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I've been put in charge of a series of tennis sessions for kids at a school fun day. 3 groups; 7-8 years, 9-10 years, 11-12 years. Half an hour each, so I should be able to fill the time in fine, but I would like to give it a bit of structure. The important point is that these are just...

Easy one for the peeps here, but something I didn't know: Who is the only mens #1 who hadn't cracked the top 100 by the age of 20?

http://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e4737 Interesting read throughout.

Go to the Bay's UK site, search for Andrew Fitzpatrick :)

This one always tends to go round in circles, but here's a new slant (for me anyway). http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443570904577544984097844856.html?mod=wsj_share_tweet (may be paywalled; I'm not sure) key quotes: "With high-level training so ubiquitous, God-given...

Guess they couldn't afford him... (source: Bloomberg)

Consider a common doubles scenario: two back to receive, server follows serve in, gets a hot return to deal with, blocks it back deep with backspin, so it bounces near the baseline and sits up. So two players at the net facing two back with a deep puffball ball on their racquets. The next ball...

One hour after my first MP, finally closed the deal on my 13th...6-3, 6-7 (7-9), 10-4. 2 MPs on opps serve at 5-2, 4 more in my loooong service game at 5-3, 2 more in the next service game....somehow recomposed myself to hold at love for 6-5, he holds easily, 4 more MPs in the breaker before...

Saw a guy play a futures tournament recently with one of those Lotto ATP shirts; Lotto logo on the front, small ATP logo on the upper back. Like this, apart from the gratuitous ventilation: Umpire told him to change his shirt ... presumably violating some logo policy. He offered to...

Hi all, trying to make sense of the various options here, viz TennisOne, Hi-Tech Tennis, Tennisplayer.net, FYB Premium, some other stuff I probably don't know about. For those with experience of multiple sites, how would you compare them, and which one(s) would you recommend?

What are Nike's trademark lawyers making of this, I wonder?

OK, this stuff is spreading like wildfire during a drought...but as a layman, it really sounds like a bunch of crap...it seems to promise to cure all that ails you via some poorly explained mechanism which allows complete novices to treat everything from carpal tunnel syndrom to political...

A little fun comp: How many players in the top 100 could you identify by sight? By that I mean, not having a vague recollection of what they look like, but rather if they walked past you in the street, you'd say: 'Hey, that's XXX!' ATP Top 100 I can get 70 of them; that's a very...

Hi guys, Basic question about syngut vs multis. I currently play with PSGO; never looked to change cos it's what I'm used to, and I attribute all mistakes to user error rather than equipment. However, I've been thinking that perhaps I'm missing a trick. If I switch from syngut to a...

Interesting article from The Economist: In Praise of Airness Mr Koné’s family arrived in France from Mali in 1982, when he was ten years old. His father was a mechanic, and he and his eight siblings were brought up in a rough Parisian banlieue. His dreams of becoming a professional boxer...

Madrid Masters Fed / Tso point Strikes me as illegal. What do you guys think? (apologies if this has been posted before)

Didn't see this posted; thought it was somewhat interesting: Study

Giles Coren in the Times ...freed from the Wimbledon dress code, Murray wore the black trainers of an urban mugger and an old T-shirt the colour of a Possil towerblock...

Player profile Could cause a few heart-stopping moments when the draws go up...

Sergio Tacchini bought by one of its suppliers Hopefully this will presage bigger and better things for my favourite brand.

With summer upon us, I'm rummaging through the bathroom cabinet and finding plenty of half-used sunscreen bottles from last year (and possibly earlier?!). Should I toss them and buy new ones, or do they maintain their effectiveness over time? Thanks.

Picked up a couple of racquets with this string. Any info appreciated; thanks. How does it compare to say Prince Synthetic Gut?

Carbon nanotubes may be as harmful as asbestos

Can't argue with that IMO. It's tough watching tennis via Sky (UK)...incessant focus on Murray, which is perfectly understandable, but subjects the viewers to having to watch this unresolved bundle of teenage angst sloping miserably around the court snarling and cursing. Anyhow, its all...

With all these Volkl threads flying around, I thought it would be an opportune time to ask...

After the recent back and forth about whether ice baths were bad for you, here's some info on the latest phenomenon: whole body cryotherapy. http://www.aquacity.sk/cryotherapy.aspx Seems lots of elite athletes are starting to use this; there's a facility in Slovakia (linked above), and a...

Please could someone clarify something re Futures tourneys: when a toruney is graded F2 or F9 or Fx, what does this mean? Does it have to do with the number of points or prizemoney at stake?

Hi all, I'm looking for advice as to which pressureless balls have the most similar feel to regular pressurised balls? I've heard good things about the Tretorn Micro X's in this regard...my only experience of Micro X's involved volleying a broken one, and ending up covered in white powder...

So, I gave up on Nike shoes sometime in the '90s. Got burned too many times. However, after a recent shoe crisis, where nothing seemed quite right, I tried out a pair of Air Zoom Revives, challenge my prejudices and all that. Felt pretty good in the shop - heavy shoe, but didn't really feel its...

I'd appreciate any advice on getting the balance right between playing and conditioning. Regarding conditioning, I'm thinking primarily ito injury prevention by strengthening core, shoulders, rotators etc, rather than improving my aerobic fitness or explosiveness or whatever, which I would look...