Welcome to Crosscourt Rabbit,
Complete Tennis.
Here is What The Site Offers
Another tennis web site!? There are already a lot of them. They all have something to offer, and some are very good indeed. Why another?
The very proliferation of sites presents a problem: it is impossible to follow all of them. Not only are they numerous, they have grown increasingly prolific, sometimes adding material two or three times a week. One of the objectives of this site will be to bring the best of the other sites to your attention. Thus, the page, “Video Instruction Library,” will link you to videos from other coaches’ websites and YouTube channels. The videos will be categorized by the stroke they address, with an additional category for strategy and tactics.
In other postings I will offer advice of my own. In my twenties I was a USPTA-certified teaching pro and worked for one of the best, George Bacso. I loved it, and even during the decades I went off to practice law I kept playing and studying the game. Now retired, I’ve re-earned my PTA certification and am thrilled to be teaching again.
In 2011 I undertook the challenge of changing from the traditional form I learned as a kid to the radically different modern game. The transition gave me insights invaluable to a teaching pro: the techniques that can change long-standing habits, imprint new muscle memory, and thereby raise your level of play.
And while I want to bring you the best instruction, I also want to contribute something more. There will be pages devoted to the game’s history and to reviews both of tennis books and of other tennis web sites.
Each page will be in the form of a blog. You can add your comments by clicking "Post a Comment" beneath each posting or at the top of the page in the column on the right. You can also subscribe to each blog page by entering your email address in the space provided at the top of the page, and then clicking, "Subscribe."
So, welcome to "Crosscourt Rabbit, Complete Tennis." It is a pleasure to bring it to you.