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	<description>Tips for the over 60 crowd by the over 60 crowd!</description>
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		<title>Pelican Bay Finals</title>
		<link>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/03/08/471/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marc VanDam writes: &#8220;Yesterday I got to play in the singles final of the club championship. In the open division there were not that many entries, so on Saturday they played a type of round robin set up, with the winners of the most games meeting in the finals on Sunday.
My opponent was 50 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Finals</title>
		<link>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/03/06/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-finals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/03/06/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-finals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/?p=469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend was the singles section of the Pelican Bay Club tournament; and I entered the “Open” Division.  There were six entries; so the tournament committee divided us into two groups of three players, seeding Marc VanDam in one group and me in the other.
The assumption was that he would win his round robin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Give Up</title>
		<link>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/03/05/never-give-up-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/03/05/never-give-up-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fitness Tips]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/?p=463</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After a practice session yesterday with Tom McCune, we walked by a court with a ball machine session going on.  But the thing that struck me was the guy who was hitting balls was about 5’ 2” and looked to be in his 80s!
I said to Tom, “Look at that.  I want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tough Tournament Format</title>
		<link>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/03/01/tough-tournament-format/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/03/01/tough-tournament-format/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local - FL]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/?p=459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend was the Pelican Bay Club doubles competition.  There were MANY men’s and women’s divisions; so the tournament format was a round-robin on Saturday and the finals on Sunday.  But this ended up being tricky… and tough to play.
In our Men’s Open Division, there were only four teams; so we were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is It Time To Talk?</title>
		<link>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/02/25/is-it-time-to-talk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/02/25/is-it-time-to-talk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tennis rules]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/?p=455</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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…
According to one of the guys, a former referee, you can say “whatever you want when the ball is on your side of the court.”  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Soft Serve</title>
		<link>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/02/20/the-soft-serve/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/02/20/the-soft-serve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tennis Tips]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/?p=451</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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?  
Any good player will get used to seeing the same shot over and over.  So even if you have a good serve, if you hit it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How did you play?</title>
		<link>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/02/14/how-did-you-play/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/02/14/how-did-you-play/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Tennis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tennis Tips]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/?p=448</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t fall into the negative filtering trap.”  By that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Payne Park, Quarters</title>
		<link>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/02/11/payne-park-quarters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/02/11/payne-park-quarters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tournaments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USTA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/?p=445</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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, Reinaldo (“Oscar” in NJ) Valor and I played our quarterfinal [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tournament: Payne Park, Sarasota</title>
		<link>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/02/10/tournament-payne-park-sarasota/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/02/10/tournament-payne-park-sarasota/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tournaments]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/?p=439</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ooops. Changing a Line Call</title>
		<link>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/02/07/ooops-changing-a-line-call/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/02/07/ooops-changing-a-line-call/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tennis rules]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/?p=436</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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). [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Naples Bath: Consolation Doubles</title>
		<link>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/01/30/naples-bath-consolation-doubles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/01/30/naples-bath-consolation-doubles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tournaments]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/?p=433</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After losing to Parker/Nash, Tom and I entered the “backdraw” (consolation dubs) to see if we could take the good form and do something more with it.
We had a first round bye and then played Mike Fenster and Mike Gainer from NC in the quarters.  During warmup, I felt this was a team that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Naples Bath: Doubles</title>
		<link>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/01/28/naples-bath-doubles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/01/28/naples-bath-doubles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tournaments]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/?p=431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, Tom and I played the #1 seeded team of big Dave Nash (who just beat me in singles) and Jimmy Parker from Santa Fe (seeded #2 in singles) on the Naples Bath &#038; Tennis “show court.”
And if you could ever feel good about losing, today was one of those days!
Before the match, Tom and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Naples Bath: Second Round Singles</title>
		<link>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/01/26/naples-bath-second-round-singles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/01/26/naples-bath-second-round-singles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tournaments]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/?p=428</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today’s match was against David Nash, the #4 seed – only because he hasn’t played a tournament in 18 months (since injuring his elbow while representing the U.S. at the WORLD’S in Turkey!).  But he was still plenty tough.
Dave looks and plays like Mike Dahm (another strong player).  I was told he had [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Naples Bath: Monday</title>
		<link>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/01/25/naples-bath-monday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/01/25/naples-bath-monday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tournaments]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/?p=425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is The Big One: Super Seniors Category II at the former Naples Bath &#038; Tennis Club (now Sanchez Academy).  With a total of 328 entries from all over the country (and beyond), it has depth in every age group from 55 to 90!
My first round singles match was against Paul Veltman, a regular [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sterling Oaks: Thursday</title>
		<link>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/01/21/sterling-oaks-thursday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.seniortennisandfitness.com/index.php/2010/01/21/sterling-oaks-thursday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tournaments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consolation singles quarter finals match against Gary Wilson of DC, who beat me two years ago 7-6, 6-4 and I returned the favor by beating him in the same score two weeks ago (both matches taking two hours).
Well, another battle today.
I was able to control the points and the play for a set and a [...]]]></description>
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