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Yes sir, that is the exact reason many posters have left the board, or post much more sporadically than they once did. It was bad enough having to put up with the occasional obnoxious know-it-all adult let alone be "corrected" by a clueless kid.

Yesterday morning I was getting ready for work and the TV was on in the background. I heard a voice I recognized immediately. It was none other than the recently deceased Billy Mays hawking what else? Health insurance. I guess whoever scheduled the commercials Monday morning didn't get the memo...

I believe the board first started in 1998/1999/2000. Not sure exactly which year. It was revamped to the new format in 2004. At that point, all past posts were suddenly gone and everyone started off with a zero post count again. I think I remember very early on when there was just one...

You can use lead tape. Just cut into strips the length of your grip and apply it lengthwise along the grip bevels underneath your synthetic grip. Doing so will increase the grip size slightly. (1/16"?) And it will increase racket weight quite a bit (an ounce?) as well as pulling the balance down...

This again? To really understand the terms, and confusion involved, you must first accept that, with regard to serves, the term twist was once used in tennis as we now use the term spin. In Tilden's era, a twist serve was simply a spin serve. For the most part that would mean what we now call...

The morning after my post above, I emailed the good Dr. Wiezel and informed him that his simplified swingweight formula doesn't work but he hasn't replied. I would think you could probably come out with a formula that approximates swing weight given it is a function of weight, balance, head...

Maybe if works fine, but I'm never going to use that method. Pencils, phone books, stopwatches, not gonna do it. Out of curiosity, and perhaps boredom, I conducted an extensive internet search to find a formula for racket swingweight. I found sites that had sw calculators for fly rods and golf...

Yes, a couple of ounces makes a big difference. My favorite customized racket weighs in at over 14.0 ounces and is about 11 points head light. I'm not a fan of light rackets. I can't play with a racket that weighs below 13 ounces. It feels like a toy to me. I find the added mass makes a racket...

Are you sure she didn't say she was 60 rather than 6.0?

It could go either way, I voted Fed because I think Murray will be nervous. Murray played very well and served big against Rafa so anything is possible. Also depends on which version of Fed shows up and whether or not Murray freaks out about being in a GS Final. Hopefully, it will be well...

Take a pin and puncture the balloon. Ergo, Volume = 0.

J Mac Sr is 73. (J Mac Jr turns 50 in February, 2009.) Seems a bit too old for the job. Also his experience is confined to being a legal counsel. Being well qualified to review a contract doesn't position one to head the ATP. The ATP needs a marketing genius much more than a lawyer if revenue...

Ashe had a previous engagement to attend a very important meeting in an undisclosed location. Other notable attendees at the meeting included Don Budge, Pancho Gonzales, Bobby Riggs and Vitas Gerulaitis. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss a system by which they, as a committee, could...

Super Bowl III AFL NY Jets beat the NFL Baltimore Colts 16-7 on 1/12/69 in the Orange Bowl. The Colts were 15-1 going into the game and were 28 point favorites. Two weeks before, they had destroyed the only team they lost to during the regular season, the Cleveland Browns, in the NFL...

Agree that the racket didn't have CAPS and the worm dampener was quite funny. Donald actually broke a string last night. Seems like players rarely break strings anymore. He may have switched to another frame since last year. The stringerss who string his rackets could probably tell you for...

Barry is definitely an old school commentator a la Dick Enberg. I can see where some people find him a bit annoying. He plays dumb and asks the color commentators obvious questions so they can sound informed. His basic assumption seems to be most viewers know next to nothing about tennis (not...

What was the outcome of her lawsuit against her parents? It was concerning ownership of a house in Miami.

Hey Boris, phone call for you, it's Paul McCartney, he says it is something about a prenuptial agreement. I didn't think Boris dated white chicks. He's a super freak. At least he didn't meet this one in a broom closet.

Approximately 10 grams. For example, the i prestige mp xl set weighs about 28 grams, the Cap lm prestige mp set weights about 39 grams. The Prestige mid grommets should weigh a little bit less than mid plus grommets, but a ball park difference should be 10 grams. Unless you are very sensitive...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRxKl0zz2tE&feature=related Here's your boy back in the day (1966?) with a couple of other guys of whom you may have heard. The Ravihe mentions in the interview segment is now more well known as Norah Jones' father. Sitar was very much coming into fashion in...

Maybe you two should exchange cell numbers.

How about for the sake of sheer entertainment value? A limited flame war between posters can be an entertaining read. As opposed to an extremely boring heavily moderated, someone wrotesomething that wasn't entirely PC so the entire thread disappears forever into internet oblivion.

Super, if it is directed towards you, wouldn't it be an ad homonem attack? ;o) Unfortunately, personal attacks are part and parcel of internet message boards. This board is fairly tame by comparison to others due to the moderators. Unfortunately, the anonymous nature of this format leads to a...

., pl. dedans (-däN', -däNz'). A screened gallery for spectators at the service end of a court-tennis court. The spectators at a court-tennis match.[French, from dedans, inside, from Old French dedenz : de, of, from (from Latin dē; see de–) + denz, within (from Late Latin deintus, from within...

Hey Mucat, if you find a link to an online PDF for Match Play and the Spin of the Ball, please post it. Big Bill's description of an American Twist sounds exactly like my kicker.

Andy Boyo, Dungan (sic) here. To reiterate, a reverse slice (or reverse twist as it was once called), is not the same as a slice serve or a kick/American twist serve, it is an entirely different animal. The book the OP mentioned that referenced the reverse twist serve was published...

It is more commonly called the reverse slice. Reverse twist is an old term. This serve is almost never used in haute tennis, but perfectly okay to use in a casual, recreational match as a junk ball. I don't recall ever seeing it used in a modern pro match but maybe someone has used it in the...

The term twist was once used in the manner in which we use the termspin now. In Tilden's era and before, a twist serve was a spin serve. Twist was clearly synonymous with spin as demonstrated by Tilden's usage of the term in his book The Art of Lawn Tennis. The American Twist serve is a...

$630 for a new Austrian 280 did seem a bit much. The buyer must have really wanted the racket to bid it up so high. ( One always wonders how much shill bidding takes place given the anonymous bidding on the bay now. That could have been a driving factor. ) I thought the racket would probably...

Olli, at least in that case, one will be in full possession of one's faculties when the lung and/or esophageal cancer kicks in. Sobad, my recollection of tofu (tofu flashbacks? is that it is not so much tasteless, but rather, it simply tastes bad. Some people really like the stuff but not my...