Tips for the over 60 crowd by the over 60 crowd!
What happens if you swing and MISS your serve? That is one of several interesting Rule interpretations that have come up during matches and discussion over the last week. Here they are with some answers.
Seven years ago when I turned 60, my cousin Joel gave me the greatest birthday present you could imagine: my first of my seven trips to the annual Fantasy Tennis Camp at John Newcombe’s ranch in Texas. I was both reluctant and thrilled to accept such a generous offer; but I did and went there [...]
Well, this is the last day of competition. And three months of conditioning seems to have really helped; because I am not tired and nothing hurts. The morning’s clinic was given by Dick Stockton and Marty Reissen on how to hit the overhead (after Dickie showed us his “trick shots”)…
Another sunny and warm Texas day for our second round of team play against the Newk (Willy Hoffmann) Kangaroos. Mark Woodforde and Charlie Pasarel gave the clinic this morning on return of serve. I missed it because I was in the medical tent getting my tennis toe wrapped; but professional tennis writer Joel Drucker was [...]
A thankfully cloudy morning in Texas – and I feel good! Before the morning matches, American doubles specialist Rick Leach talked about some key pointers to focus on hitting the volley:
The morning started off cool; but the temperature warmed up to a perfect mid-80s degrees for our day of training, positioning, and drills. After breakfast, Emmo and Davo Davidson gave a short clinic on hitting the serve:
The time finally arrived for the start of the “best week of my tennis year!” The travel to Camp this year was again in style on “AirBerry” … thanks to Pelican Bay friend John Berry, who invited four of us from South Florida (Willy Hoffmann, Rich Tarantino, and rookie Mike Dahm – John’s good friend [...]
Yesterday, after a light tennis workout (wind down before camp next week), I watched four friends play doubles and came away with two observations that could help my own game.
Is the underhanded serve and underhanded strategy? Fellow Floridian and Newk camper, Willy Hoffmann was playing a K-Swiss League match, when his opponent started to regularly throw in the underhanded serve.
Pelican Bay Super Senior Gordon Hammes will be off to Turkey in one week to play on (and Captain) the US 75s team! He reports as captain, he has received notification of some new line calling rules they will be using in their clay court matches.