Pro Tennis

The backhand slice is mostly seen as a defensive shot to win time, change pace, and get back into position. But there are pros that use it as a weapon. Have you been watching the Western and Southern Open? It’s nice to have ATP tennis back and I try to watch as much as time allows through TennisTV. They usually do a solid highlights package per match if you can’t watch the full match. Yesterday I saw a part of the match between Dan Evans and Andrey Rublev. I thought it would be entertaining and I wasn’t wrong. Rublev hits …

Tennis returns! From today you can watch tennis live on the Challenger Tour. There are two tournaments this week. Prague and Todi. I should really write, “Men’s Tennis returns” because the women are already underway from last week with Fiona Ferro winning the WTA Tournament in Palermo. There is also an exciting tournament on the WTA Tour this week called the Top Seed Open in Lexington. Serena Williams was upset yesterday in the quarter-finals by #116-ranked Shelby Rogers so we need to be prepared to see some “strange” results as tennis returns. It will, therefore, be interesting to watch tennis …

I am not sure if you have watched the Ultimate Tennis Showdown by now, but I really enjoy the new format and the production of the event… The Ultimate Tennis Showdown is an exhibition event with a bunch of experimental rule changes. I wrote about it in my first posts about this summer’s tennis exhibitions. You can use cards to serve twice in a row (called “stealing a serve”), your winners can count times three, you can force your opponent to only have one serve (these cards last for two points in a row) and so on. It creates an …