Do You Trust Your Second Serve?

Do You Trust Your Second Serve?

by | Nov 17, 2023 | Tennis Blog

Your first serve is your aggressive serve. You use it to go on offense and, with a bit of skill and luck, you ace your opponent. But the first serve doesn’t always go in. Your second serve is your trusted serve. Use it to stay in the game after the first serve...
Are You Prepared?

Are You Prepared?

by | Nov 12, 2023 | Tennis Blog

How prepared are you for your next game? Another way to ask this question is how seriously do you take winning and losing?  Preparation takes many forms. Do you stretch your muscles? What is your strategy? How well do you know the style of your double’s partner?...
There’s So Much We Don’t Know

There’s So Much We Don’t Know

by | Nov 7, 2023 | Tennis Blog

The two-sided, beauty-and-the-beast nature of tennis is the depth of the game, the exquisite nuances to learn, and the frustration of knowing how much we don’t know. Above, you see the tennis books in my library. These don’t even come close to all the...
Never Too Old Or Too Late

Never Too Old Or Too Late

by | Nov 4, 2023 | Tennis Blog

This is Phillip Allman, 99 at the time this photo was taken in 2022, and hailed as possibly the world’s oldest tennis player. He reminds me of the title of a book in my tennis library, Never Too Old to Play Tennis by Mansfield Latimer. There’s a comforting...
Fight Spiritual Wars With Spiritual Weapons

Fight Spiritual Wars With Spiritual Weapons

by | Nov 2, 2023 | Today I Will

Today I accept that I am fighting a spiritual war. I will resist, with spiritual weapons, “any human act or attitude that forms an obstacle to the emancipating knowledge of God contained in the Gospel of Christ and that keeps people (me) in bondage to...