Frenchman Gael Monfils made a successful return to action at the Moselle Open in Metz, defeting Belgium’s Olivier Rochus 6-3, 6-2 in a little over an hour. The 26-year-old Monfils was playing his first match in four months, since a second-round exit at the Open de Nice Côte d’Azur in May. He improved to an 11-2 record at…
I’m asked many times how power is achieved in tennis shots. We see on TV many players on tour with amazing power. While of the world’s best players are bigger, faster and stronger than in years past, and technology has improved the racquets, the answer to generating power is still in the timing of two…
The Eastern Conference Championship match was tied at 14 games all with one match to play. With the final match of the night being the Women’s Singles match that meant Venus Williams (Kastles) would face Ashley Harkelroad (Sportimes) to determine which team would face the Sacramento Capitals (Western Conference Champions) in the 2012 WTT Finals….
The U.S. lost to Spain 3-1, in the 2012 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group Semifinal, held on an outdoor red clay court at the Parque Hermanos Castro in Gijon, Spain. In the first and only rubber of the day, John Isner lost to David Ferrer, 6-7(3), 6-3, 6-4, 6-2, causing Ferrer to clinch the…
I was asked this past spring by the parents of some of my five-year-old students if I would consider starting a class for two-, three- and four-year-olds. The younger children had been coming to my club as tagalongs to their siblings’ lessons and were feeling left out. Secure in my belief that Google would rescue…
Spain’s Nicolas Almagro outlasted American John Isner 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 in four hours and 16 minutes to extend Spain’s advantage at its 2012 Davis Cup semifinals match in Spain, heading into Saturday’s action. Almagro converted three of his 19 break points and won 77 per cent of his first serve points to notch his…
It’s late in the summer and you want to play college tennis and use your tennis game to help your college prospects, but you haven’t done anything yet to prepare for your college search. This is what you should do first … If you graduated high school in 2012 … Know what you want to…
The 2012 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group semifinal match between the United States and Spain is set for this weekend in Gijon, Spain, at the Parque Hermanos Castro on an outdoor red clay court. The U.S. will play on the road for the seventh time in its last eight ties since defeating Switzerland…
"The highest reward for a person’s work is not what they get for it, but what they become of it."—John Rushkin Did you ever watch a professional tennis match and wonder how the players make their extraordinary shots look so effortless? Perhaps you even thought it looks so easy that you should be able to…
One of the first things we are told when we begin our journey in tennis is that the serve is the most important shot. Unfortunately, I ask many intermediate and advanced players about the simple biomechanics of the serve, and they become suddenly mute. We all understand that the toss is vital when trying to…