An engineer overthinks tennis in a daily journal.
I feel compelled to note that I am not scouring the internet for clips of umpires missing calls. However, missed calls are the ones that tend to be captured and posted to YouTube, so that is generally what turns up in searches. Additionally, missed calls are usually great backdrops for more extensive discussions about the nuances of the rules. They are also fabulously entertaining.
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One of the ways I entertain myself each year as the annual update to the USTA League Regulations is published is by bitterly counting theRead More
Last week, I received an email from the USTA packed with information for Adult tennis players. The headlined content was the release of the 2025Read More
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Last Sunday, I stumbled across an anomaly in USTA League TennisLink standings calculations. This all happened because I subjected myself to a tortuous self-indulgent exerciseRead More
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Last week at the French Open, two situations arose that are interesting data points to further inform the debate over the use of video reviewRead More
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After the 2024 French Open wildcards were announced, the French Tennis Federation was sharply criticized by the media for awarding most of the slots toRead More
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I am not sure anyone else noticed, but a couple of weeks ago, Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sofia Kenin nearly served out of order at theRead More
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Until the past two months, I didn’t fully appreciate that the USTA has implemented two independent suspension point systems. Leagues and Tournaments have separate scheduleRead More
Over the past month and a half, I wrote a series of 21 posts about an incident that occurred earlier this year at the TomRead More
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Earlier this year, a doubles team retired from a match at the Tom Fey Tri-Level National Invitational Championships. It was deemed to be an actRead More
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