Tennis Beyond the Headlines: October 21, 2024
Revisiting Peng Shuai’s unresolved disappearance and dissecting Jannik Sinner’s rise to the top. A real Roland Garros trophy will be auctioned off this week. RevisitingRead More
Why Wait? Visualize a Brighter Future in Tennis
This is the third and final installment of a series of posts on the value of getting a head start on your goals during theRead More
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
Professional Tennis Drills
When it comes to tennis drill books, I’m of two minds. On the one hand, I believe everyone deserves access to a resource that helpsRead More
Have You Read the Rules? (Can You Even Find Them?)
I frequently write from a USTA Texas-centric perspective on this site. That is natural because it is the Section where I played my Junior tennisRead More
2 responsesEvery Day I’m Shuffling (Or at Least I Should Be)
This week’s featured tennis exercise briefly appeared in Season 2, Episode 5 of the Netflix docuseries “Break Point.” Jessica Pegula and Maria Sakkari were preparingRead More
Tennis Beyond the Headlines: October 14, 2024
Rafael Nadal will retire from tennis after next month’s Davis Cup finals. Billie Jean King has been named Grand Marshal for the 2025 Tournament ofRead 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