Tips for the over 60 crowd by the over 60 crowd!
If you want to get a little more pace on your service motion, a tip from Rick Macci (that I saw on Tennis Channel) says: think about what your ball-tossing arm is doing while you are serving.
If you do nothing else to improve your doubles game, “moving with the ball” is key to success; and here is a video from a great tennis website that really shows the basics.
Here’s one that happened to us in a recent doubles match; and the question is, do you play a let or not?
While most of my tennis friends practice “The Three I’s” for rehab – Ice, Ibuprofen, and Imbibing (!) – the true standard acronym to follow for acute and sudden injuries is RICE: Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation.
Remember the conversation we’ve had about what happens when you change your line call? Well, the rule is changing.
Different from WWF wrestling, tennis is a classy game; one that comes with great traditions and civility. Here is the list of the pet peeves that blog readers have suggested that some people follow and others do not. Are YOU on this list?
Here are two topics for today’s post: this line call and a Longboat Key look back.
Today, Tom and I played round two against the #4 seeded team (who had beaten us last year at the Colonial). We were feeling good about how we played in the first match and were hoping to carry it forward today.
Today’s tennis results will be brief; but more interesting to many will be what will be happening with the January USTA Super Senior Series in Florida.
Well, there is Good News and Bad News from Longboat Key today. Apart from the tennis, a big cold front pushed through Tuesday night… dropping the temps by 20 degrees and increasing the wind velocity by 20 mph’s for Tom and my second round singles matches today.