A Hot Take of My Own
Last weekend I competed in the 18+ USTA Sectional League Championships in Texas. We are in the middle of a heat wave and the temperatureRead More
Hot Takes from 18+ USTA League Sectionals
Regular readers of this site know that I generally try to link the “Unplugged” posts into natural sets of three with a common unifying theme.Read More
The Heat Is On / Cold Plunge Revisited
This summer, the United States has been embroiled (see what I did there?) in an epic heat wave. Texas is usually hot at this timeRead More
Hard Courts: Real Life on the Professional Tennis Tours
In 1990, John Feinstein spent the year traveling with the professional tennis tours. Hard Courts: Real Life on the Professional Tennis Tours peels back theRead More
(No So) Smooth Operator
I have one last rules analysis post stemming from the 2023 Championships at Wimbledon. A clip of chair umpire Nico Helwerth catching a ball mid-airRead More
1 responsePower Squats
This week’s training technique demonstrated by Greek tennis player Maria Sakkari sparks a philosophical debate. In S1 E3 of the Netflix docuseries “Break Point,” sheRead More
Tennis News: August 7, 2023
There was a lot of annoying news this week, starting with a Jimmy Arias critique that the way Iga Swiatek wears her hat is badRead More
The Confidence Game
This weekend I have been examining techniques tennis players can use to improve their “Mental Fitness.” It was the topic slated for the first weekendRead More
Practicing Mental Fitness
If you want to play like a champion, you have to practice like a champion. The very best players in Senior Adult tennis work onRead More
The Mental Fitness Mindset
Last December, I wrote a series of posts highlighting the “12 Habits of Highly Successful Tennis Players.” Throughout 2023, the first weekend of every monthRead More