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A friend of ours, a former conference-level singles player with three years as a high-performance junior coach, forwarded us an offer letter last spring.
You are down 30-40 on your own serve. You toss the ball, and somewhere between the toss and the contact a small committee convenes in your head and starts arguing.
You are standing at the back fence watching your first league match. The score reaches what sounds like a tie — both players have won three points — and someone calls out "deuce." A few seconds later…
If you play on clay more than a handful of times a season, you have probably felt it: the foot that should plant and instead keeps going, the slide that doesn't stop where you asked it to, the moment…
Walk into any racquet club with a sore outer elbow and you'll hear the same sentence within five minutes: get a compression sleeve, it'll help.
There is a number worth staring at before you spend anything: about $120. That is the gap between a competent budget tennis shoe — call it the $60 tier — and a current flagship court shoe at $180.
The "official" color of a standard tennis ball is not the one most people would name on the spot. The International Tennis Federation calls it yellow.
On a tournament entry sheet, the word bye sits next to a player's name like a small gift. No opponent. No first match. Straight into round two while everyone else sweats through an opener.
There is a sentence we hear at the stringing bench at least once a week, usually from a 4.5 who has just bought a balance board off the internet: "head-light is for control, head-heavy is for power…
Walk into any club on a humid Saturday and you can sort the players by their foreheads. Some are dabbing with a wristband between points; others have a band of fabric across the brow doing the work…