Tips for the over 60 crowd by the over 60 crowd!
Tom McCune and I are both signed up for 65 singles and doubles at this USTA Category II tournament (that suffered through a rainstorm last year). We both played our first round singles match today – against guys “we should beat.”
Naples tennis friend, Jack Lease highlighted some of his pet peeves on tennis Common Court Courtesies that some people don’t follow:
If you want to improve your tennis game, I think your next frontier can be “between your ears.” Playing (almost) “Fearless Tennis” has helped raise my game to a new level.
Watching the Bryan brothers play their first match at the London year-end championships this morning, the announcer made a very interesting comment on the difference between a singles volley and a doubles volley.
Here is a good reader question: “When is it acceptable to overrule your partner? For me I back up my partner on all calls, unless he asked for a second look. I feel it is better for the team and the last thing I want to do is make him feel like crap. Naturally, if [...]
This weekend, Tom McCune and I were invited to represent Naples’ 65-year-olds in this 30th annual two-city, Naples-Ft. Myers Challenge, which was played all day Saturday at Pelican Marsh in Naples. They played singles (for the Juniors and at the lower adult ages) and doubles at 35 and above, up to the 70s.
I am supposed to be a wordsmith, but I am not sure I can adequately describe what I felt and did on the court this week! My young friend Marc VanDam and I played our usual “handicap singles” … where I spot him 24 years (!) and he gives me four points per set (that [...]
“George, Do players who wear glasses, and need different prescriptions for reading and for playing, find that they can play well with one pair which combines both? Or do they find that it’s better to have one pair for playing tennis, driving, etc. and a separate pair for reading?” Best regards, Andrew Kessler
Ask five tennis players what their thoughts are on sports drinks… and you’ll get five different answers!