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My meeting with Tom Perrotta in the NY Tennis magazine office. Ah, New York City in winter! Clear sunny skies, 25 degree temperatures and a wind chill factor that could freeze the marrow in your bones! Actually it can be quite mild in the winter here–just not today. So why am I mentioning this? In the last couple of newsletters, I’ve made some cryptic references to important developments for Tennisplayer and now they can begin to be revealed. The big immediate news is that Tennisplayer has entered into a partnership with Tennis magazine. I I’ve been named a Tennis instructional editor. We’ll be sharing content with Tennis and also, exposing our cutting edge approach to a whole new audience through the Tennis.com website. I’ll be working on this project with my old friend Tom Perrotta, recently named Tennis senior editor. Tom wrote some very insightful pieces for the New York Sun that discussed technique in pro tennis as part of his coverage of the U.S. Open. We got to know each other because I was one of the sources he interviewed for the articles. It’s tremendously exciting because I have been asked to write detailed analytic pieces for the magazine,…