Close Calls on the Far Side of the Net
Yesterday, I shared a relatively hot competitive tennis take: All players make errors on line calls from time to time. Today, I am turning myRead More
Bad Line Calls
I’ve played a lot of tennis throughout my life. Consequently, I know with absolute certainty that I’ve made a few bad line calls. It wouldRead More
1 responseFirst Service: Andrea Jaeger
Andrea Jaeger enjoyed a meteoric rise to tennis stardom in the early 1980s. She turned pro when she was 14 and reached her career-high rankingRead More
Should There Be a Rule Against This?
Once upon a time, when my daughter was a very young junior, our neighborhood tennis court was frequently occupied by a soccer coach giving privateRead More
1 responseA “Landmine” Training Technique from Carlos Alcaraz
I was only a few minutes into screening the new Netflix docuseries Carlos Alcaraz: My Way before realizing I would be breaking down many of theRead More
Tennis Beyond the Headlines: May 5, 2025
From power outages to line-calling chaos, a whirlwind roundup of offbeat headlines and under-the-radar tennis stories you might have missed. Tennis adopted electronic line callingRead More
Try New Experiences to Rediscover the Joy of Tennis
Drawing inspiration from Gretchen Rubin’s New York Times bestselling book, The Happiness Project, I am making this month all about making intentional efforts to have moreRead More
What Tennis Meant to Me at Ten (And Why It Still Matters)
One of the techniques Gretchen Rubin recommends in her New York Times bestselling book “The Happiness Project” is to think about what you enjoyed when you wereRead More
Work at Play: Making Tennis Fun Again
Throughout 2025, we are spending the first full weekend of each month with posts inspired by Gretchen Rubin in her New York Times bestselling book, TheRead More
Carlos Alcaraz: My Way
Netflix has recently released the much-anticipated docuseries Carlos Alcaraz: My Way. The three episodes of this show are positioned as an intimate look at the rise ofRead More