Tips for the over 60 crowd by the over 60 crowd!
Here are three items about Florida tennis … a new website for the Super Senior Series, notes about the top pros at Key Biscayne, and Florida’s upcoming sectionals.
Next week, my soon-to-be five year old grandson will be coming to Florida for a visit. I will again be putting a tennis racquet in his hand; but what is the best way to get him really interested in playing the game?
This weekend, I teamed with Mike Griner (Tom McCune is up north) in the Pelican Bay doubles against three other solid teams … in the same Saturday-seven-game-round-robin and Sunday championship format.
A Faithful Reader, Andrew Kessler writes, “11 days ago I played an extra intense doubles game for about 45 minutes longer than usual. Nothing exceptional, but the next morning I felt stiffness behind my knee, and some instability causing me to favor the leg and limp without fully extending the leg.
This weekend was the first half of the Pelican Bay Club Championships with many divisions; and I played in a small singles round robin format – which proved very challenging.
Where can the returner’s partner stand and what can he do while the serve is coming? That was the topic after tennis today and the answers are not clear (to me at least).