Tips for the over 60 crowd by the over 60 crowd!
During a doubles match this week, we got into a conversation on WHEN and WHAT you are allowed to say during a tennis point. We talked; but didn’t agree…
This is not the “soft serve” you get in the frozen yogurt shop, but INTENTIONALLY serving softer to win the point. When should you do this?
I may have just had a game-changing tennis epiphany.
Although I am an extremely optimistic person and always “see the glass half full,” I just reread a chapter in my favorite little tennis book, The Best Tennis of Your Life. It says “don’t fall into the negative filtering trap.” By that the [...]
In thinking (too much) about this match against a guy who plays head games, I resolved “to make it about tennis and not about line calls.” My brother’s advice was to look at his potential antics as “entertainment” and not get upset by them.
Well, I thought I was “all tournamented out”; but talking with Hank Irvine, one of the top players, after the Naples Bath Cat II… he convinced me to enter another one in Sarasota this week. He said, “George, you are right on the edge of it! You need to enter one of these [...]
During my singles match against Big David Nash at Naples Bath, I called a baseline shot OUT and then looked at the mark and reversed my call to IN. Without really thinking much about it, I then gave the point to my opponent (who really didn’t need it, the way he was beating me). [...]