If you’re a weekend, recreational player you probably play tennis without thinking much about your strings. But, you should. The experts say, to maintain proper performance, you should restring your racquet as many times per year as you play per week (5 times a week means 5 restringing per year). I’ll talk in the next [...]
Tennis Practice and the 10,000 Hour Rule
I am a believer that as long as you are not injured, and you enjoy what you’re doing, there is no such thing as too much practice. After all, practice makes perfect, right? And, I’m not alone with this reasoning. The virtues of frequent practice has some backing in what is called The 10,000 hour [...]
What Age to Start Kids in Tennis?
A wonderful thing about tennis is that you can start at any age and enjoy yourself just as much as if you’d been playing forever. Kids who start at age 12 are just as likely to love tennis as those who start at age 6. Sports like football and hockey, for instance, aren’t the same. [...]
The Right Racquet! Many Right Answers
You’ve seen the professionals playing with specific racquet lines from Head, Prince, Völkl, Wilson, Donnay, blah blah blah. Maria Sharapova, for example, plays with a Head IG Instinct. David Ferrer plays with a Prince Tour 100. Each player is sponsored by a brand, and each player chooses which racquet from that brand with which to [...]
Waiting for a Court? Play Dink!
Dink is a game you can play while waiting for a court to become available. It is a replacement for boringly, uselessly staring, longingly from the wrong side of the fence, wishing that you were the lucky bastard actually playing tennis instead of waiting for tennis. Waiting stinks. You should play dink instead. There are [...]
QuickStart Tennis is the Best Way to Learn
If you haven’t heard of QuickStart and you have a kid who wants to learn to play tennis, listen up. QuickStart is a program that the USTA is promoting to get more kids involved with tennis. In an effort to make tennis more enjoyable and to re-energize America’s youth to the sport, the USTA is [...]
Tennis is the Gentleman’s Sport – Except When it Isn’t
There are few sports who’s participants are themselves entirely responsible for keeping track of scores and deciding, on their own, the quality of play (are the shots in or out?). Soccer, football, baseball, basketball, hockey, rugby, cricket, racing sports, and even boxing have umpires and judges to ensure fair play. But tennis, at every level [...]
Playing Tennis at Any Age
Becoming a professional tennis player is a long and arduous journey. Anybody wanting to go that route needs to start young. However, becoming a pro is not what tennis is all about; there’s more. In fact, tennis is mostly all about not going pro. Sure, being a great player is a dream for a lot [...]
Tennis on Vacation
I write “Tennis on Vacation” but I might as well be talking about any activity you like to do and which you don’t want to give up when you travel. The most popular vacation exercise that people do is obviously running. That’s easy. You pack some shoes and, after you are wearing the shoes, move [...]
Tennis in the Gym: A Golden Opportunity
Tennis in Boulder Colorado is a year round activity. That fact notwithstanding a lot of people will say, rightfully, “What about the snow and cold?” That’s true, it does snow around here, and that presents some down days for tennis on the rare occasion that the snow accumulates and doesn’t melt in a day or [...]
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