An engineer overthinks tennis in a daily journal.
I recently finished A Tennis Life: Tales from the Ad Court by Lane Evans, a longtime tennis professional whose career has included playing, teaching, managing clubs, developingRead More
Last weekend I watched Craig Tiley: Tennis Innovator, a short “documentary” produced by Tennis Channel in conjunction with the USTA. The 24-minute film profiles the formerRead More
Steve Flink is probably one of the few people who could write Immortals of American Tennis with firsthand connections spanning a significant portion of the history heRead More
The Racquet Stringer by Chris Merrill starts with a somewhat absurd premise. Brock Armstrong, a high-performance junior player, suddenly remembers he neglected to get his racquetsRead More
The USTA credentialed over 100 social media influencers for this year’s US Open, a decision that drew noticeable attention from the traditional press. Some ofRead More
When Amazon recommended Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Cabinet by Michael Patrick Cullinane, my first reaction was suspicion. The title sounded almost too perfectly calibrated to myRead More
The Cruelest Game: Chasing Greatness in Professional Tennis by Matthew Futterman is ostensibly a search for the “secret codes” that separate the very best tennis playersRead More
Serving First: Dreams Realized and Lessons Learned from Family, Friends and a Life in Tennis is ostensibly the autobiography of Charlie Pasarell, but describing it simplyRead More
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I recently stumbled across Killer Doubles: Strategies and Tactics for Better Tennis in a used bookstore. This title was published in 2014, which gives the foreword byRead More
Gerry Donohue is an established author of books and magazine articles spanning a wide variety of topics. Stop Losing Points: 50 Mistakes Recreational Tennis Players MakeRead More