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Just in the nick of time, here are our women’s picks. WOMEN’S PICKS Chris Fav: Venus Williams. Don’t you worry about her 2nd round loss to Kateryna Bondarenko at the Rogers Cup, Venus will be ready to play at Flushing Meadows. Seems like Venus plays like Venus only during Major championships. Odds: 4-1 DH: Kim [...]

The US Open is upon us (Starts Monday), and that means one thing and one thing only, it’s TW Office Pool time! OK, so it might mean more than one thing. Following the same format we used for the Wimbledon pool, each person takes a favorite and a dark horse. Winner will, of course get [...]

When I think back to the early days of my tennis playing career, if one is generous enough to consider it such, I remember being none too thrilled with the fashion options. My high school days were BCS (before built-in compression shorts). One year in high school, part of my uniform was a navy wrap [...]

If you read our racquet reviews on Tennis Warehouse, then you may have gotten a taste for my love of polys. With that in mind, you can get an idea of how much fun this playtest was for me. I strung this string in my Volkl Power Bridge 10 Mids at 55lbs. I usually string [...]

Prepare, balance, and relax. Those were the inspirational words of Bob Hansen that became the foundation of the game of tennis during my stay at the adult Nike Tennis Camp in Santa Cruz, California. Just to give you an insight of the coaching quality this camp offered, Director Bob Hansen is the creator of the [...]

I’m itching to get out to play. It’s only been a few days, but just doing gym workouts is boring. Recently, I made a rookie error. I used my hand instead of the racquet to block the ball. Mistake of painful proportions. My finger swelled, didn’t want to bend or straighten and turned a lovely [...]

Three weeks into this tennis lesson thing and I feel like I have hit a wall, or should I say, hit the net? Armed with the Babolat AeroPro Drive Cortex I went into the lesson with confidence. I was in a great mood and ready to play the best tennis of my life. Unfortunately, this [...]

Tennis needs to get loud. Tennis needs a shot of adrenaline. If tennis is going to grow as a sport, it needs to become more fan friendly and appeal to the general public. It’s time to bring in a bit of the NFL, NBA and MLB into tennis. As I watched the quarterfinals match up [...]

I took another exciting trip down to the LA Open to watch the semi-final match between Sam Querrey and Tommy Haas, and Legends match between Jim Courier and Michael Chang. Querrey had an entourage of fans in the stands that outnumbered the cheers for Haas. The most noticeable of fans were a group of topless [...]