Why Wait? Serve It Up Now
Earlier this week, I decided to inject a little serendipity into my off-season training block by seeking and acting on training suggestions from ChatGPT. Yesterday,Read More
Why Wait? Faster Footwork By New Year’s Day
There are slightly over ten weeks until New Year’s Eve when many people will set resolutions, goals, and intentions for 2025. Why wait? Rather thanRead More
The Price of Dead Ends in Adult Tennis
I don’t think influencers and thought leaders within the tennis ecosystem spend enough time strategizing about the competitive pathway. Alternatively, perhaps we just don’t thinkRead More
The Price of Playing to the Middle
Yesterday’s post (The Price of Success In Senior Women’s Tennis) described how the USTA National financial incentive structure makes it hard for many Sections toRead More
The Price of Success In Senior Women’s Tennis
I am a member of a task force chartered by the National Women’s Tennis Organization (NWTO) to examine how we can improve the USTA’s supportRead More
1 responseFail Faster: The Critical Skill of Tennis
This weekend, we have been exploring how failure can be a valuable tool for growth in tennis and how finding the sweet spot of failureRead More
Finding the Sweet Spot of Failure
Failure is an inevitable part of the journey toward tennis mastery. As discussed in the previous post, sometimes failure is the best option because itRead More
Failure is (Sometimes) the Best Option
Throughout 2024, I am dedicating the first full weekend of every month to exploring the application of design-oriented thinking to improve our tennis lives. ThisRead More
Why is it (almost) always the Singles?
One of the more annoying aspects of the situation I have been writing about over the past couple of weekends was more evidence of theRead More
1 responseEvaluating the Alternatives of Shortened Formats for USTA League Championships
Yesterday, I detailed an unconventional method recently used to shorten play during local USTA League playoffs. That post highlighted the apparent competitive inequities created whenRead More