Final match of the Summer League – 14th August 2017 My first and only home match of the Summer League at my club, the Highworth Tennis Club. Thankfully, this was always going to be my easiest match of the league, my opponent had lost every match and so I was going into this match expecting […]
6th August 2017 – Wanborough Tennis Club, already I had a bad experience on these courts due to the poor protection from wind that effected my hearing aid with lots of static white noise. I should have not agreed to playing at Wanborough, and a decision that would lose me my first singles match of […]
Match 4: 5th August 2017 Match Venue – David Lloyd Swindon – This has now become my favourite place to play tennis, the facilities are great! The carpet surface is fast and with my spin game, especially with my serve made the ball skid, pushing the ball further away from my opponent. I took to […]
Match 3: 2nd July 2017 Match number 3, I’ve now started clocking up 18hrs of tennis a week, I’ve started wearing compression tights and compression socks from X-Bionic who sponsored me during my days as a professional ultra endurance athlete. playing so many hours on hard courts is causing a few aches, and I’m starting […]
After a long winter of getting back on top of my game, I also decided to join the Highworth Tennis Club Committee in view to help promote the club and increase its membership. My game improves due to getting some group coaching sessions, I’m now playing about 10hrs of tennis per week. Februry brings back […]
Welcome to my second Tennis Journey Blog, so I got back into tennis after 16yrs of not touching a racket demanding I play as good as I did in my 20s!!! Sadly this wasn’t to be, I and our club couch could see I had the technique still there, but the consistency wasn’t there, I […]
At the age of 8yrs I found Tennis, a sport that would be my first loved sport, even though later in life I would compete as a professional ultra endurance athlete. It was 1982, I had been watching the likes of Bjorn Borg, Jimmy Connors, John MacEnro for a while and I had fallen in love […]
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