Welcome to the soft launch of the Tennis for Good website! Please feel free to explore the pages, kick the virtual tires … and provide feedback! In the weeks and months ahead, we’ll be expanding our network of retail partners, evolving our coaching offers, opening our merch store, and more. The wheels are turning, but […]
A core psychological issue keeps me from being my most uninhibited self on the tennis court. It revolves around fear of rejection by the group. It’s a deep and ancient issue for me — call it my personal demon. If I could excise it — or, since we’re talking demons, exorcise it — that would open me […]
Tennis has some basic rules. Hit the ball before it bounces twice so that it lands on or inside the lines. That’s basically it, with a lot of fine-tuning (serving rules, net cord rules, double-hit rules, and so on). Beyond these rules, tennis is what we make of it. A select few pursue it for […]
A practice partner once said to me about playing tennis: “If you’re thinking, you’re stinking.” Was he right? When you’re playing tennis, is thinking, by definition, overthinking? Or are there shades of thinking only some of which are a problem? I’ve tried to get at a useful answer by compiling the sort of things that go on inside […]
I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons. -Yannick Noah What does courage look like on the tennis court? We can start with another quote, this one from Arthur Ashe: “You’ve got to get to the stage in life […]
I am an admirer of Timothy Gallwey’s The Inner Game of Tennis, and I am also a skeptic. He broke important new ground — his discovery of the inner game is to tennis what Columbus’s discovery of the New World was to Europeans. Wow! Who knew? I find his approach a bit on the simplistic […]
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