An engineer overthinks tennis in a daily journal.
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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Believe it or not, we are very close to the end of a deep-dive exploration of the rules implications surrounding an incident that occurred earlierRead More
Last Sunday, I shared the observation that the USTA League Regulations do not assign authority for the assessment of suspension points in the same wayRead More
Fun fact: The USTA League National Regulations don’t outline any responsibilities or authority for the Referee at any level of competition. Yesterday, in our ongoingRead More