One area of strength for any tennis academy, club or facility is its ability to take its youngest and most beginner-level players and transition them into becoming competitive junior players. For MatchPoint NYC in Brooklyn, a major factor in its success with progressing tennis players is Pavlo “Pasha” Bednarzh, who directs MatchPoint’s QuickStart program,…
Recently, I asked my brother Paul how Rafa continues to be so successful at age 36. His answer was something that we all hear over and over when coaches give advice to their players: he plays every single point as if it were match point. This sounds like an impossible idea to execute and for…
We have all experienced it…that time when our game was just not clicking and you felt a little off. Maybe it was your serve? Maybe it was the forehand or volley? So what did you do? If you’re like most players, you went out to the courts with a hopper of balls and drilled…
MSG Networks today announced it will be airing live coverage of upcoming ATP and WTA tennis tournaments throughout the month of August. The network’s tennis broadcasts will feature live tournament action from the Citi Open in Washington, D.C., the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic in San Jose, the National Bank Open in Montreal/Toronto and the…
Six new members of the USTA Eastern Hall of Fame will be inducted later this summer, as the 35th annual Celebration will be held at The River Club on Friday, August 26. The 2022 class of the Hall of Fame includes: Nick Bollettieri Acclaimed tennis coach Billy Davis 11-time ATA National Champion Bob Davis…
World TeamTennis, the nation’s only professional, mixed-gender team tennis league, has announced that it is accepting expansion proposals from prospective ownership groups and markets that are interested in acquiring a WTT franchise. WTT, which played in single locations during the 2020 and 2021 seasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is also planning to return…
There has been a lot of discussion and controversy in the tennis world lately over the need to adjust technique in accordance with front or cross eye dominance. Notably high profile coach, Patrick Mouratoglou has been outspoken on this topic and is an advocate of learning and modifying techniques based upon this technique. Specificity,…
It is extremely important to get your first serve in and to get your return of serve in play. However, one of the keys to winning a tennis match is to get control of the point more often than your opponent. In addition to making your serve and return of serve, try to get the opponent…
What does it take to be the best? Or the fastest? Coolest? Strongest? This depends on innumerable factors, but most importantly: context. What if, however, achieving the best, is less important to most people than achieving, their best? Sky Kim, a South Korean tennis player, achieved a dream that so many young…
John and Patrick McEnroe have announced that they will be joined by Bob and Mike Bryan, the Bryan Brothers, at the 8th Annual Johnny Mac Tennis Project’s Pro Am in the Hamptons on Saturday, August 27, 2022. The Bryan Brothers are the all-time winningest ATP doubles team and their presence, along with that of…