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Federer and Fear

A friend of Marc VanDam’s shared this tennis experience on “playing with fear,” which I thought interesting and insightful.

Offense Wins

A group of us have been having some great tennis on Thursday afternoons in a two-team USTA 4.5 Super Senior (60 and over) league. When we all thought about putting a team/league together, the debate was: should we try to put together ONE very good team that could go to sectionals and beyond; or [...]

When the “poach” is on…

Good movement at the net in doubles – both actual poaching and faking the poach – can have a dramatic effect on your opponent’s return of serve, and thus your holding serve. But when you know your net man is going to poach, how does that affect the server?