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I'm a middle-aged woman. I started playing tennis casually with my husband and friends at the start of the pandemic. Thought it was fun and interesting game. Took a few group lessons. Had a decent serve and backhand, struggled with forehand and had little experience at the net. Two years ago, I...

USTA has indicated that the predicted outcome of someone at the top of a level would be 6-0 versus someone at the bottom of the same level. This is not at all surprising to me as someone that has captained about a dozen teams over the past few years. But some people have tried to say that is...

Our club’s 4.0 team won the USTA Men‘s doubles league in the Fall season that ended last week to qualify for SoCal sectionals that will happen in late January. We had 11 players qualified for the playoffs, but I just saw that three players have been bumped up to 4.5 in the year-end ratings that...

I'm a higher-rated 2.5 player (hahaha) and just joined 2 women's leagues, 2.5 and up on 3.0. The captains have very different approaches and I'm curious what you think about them. The 2.5 captain has given everyone an equal amount of playing time, approx. 4 matches for the season. She is...