Hey Tennis Friends!
It’s 2009 Year End Prize Giveaway Awards time!
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– Marcus Tennis
Hey Tennis Friends!
It’s Year End Prize Giveaway time!
I have amassed quite a bag load of tennis souvenirs and memorabilia from my past reports. Since I pick up most of the prizes for you on the final day of the events, and I am usually on the road, logistically it didn’t make sense to hold a contest afterward, until I had a lot of stuff to give away. The holiday season at the end of the year is a great time for giving!
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Contest Rules & Regulations:
On Monday, December 28th, at midnight PST, I will email the trivia question
only to GroundsPass.net subscribers currently registered at that time.
Respond back via email with your answer, your name, and your city/state/country, to be used for promotional purposes, if you win.
The deadline for email response entries will be midnight PST, December 31st, 2009.
Everyone who responds correctly will have their entry put into a hat for a drawing that will be posted next Saturday, January 2nd, 2010.
In addition to the posted video, winners will be notified via email.
International entries are always welcome!
Be sure to share GroundsPass.net with your other Tennis Friends, and I’ll see you next year, with more tennis, . . . outside the lines!
– Marcus Tennis
While I am assembling the details of a special year end prize giveaway contest, please allow me to “Replay the Point” on a tennis tip from this past May:
Hey Tennis Friends!
I know that it sounds like a commercial when I use brand names and model versions, etc., but I feel that it is important to be as specific as possible when recommending something.
For instance, I have tested various brands of cushioned and/or gel-type shoe inserts, but the one that I have found the most durable is the DrScholl’s model mentioned in the following video:
I hope that you enjoyed this tip. If you have a tennis tip and/or trick that you would like to share, email me and I’ll try to make arrangements to feature it on this site!
Be sure to share with your other Tennis Friends, and I’ll see you next time, with more tennis, . . . outside the lines!
– Marcus Tennis
Hey Tennis Friends!
I know that I have mentioned this before, but for all of the new Tennis Friends, I feel I need to explain that sometimes the placement of my MacBook to record the game play video is not always at the best angle. Not only is it difficult to place it out of the way of the action, but it is also a problem seeing the screen in the bright sunlight, and lining up the shot correctly.
Originally I wasn’t scheduled for this, the final match of our season. Our captain called me a couple of days before, and asked if Jaime and I could fill in because of other player’s injuries. Unfortunately, my regular partner, Jaime, already had plans.
Two good things, however, . . . I got to play for my team again, and I got to partner up with Will, who I had played with before on the Tri-Level team earlier this year.
Losing is never fun, but it was a close, competitive match. Given more notice, perhaps Will and I would have been able to schedule some practice time together, and coordinate our team colors. I’m chalking this loss up to the lack of matching outfits . . . 🙂
Our team finished the season 5-3 which put us right in the middle slot out of 9 teams in our area. Had we won our match, we would’ve ended our season in third place, instead of fifth.
It was great to join a different team in my area, and meet a lot of new Tennis Friends. I cannot encourage you enough to get out there, get more active, and meet more people!
I’ll see you next time, with more tennis, . . . outside the lines!
– Marcus Tennis
Hey Tennis Friends!
Earlier this year, I did a report on the grand opening of a new local tennis facility at Andulka Park. One of my Tennis Friends, who I regularly play with, and I decided to enter the 4.0 mixed doubles division of their first annual championship.
The format for mixed doubles was “no ad” scoring, which means that when the score reaches 40-40, or deuce, the next point is the deciding point. For this tournament, the genders had to serve to like genders if a game went to a deciding point. So, if that was the case, then the man serves to the man, or the woman serves to the woman.
During the match play segment of the video, pay close attention to my illustration of “a little too loose” of a grip on my return of serve . . .
As it turns out, our opponents were the team that beat everyone else and won the local public tournament. Losing to the eventual champions made me feel a little better about the loss . . .
I’ll see you next time, with more tennis, . . . outside the lines!
– Marcus Tennis
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