TeamUSA at BNP Paribas Master’U: Onto the Semis
TeamUSA is flexing its muscle in Grenoble France at the BNP Paribas Master'U. Seeking its 8th championship, the team is off to a solid start, beating Belgium 6-1 in...
TeamUSA: Greg Patton’s Report from the BNP Paribas Master’U
For the past several years, Coach Greg Patton has taken a group of top-performing college players to France to compete against their peers. TeamUSA has come home with the...
Final Fall ITA Singles Rankings by Country
Now that the Fall season is complete for Division I college tennis, I figure this is a good time to update the Rankings by Country list...
Golden Rule: No Tennis Talk Outside the Courts
The following article was written by Coach Todd Widom and reprinted here with his permission. To see more of the article he's written for ParentingAces,...
The Superpower of Compassion
Today marks the 7th anniversary of my first post here at parentingaces.com. It's cause for celebration - sure! - but also cause for reflection.One of my...
A Look at the 2019 Transition Tour & Its Impact
I received the following article from a long-time member of the ParentingAces Community. She put a lot of effort into dissecting and explaining the new ITF Transition Tour and...
Junior Tennis Academies: Friend or Foe?
The Beginning:In 1969 Harry Hopman came to the States and started working with two players set to change the history of tennis. At the Port Washington Tennis Academy in...
When PPR Goes Awry
USTA has been using the Points Per Round (PPR) ranking system for many years, and, for the most part, it works relatively well. At the beginning...
ITA Singles Rankings by Country
Yesterday, the ITA released its first rankings of the 2018-19 academic year. Given all the conversation about how many international versus American players are playing college tennis, I thought...
US Open Musings Day 14
This was a very interesting US Open to say the least! Between the heat, the questionable decisions by various chair umpires throughout the two weeks, and the scoring and...
