The up-and-down regular season concluded last week. The Olympic Resorts tennis A team won over visiting the Four Season Aviara, and the BB team swept the El Camino Country Club at home. Both teams played together as a team!

Betsy Jordan and Jill Farmer led the A team as the team made the playoffs for the first time in conference history with a record of 8-1 / 57.4 points. The A team face the Winner Inland-Stone Ridge County Club in a first round match up in the playoffs on Wednesday, March 22 at 9 a.m.

The BB team have also finished second (3-3 / 32.6 points) in their division but they won’t make the playoffs because the North Country Doubles Conference committee changed the regulations to qualify for the playoffs during this season…However, the BB team played hard, and the captain, Phyllis Whitney, made the team better and got them to play to the best of their ability.

Congratulation on a fantastic season!

Lots of information about tennis racquet grips...I know it's a bit complicated...The grip determines everything? I don't think so, but it's the key to tennis.

I recommend a semi-Western grip for the forehand groundstroke. Its spin potential, flexibility and power potential make it ideal for virtually any surface?including grass. So let me explain how to hold a tennis racquet with a semi-Western grip.

There are various ways to explain how to find a certain grip, but the simplest and most reliable is to use the base knuckle of your index finger as the main reference point. The diagrams for each grip show the bottom view of a racquet handle (where the butt cap is attached), which has four main sides and four narrower bevels between the sides.
Click to see the image #1!

Moving your knuckle one more bevel clockwise (counterclockwise for lefties) from the Eastern forehand grip puts you in the semi-Western grip (right-hander: bevel 2/ left-hander: bevel 3).
Click to see the image #2!

This has become a prevalent grip for power baselines on the pro tours, and many teaching pros encourage their students to use it. However, this has both advantages and disadvantages you have to know?

Plus: The semi-Western allows a player to apply mire topspin to the ball than the Eastern forehand grip, giving the shot greater safety and control, especially on lobs about short angles. Still, you can drive through the ball with this grip to hit a flat drive for winner or passing shot. It also affords a player the option of taking a bigger swing at the ball since the topspin will help keep it in the court. With a strike zone higher and farther out in front of the body than the Eastern fore hand, it's goof for controlling and being aggressive with high shots.

Minus: You can run into trouble returning low balls. Since the grip naturally closes the racquet face, forcing you to swing up from underneath the ball, it can be difficult to return lower shots. This, along with having to make a significant grip change to get to the Continental for a volley, is why so many power baseliners are uncomfortable coming to net?

Anyway, the most important thing we need to know is how to hold the racquet for each different stroke. I hope this tips will allow you to enjoy the game and improve your tennis!