When we started filming at the Easter Bowl 3 years ago, we wanted to start creating a video data base for American junior tennis, something that had not been previously done. We also hoped that we would eventually capture future...
A Summary Over the past 4 years we've used the high speed footage from Advanced Tennis to explore the modern...
Confidence in tennis, as in anything else, is the ability to have faith in yourself. It's your belief in yourself...
I first began learning to understand the service box while taking a lesson from the head tennis pro at the Tulsa Tennis Club in the early 1960s. The pro's name was Mr. Chuck Straley. Mr. Straley was a math teacher...
In my previous two articles we looked at the basic principles of all-court tennis (Click Here) and also the range of all-court grips and how they apply to the various strokes and tactical situations. (Click Here.) As I reported in...
Shrewd. I think that word actually landed me the job. In 1984, I was a freshman at Pepperdine University. During my second semester, I learned that Dr. Allen Fox - head coach of the Pepperdine men's tennis team, a former...
Cynthia Yandell, a founding investor in Tennisplayer.net, passed away on October 2 in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 89. And yeah she also happened to be my mom. Mom was born in her family's New Hampshire summer house on...
In 1971 something remarkable happened after Pancho Gonzales, then age 41, announced that he was retiring from professional tennis. The Howard Hughes Open in Las Vegas--then considered a kind of unofficial world pro championship in the days before Open tennis...
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