Cat, Cow, and Child’s Pose
This week’s featured training technique is once again drawn from the Netflix docuseries Carlos Alcaraz: My Way. In this clip, Alcaraz moves through a short yogaRead More
Tennis Beyond the Headlines: June 16, 2025
From rising stars to century-old legends, rule changes to (apparently) romance novels—a quick spin through the recent tennis news you might have missed. Tennis WasRead More
Happy Father’s Day, A Personal Update, and We’re Still Battling
It has become something of a tradition for me to write about the Trophy Husband on Father’s Day. Over the years, those posts have typicallyRead More
5 responsesMore Tennis Dad Jokes for Father’s Day
To round out this Father’s Day weekend, we are revisiting a couple of classic tennis dad jokes. These groaners make regular appearances on courts everywhere,Read More
Tennis Dad Jokes: The Intentional Whiff
During the 2023 US Open, I was astonished to see Hsieh Su-Wei commit an egregious dad joke during her semifinal women’s doubles match. My definitionRead More
Follow-Up: Streaming Roland-Garros — The Good, the Clunky, and my TLDW moment.
Shortly before Roland-Garros got underway last month, the post “Watching/Streaming Roland-Garros” expressed my trepidation about the move of the US broadcast rights to Warner Bros.Read More
New USTA Rule Limits Captains to One Team at the National Championships Starting in 2026
It’s theoretically possible for a person to captain two teams from different Sections that qualify for the same USTA League National Championships. Previously, the USTARead More
One Arm Overhead Chop with Reverse Lunge?
I generally work under the basic assumption that any exercise the top professional tennis players are seen performing is beneficial for tennis. Such is certainlyRead More
Tennis Beyond the Headlines: June 9, 2025
A big leadership departure from the USTA, the grass court season is officially underway, and ebbs and flows in the pursuit of gender parity withinRead More
The Importance of Showing Up in Tennis Friendships
This weekend, we’ve been exploring how tennis friendships are forged through intention and deepened through the generosity of our time. Today, we turn our attentionRead More