Queens College courts

January 9, 2016 at 7:44 pm · Filed under Tennis

65-30 Kissena Blvd,
Flushing, NY 11367
(718) 997-2771

QC‘s courts are fairly new, rebuilt after the 2009 storm that ravaged the bubble, reopened in 2013. The lighting is better than before but the nets are short both at middle and bottom. Balls 🎾🎾 roam rather freely.

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大肚队长极力拉俺入伍. 一年多没有打队的了 实在是矛盾. 一浪接一浪就是这样[偷笑] 打到不想再打 自然有新人跃跃欲试. 大肚队去年还晋升国家赛[强] 刮目相看😉

My new partner and I won 2:1. Dave has the spinnest serve I’d seen so far but the Bill and I switched side (me taking the left side) and we won the second set.

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Crocheron Park

December 21, 2015 at 1:50 am · Filed under Tennis

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Climbing wall

December 14, 2015 at 3:33 am · Filed under Musing

My first time @ the Space Center

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6-1 and 4-6

December 12, 2015 at 11:30 pm · Filed under Tennis

I didn’t fight hard to force a tie break because I’ve flight to catch. It’s a lovely day for tennis 61 degrees.

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NTC getting a roof

December 12, 2015 at 10:46 pm · Filed under Tennis

The National Tennis Center (Billie Jean King) is adding a roof.

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48 degrees

December 5, 2015 at 11:49 pm · Filed under Tennis

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Jesse Halpern Skate & Tennis

December 4, 2015 at 1:20 am · Filed under Tennis

99 Cutter Mill Road,
Great Neck, NY 11021

This ancient cash register is still functioning. My kids’ first tennis rackets were purchased here.

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4 sets

November 28, 2015 at 12:16 am · Filed under Tennis

Not a good day for me. Lost all. My thighs are painful from the gym – taking Jen’s class. OMG. I need to walk down stairs backward.

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Steffi Graf

November 25, 2015 at 6:44 pm · Filed under Tennis

The current issue of Tennis magazine (the heroes issue) has this picture of her at much younger age. It looks similar to the top in my drawer – shows that I keep junks.

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Letter to My Younger Self

November 23, 2015 at 10:02 pm · Filed under Ice hockey

Brian Trottier

Kid, I’m from the future. I’m you, 50 years from now. You’re looking at me like, “You? The guy with the mustache and all the scars? What the heck happened to me?”

Well …

The disco era. That will inspire the mustache.
18 seasons in the NHL. That will give you the scars.
Now I know you’re thinking — that’s impossible. There’s no way. You’re 10 years old, and you just watched Jean Beliveau lift the Stanley Cup on Hockey Night in Canada on your black and white TV in 1966. It seemed like the broadcast was coming from the moon. It didn’t seem real. You tell your parents you want to be Jean Beliveau, but it’s like you’re saying you want to be Superman.

And you — you’re just kid on a farm in Saskatchewan in the ’60s. Life is so simple. There’s precisely one TV channel. You’ve never even seen a “hockey card.” There’s an actual siren that goes off at 9 p.m. in your tiny town that warns all the kids to go home.

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