During yesterdays match, Isner and Mahut battled out an epic 3 day match that remains unfinished.  After 10 hours of play the score remains tied in the fifth set 59-59.  McEnroe and Gilbert discuss and breakdown the match.   

Lately, warm ups for USTA Tournaments and Leagues have evolved into playing mini-tennis with the opponent for 25 minutes (!), followed by hitting competitively, instead of cooperatively! Please view video, to remind ourselves how the warm up should be conducted.

ADDvantage magazine (December 08) features an article (page 26) by Hans Römer about the USPTA certification process.

If you don't know how to keep the ball in play first and foremost, trying increase how aggressive you hit the ball is going result in more errors, keeping your ratio of points won to lost the same if not worse. So lets look quickly at the three main ways that a tennis point can end:

Tennis has been considered for a long time a very difficult sport to learn. One has to mind where to place the arms, the feet, watch the balance, weight transfer, how you take your racquet back, etc. This is false, cultivated from the late 1920s on, and still very much in vogue in most of the world. The truth is that tennis is a simple game and easy to learn. Just watch the top players to see how loose, natural and fluid they play.

When you watch a top tennis pro, you marvel at his ability to place the ball regardless of the power generated by the shot. You may also admire the player's focus, graceful moves, demeanor, attitude, will to win, and how he handles the power of the other player.

I would like to talk to you about the strings in your racquet.  Have you ever played guitar with bad strings? It sounds aweful.  New strings give your racquet the fresh feel and that popping sound.