Breaking the Round Robin
The format of the USTA NTRP National Championships presumes a field of 32 participants. It is designed to be conducted in two stages. The initialRead More
3 responsesAn engineer overthinks tennis in a daily journal.
The format of the USTA NTRP National Championships presumes a field of 32 participants. It is designed to be conducted in two stages. The initialRead More
3 responsesThe recent emergence of Carlos Alcaraz as the heir-apparent to Rafael Nadal is evidence that the tennis player development program in Spain is having aRead More
1 responseI started playing tennis long before my 10th birthday. At the time, special rules for “10 and Under” tennis tournaments wasn’t a thing. We usedRead More
3 responsesJon Wertheim declares the WTA’s return to China as a complete capitulation. A community theater in Colorado takes on the war between pickleball and tennisRead More
Last weekend, I played my first real doubles short-set tiebreak game at the NTRP 18+ Doubles National Championships. After the first two points, my partnerRead More
3 responsesEver since I played in the inaugural NTRP 50+ Championships in 2018, I have been lobbying hard for an update to the shortened tie-breaker usedRead More
4 responsesManifestation is a pseudoscientific self-help strategy based on the idea that merely thinking about something causes it to come to fruition. It also frequently hasRead More
1 responseEarlier this month, Apple TV+ released a new documentary on Boris Becker. It is structured into two episodes. “Triumph” runs one hour and 37 minutes,Read More
3 responsesChina 1, WTA 0. The WTA will return to operations in China later this year. Iga Swiatek makes the TIME Magazine list of the topRead More
2 responsesTennis lost one of its most ardent advocates last week. Harriett Hulbert passed away on April 6 at age 89. This post contains the announcementRead More