Federer and His Famous Bottle Trick

I'm going to abstain from saying what I think right now. But I'm curious if you believe this is real. Email me at stjotennis@stjosephtennisclub.com.

U.S. OPEN TIME 2010

I kind of got out of the groove on posting during the summer...I'll try and do better. Please feel free to help me with this page. Comments, questions, or helpful tips would be appreciated - even good clean tennis jokes would be great! Just Email at stjotennis@stjosephtennisclub.com, my name is Garth and I do the webpage design for the St. Joseph Tennis Club here in St. Joseph, Missouri. This page is separate from that page. However, I do link to this page from the tennis club page. I'm trying to use this page simply to learn more about tennis and to get to know other tennis players anywhere in the world that would like to contact me.

Thanks for viewing this page and I hope to hear from you soon and I hope that you are enjoying the U.S. Tennis Open as much as I am.

Here's a couple of questions to get things started. Why are there such significantly different rules for men's and women's pro tennis? Examples: Women can ask for coaching between sets and they also have what seems to be a reasonable practice for extreme heat like they're experiencing at the U.S. Open [after the 2nd set they can have a 10 minute cool down]. The Men's side don't have either one of these rules; do you think they should? Just curious.

Head Racquet Review

Hope you find this information useful. If you have a question or a comment about any of the information on this page please let me know. Or if you know some information that you think would be useful to other players I would be glad to post that here as well.

YOUR GAME IS ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR 2ND SERVE!

My tennis instructor has made the above comment to me many times and he's not the first person I've heard make that statement. I'm sure if you've been taking lessons or playing tennis for very long your coach or instructor has made that same comment to you as well.

The reason I'm bringing this up is because I just got through watching the Family Circle Cup Final and Samantha Stosur played like a female version of Rafael Nadal. Stosur's match with Vera Zvonareva was amazing [I felt sorry for Vera Zvonareva because Stosur was on her game and simply unbeatable].

During this match Cliff Drysdale wanted to point out Sam Stosur excellent 2nd serve and ask the production crew to show her second serve in slow-motion and he explained in his day this serve was called the American Twist. Pam Shriver was completely shocked by this second serve because the serve finishes on the server's right [of course if you're a right hander] verses on the server's left as the first serve ends - Pam acted like she had never seen such a thing. However, that's exactly what my tennis instructor has been trying to teach me for the past 20 years [I'm a slow learner, but that's another story]; I was surprised that she had never seen such a serve, so I've placed a couple of examples below of this serve.

The first video I placed is an instruction video and the second video is a player actually using this second serve in a match. I hope you enjoy.

If you have any question or opinions you would like to share please let me know I would be very glad to hear from you. My email address is: stjotennis@stjosephtennisclub.com.. Hope to hear from you soon!!!!

Here's a good explanation and example of the 2nd serve

Good 2nd Serve Example

This video just shows a young man's second serve - it doesn't give any explanation. But I thought it was a good example of ending your serve on the right hand side.

Tennis Strategy -- Shrinking the Court