Third Shot Drop

Pickleball Points: Third Shot Drop Shot into the kitchen spot Some players tell me they feel they are caught in limbo, unable to advance to that next level. I believe I have an answer.  I think we have failed you in teaching the Third Shot Drop. I have written multiple articles on how to hit …

Pickleball and SCORING

Pickleball Points: A Pickle of a Score Recently many people have been introduced to pickleball, and more will soon follow.  You invariably will hear that pickleball scoring is very difficult, and a gentleman at a pickleball clinic recently suggested to me that pickleball should have made scoring more simple like tennis.  I looked at him …

Wimbledon – Behind the scenes…

Behind the Scenes of Wimbledon For two weeks in 2019, July 1 to 14, the world will be watching ‘The Championships, Wimbledon’ from their homes, taverns, tennis clubs, and airports. Most certainly, Sea Colony will have it dialed in at their national award-winning tennis center. Although I do not have recent statistics, a billion television …

The Baron talks Pickleball to hard core tennis crowd

I spoke on a tennis podcast with Gary Plock, a former top tennis player until he blew out his arm some years ago. He is a tennis player's tennis player. We did several tennis podcasts, 62 & 67, earlier this month. He has over seventy podcasts about the period of the tennis boom. No surprise …

We don’t get no respect

I did a very successful double negative once. Tennis was exploding. I had just been with Wilson Sporting for a few months, and imprinted “Wilson, we’re not number one for nothing” on several thousand tee shirts and handed them out to all the top junior tennis players in the country. The kids loved it. English …

Pickleball Points: It’s Tournament Day, Let’s Play

I thought some of you folks might like to learn a little more about pickleball tournaments.  The weather is finally cooperating along the Delaware and Maryland beaches, and the winds have subsided somewhat.  Pickleball is in the air.   Many of the active pickleballers in our area were participating last week in an indoor tournament …

Proud of the Captains of the Coastal Communities Pickleball League

There are so many of you, I gave you a group shout out in my first column this year. Pickleball Points: Proud of our Coastal Point Pickleball Worthies of 2018 Last year, we nominated the top five persons as the 2017 Coastal Point Worthies who we felt had done the most to advance Pickleball in …