barbic, , a former professional player from Yugoslavia and France, who has a Gold ball and is now the tennis director at North Fulton Tennis Center in Atlanta.
Friday’s quarter final match (if you haven’t read about Thursday’s in the previous entry, it was a crazy one) was against the challenging team of Tony Cessna (the seeded singles player from KY I was able to beat in Ft. Myers, who hits the ball hard) and Bob Royden (a tall and lanky cut/touch shot [...]
After an easy 6-1, 6-2 victory on Wednesday in our opening round of 32 match, our opponents in the round of 16 on Thursday presented a much bigger challenge. They were the #4 seeds, John Gorsky of Ithaca, NY and Bill Poist of D.C.