Craig Cignarelli’s Court News
Some coaches sleep in five-star hotels and rely upon tournament-sponsored transportation from white-haired volunteers via Porsche or Mercedes, as their charges contest for major titles.
Oceanic swells thriving and crashing to the West, as the renowned Pacific Coast Highway snakes its way Northward.
Indian Wells Tennis Garden - With its exoskeleton rising up from the sand, the stadium sends echoes of players practicing for the day’s entertainment.
Novak Djokovic and Mardy Fish put on a pro-set full of enough backhand down the line winners that some viewers thought it bore a resemblance to a night at the Laserium.
Richard Spurling is a passionate but soft spoken Swede, who spends his days teaching tennis on Southern California’s hard courts.
Well, clearly she didn’t cheat. The rules specify she can take a medical timeout if there is a medical problem, and the truth is, the poor woman couldn’t breathe.
Southern California is the ginger step-child of U.S. tennis, often breaking with the national rules and developing maverick systems that let its players flourish
As a coach of American juniors and professionals, here are the things I want for Christmas:
As a coach of American juniors and professionals, here are the things I want for Christmas:
As a coach of American juniors and professionals, here are the things I want for Christmas:
A few months back, I was asked to write PRO and CON articles for the Quickstart/TAUT tennis program. Two months ago, 10sballs.com printed the CON article. This is the PRO argument.
“Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.”
I sadly predict no American males will make the second of our homegrown US OPEN. Secretly, I’m rooting for Ryan Harrison to break through, but it’s more of a headline thing than favoritism.
It is difficult to argue against the statement “more competitive tennis results in better competitive tennis players.”
The line between evolution and erosion is often indistinguishable. Roger Federer turns thirty-one today.
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