An engineer overthinks tennis in a daily journal.
This is a comprehensive summary of my advice to prospective players for the 2024 NTRP National Championships as the registration deadline approaches. This capstone summarizesRead More
Starting in 2024, the USTA is offering 18+ Mixed doubles at the NTRP National Championships. The initiative actually started last year as Sections conducted theRead More
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I genuinely thought last weekend’s posts breaking down new rules for player selection at the forthcoming 2024 NTRP National Championships would put the topic toRead More
Harry Hopman was a tennis player who is better known as the legendary coach and architect of the dominant Australian Davis Cup teams in theRead More
S.C.F. Peile’s 1887 book, ‘Lawn Tennis as a Game of Skill‘ is a veritable time capsule recording how the rules of lawn tennis were understoodRead More
For the past few months, I have been sharing tennis training techniques gleaned from last season’s Netflix docuseries ‘Break Point.” We have now reached theRead More
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Get ready for the 2024 Australian Open with Nick Kyrgios has joined ESPN’s commentary team. The Ukraine-U.S. Davis Cup qualifier will be played in Lithuania.Read More
End-of-season championships are a fun and exciting culmination of a competitive season. In tennis, both the ATP and WTA professional tours conduct an end-of-year ChampionshipRead More
Based on the number of questions I have been receiving on the topic, Automatic Qualification (AQ) may be one of the least understood aspects ofRead More
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Last August, the USTA rolled out new qualification standards for the NTRP National Championship tournaments. The updates are effective for this year’s events in 2023.Read More