Kicking the Tennis Bucket List
Bucket lists are aspirational… and slightly morbid. After all, a bucket list contains all the things that you want to experience before you kick theRead More
Define Your Tennis Aspirations
This is the first Friday in November, which means that it is once again time to deep dive into a “gift” to improve your tennisRead More
1 responseA Tennis Symphony
To round out this weekend’s “Unplugged” series of posts, I went searching for one last quirky story that involves tennis balls. In the process IRead More
2 responsesThe Law of Displaced Tennis Balls
The courts at Hurst Tennis Center are adjacent to a popular running trail. Without gates on that side of the facility, retrieving balls that scudRead More
Denying the Lucky Ball
Tennis players can be a superstitious and idiosyncratic lot. For example, some players believe in “lucky” tennis balls. Richard Gasquet is known for demanding theRead More
5 responses(Not) Very Appealing
Prohibiting tennis players with “appealed” ratings from post-season play was one of the ideas discussed on the Second Serve Tennis Podcast episode that I haveRead More
2 responsesSandbagging SOBs
A cultural tradition during USTA League playoffs is to stand around and grouse about teams and individuals performing above their current NTRP rating. Yesterday’s postRead More
1 responseSandbagging: Perception and Perspectives
The Second Serve Podcast ran an episode that shared “solutions” to NTRP Ratings sandbagging last August. From comments that the hosts made subsequently, I knowRead More
3 responsesEgregious Foot Faults
I received a comment a couple of weeks ago from a high school coach. She recently had a player lose a very close match againstRead More
1 responseThe Physics and Geometry Racquet Sport Etiquette
Outside of the competition for scarce court space, the primary source of tension between the tennis and pickleball communities revolves around questions of etiquette. TheRead More