Category: Tennis
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Squash vs. Tennis: Which is Harder? (A Player’s Perspective)
✏️ Updated: October 20, 2024. This article will help you decide whether to play squash or tennis. When it comes to squash vs. tennis, many people wonder which racquet sport presents a steeper learning curve. As someone who enjoys both, I’ll offer a player’s perspective, focusing on the skills each demands and their relative difficulty.…
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Can Serve-and-Volley Tennis Make a Comeback?
Last month I wrote a blog post titled Serve-and-volley: Shifting from tennis to squash? One of the comments that I received was from Patrice Boies, a former colleague. Patrice played tennis for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas from 1989-1993, winning the MVP award three times. Patrice continues to remain actively involved in tennis, and…
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Serve and Volley of the Squash Kind!
So when was the last time you watched a professional tennis match where the players served and volleyed? No, I am not talking about doubles tennis. It is true that serve and volley as a technique has all but disappeared along with the sliced return of serve. A recent article, written by Kevin Darling for…
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Squash vs Tennis – The interesting debate continues
Earlier this year, I wrote a piece titled “Overheard at Club Meadowvale,” which captured the essence of some passionate discussions among members regarding the superiority of squash vs tennis. As a follow-up, I have added a few more one-liners to the original list. Give it a read. Squash is played with tins, boxes, and lines.…
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Dr. Deji gets it right!
This is an impromptu blog post. Over the past two weeks, there have been many speculations on who will win Wimbledon. While tennis pundits debated between Djokovic and Nadal, Deji, a squash player friend, predicted that Murray would start off well, choke, and lose in four to Federer in the finals. I hate to admit…
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I was wrong to bet against Roger Federer!
In a blog that I wrote the day before the start of Wimbledon, I suggested that Federer appeared to have lost his mojo while Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal were clearly emerging as the two dominant players. After all, they had split nine of the last ten grand slam titles between them. After Nadal made…
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Mixed doubles tennis – Chivalry will not win you matches
Lost in the glamour of the singles matches at the recently ended French Open were some notable winners in the doubles and mixed doubles tennis events. Canada’s own Daniel Nestor and partner Max Mirnyi claimed the men’s doubles title and the number one ranking, beating the Bryan twins Bob and Mike. The seventh-seeded pair of…
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Who will win the French Open, Nike or Uniqlo?
As Novak Djokovic, the top-ranked tennis player in the world, strolls into Roland-Garros for the French Open, tennis aficionados, and bookies alike will be waiting with bated breath to see which one of the three key records will be broken. Will Rafael Nadal become an unprecedented seventh-time winner of the French Open? Or will it be Roger…
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A blue clay court? What’s next, blue grass at Wimbledon?
If you have not been paying attention, you may like to know that the new colour of a clay court is blue! Seeing red? Certainly, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic did. Both have vowed not to return to the Mutua Madrid Open after early exits from the tournament where they played in the finals the…
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A tennis player’s perspective of squash
As part of the ongoing friendly rivalry between tennis players and squash players, here are a few onliners that you may be able to relate to. Here’s a tennis player’s perspective of squash. In tennis, you can see your opponent Tennis players only boast when they are off the court. In tennis, hitting the line…