These most recent pictures were taken in September of 2013.
The following pictures were taken in September of 2012.
The following pictures were taken in March of 2009 after the snow cleared from the courts.
The following pictures were taken on or after April 25, 2009. We had a preview of summer that weekend.
The following pictures were taken over Memorial Day weekend 2009.
...and here's some of our newer players as of the summer of 2009.
...these pix were taken on Memorial Day weekend 2010.
Here's a little tennis humor...finally something from (4/19/10)
Top Ten Why Tennis is Tougher than Hoops
Caution: Some basketball fans who do not detect a hint of David Letterman in the following may experience
an unsafe rise in blood pressure.
March Madness? Final Four? With all of this fuss about the NCAA Tournament, you'd think it was difficult for
five really big guys to help each other put a nice, fat, slow-moving ball into a basket. Here's my completely
objective, utterly non-partisan list of the top ten reasons why tennis is tougher.
10. If you miss a shot in tennis, you can't just jump up, grab the ball, and try again.
9. When's the last time an NCAA basketball player had to make a shot with the sun in his eyes?
8. When a tennis player is seeing the ball incredibly well, he'll say it seems as big as a grapefruit.
How big is a basketball?
7. When you get tired in tennis, your coach can't just take you out and put someone else in your place.
6. How often does a college basketball player have a perfectly good shot blown out of bounds by the wind?
5. If a basketball player places a shot a little longer than intended, no problem. There's a backboard to make
the ball bounce in. No such luck in tennis.
4. Grand Slam tennis matches commonly go more than three hours. When's the last time you saw a three-hour
basketball game?
3. If you're not making your shots in basketball, you can just pass the ball to someone who is. No such
convenience in tennis.
2. Tennis players have to contend with a net running right across the middle of the court. I'd like to see how
basketball players would cope.
1. Tennis balls move at up to 145 m.p.h.. Basketballs top out at around 30.
A frequently asked question about racquet stringing: Why do the left and right side main strings seem looser than the others?
Answer: It's all a matter of geometry and physics as the photos and diagrams below demonstrate. Even though the side mains
are at the proper tension they are easier to move on some racquets because they are not clamped down tightly on BOTH sides as
are the interior mains.
When only the mains are installed on any racquet they are all easy to move much like the strings of a guitar. When the cross strings are woven
in the resultant zig-zag pattern tends to lock everything up. The distance from the side main strings to the frame determines
how much force will be applied to the outside (frame side) of a main string. The shorter this distance, the tighter the outside mains will feel.
Some racquets are designed with the outside mains close to the frame making the outside mains very difficult to move. Others are designed
with a considerable distance from the outside mains to the frame making it much easier to move the outside mains. (Please note that the colors in
the diagrams below correspond with the colored strings in the photo.)
The same effects hold true for the Cross strings. Distance from the frame will affect how tight or loose they feel.
Parallax ( Parallactic and Anti-Parallactic Viewing Angles )
Definition: Parallax - An apparent "change" in the direction or position of an object, caused by
a change in observational position that provides a new line of sight.
In the series of pictures below, the left side of the line is OUT. A ball is placed
in the OUT zone a short distance away. The first picture was taken at an angle yielding the
most parallax of the pictures taken. The extreme parallactic view would be from the far left.
Each successive picture represents moving around the ball with the camera in a counter-clockwise
direction. Keep in mind that this is a stationary ball. A fast moving ball increases the
the difficulty of making an accurate call! The first 3 pictures were taken at angles yielding
parallax and the ball can be interpreted as hitting the line. The last 2 viewing angles reveal
that there is a space between the ball and the line. These angles of view are anti-parallactic
and the ball is clearly out. This is why there is a line judge (ref) at every line on the court.
Each judge calls a ball out based on lateral ( anti-parallactic view ) displacement of the ball
from the line. There are 7 (sometimes 8) line judges in pro games. 1 judge to sight each side line
at each end of the court ... that makes 4. 1 judge to sight the baseline at each end ... that's 2 more.
1 judge to sight the active service line. That makes 7. If there are 2 service line judges we have 8.
