Tennis Club News
Saturday, June8, 2019
" Eight wild-boars roasted whole at a breakfast, and
but twelve persons there; is this true?"
Mecaenas
Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 2]
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Welcome to one of our new Pros, Frank Butera
Frank will be starting out next week with three clinics on Tuesday, June 11th:
* 3.0-3.5 Clinic from 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
* Intermediate Clinic from 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Fast paced instruction will focus on footwork, doubles play, stroke development and strategy.
* Cardio Tennis from 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Intermediate-advanced, no instruction, fast paced and there will be some fun aerobic games.
Only 8 players/2 courts in each clinic so sign up quickly. Go to the CTC website then Reserve A Court/Camps And Clinics
Email: fratera.tennis@gmail.com. 617-596-1434
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Breakfast of Champions: the club will host its first French Open Men's Finals Breakfast tomorrow starting at 9:00 a.m. Come watch the Men's Finals on the club's big tv. We will offer pastries (from La Patisserie), fruit, yogurt, coffee, and, and mimosas. No sign-up is required.
And let us welcome another pro to the club:
Mia Wallace
Mia currently plays tennis for Boston University after previously playing for Elon University in North Carolina. Before college, she competed for Arlington High School and was a two-time All-Scholastic selection (Boston Globe and Boston Herald), winner of the North State Individual Singles title, and was a Massachusetts Singles State finalist as a senior in 2017. She completed her senior year with an undefeated high school season and was named the Boston Globe Player of the Year for her efforts.
A two-time Middlesex League MVP and All-Star. She frequently played USTA tournaments as a junior player, with one of her biggest wins as the champion of the New England Clay Court Championships. She previously taught at Manchester Athletic Club in Manchester MA.
Next week Mia will be conducting clinics on Monday and Wednesday mornings:
Monday, June 10th: 10:30am-12:00pm "Tennis Fundamentals"
Wednesday, June 12th: 10:30am-12:00pm "Doubles Strategy"
To sign up go to the CTC website, click on "Reserve A Court", then "Camps & Clinics" and you'll see the links to sign up on.
We also have a new reservation system which we hope members will just love. It seems fairly intuitive. We are having folks calling to praise the new system and other folks calling to, um, not praise. Please praise.
Here's a list of the opening dates for the last few years:
- 4-25-09
- 5-4-10
- 4-28-11
- 4-19-12
- 4-28-13
- 5-8-14
- 5-15-15
- 4-27-16
- 5-10-17
- 5-6-18
- 5-18-19
The website has a tradition of blurbing books written by members. Let's try a new feature: club artists with current or upcoming shows.
We invite all club artists to send us info or blurbs on their shows.
A call for contributors: We need some on-the-spot correspondents. Please send us opinions or comments or jokes or observations or pleas. Or stories.
Some links of interest:
Rogers Cup
ATP World Tour
WTA Tennis
Craig Lambert wrote a must-read article for Harvard Magazine about Bruce Wright's take on the 'high set' stance and movement in tennis. Take a look: High Set The article is accompanied by a separate video demonstrating the technique. High Set Video Thanks, Craig, for sending this nifty technical riff along to us.
The book? Membership for the coming year hasn't been settled, so the book will be a while in the making. In the meantime, the website will be updated as data dribbles in.
We are going to try out a new feature on the newspage. Let's call it The Book Blurb. The Blurb will note books not necessarily about tennis, but authored by CTC members. So, if you members have recently, or maybe not so recently, written a book that you'd like blurbed, please let us know.
Let's start with:
"The fundamental question of information philosophy is cosmological and ultimately metaphysical. What is the process that creates information structures in the universe?" Heady stuff, no?Well, the club's own Bob Doyle who works much magic here behind the scenes tackled this little issue in his book, Free Will: The Scandal in Philosophy. And the club's own Craig Lambert wrote a nifty, readable article for Harvard Magazine on Bob and his place in the free will issue. Take a look at Craig's article,
Two Steps to Free Will.
In the midst of renovating garages and ruling vast sectors of cyberspace, Bob Doyle wrote a bit of a magnum opus:
Free Will: The Scandal in Philosophy by Bob Doyle. "The fundamental question of information philosophy is cosmological and ultimately metaphysical. What is the process that creates information structures in the universe?"
We have a new book by a club member, Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports, by club member, Susan Ware. The book is:
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Sports Book.
We have some new books from club member, Julie Baer:
Love Me Later
Julie Baer presents us with a unique book. Her fantastic artwork depicts nature and people in a special way. -- Bookreviewcafe.com
I Only Like What I Like
"CHILDREN BEWARE –will have you trying the untried, 'cause it's FUN! The collages fill you up to the eyeballs."
Take a look at: William P. Homans, Jr., A Life in Court, by Mark S. Brodin. Bill Homans was a long time member of the club with "a storied legal career." A lot of folks at the club knew and liked Bill. He could tell a story or two, couldn't he?
We want to mention New Classic American Houses, a book by Dan Cooper about the architecture of Albert, Righter, and our own John Tittmann. "New Classic American Houses is an architectural page-turner brimming with creative interpretations of traditional forms."
Hot off the presses, a new book by Faith Moore, Celebrating a Life, Planning Memorial Services and Other Creative Remembrances. "Celebrating a Life" provides the ideas, inspiration, and how-to advice needed for creating a meaningful memorial service. Light-hearted but sensitive, this thoughtful guide covers it all."
While We Were Sleeping by David Hemenway.
"This book powerfully illuminates how public health works with more than sixty success stories drawn from the area of injury and violence prevention."
The Parents We Mean To Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development by Rick Weissbourd.
The New Yorker review said, "In this ardent and persuasive inquiry, Weissbourd, a Harvard psychologist, warns that 'happiness-besotted' parents do children a disservice by emphasizing personal fulfillment over empathy."
Some useful links:
Here's a link to the espn site, with pro ranking.
And a club member (let's call him Sol) suggested a link to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I. The site is rich.
"On the court, tennis players exchange not only ground strokes but lots of information. It's a richly interactive sport, both verbally and non-verbally. If players communicate clearly, simply, and consistently, the game will proceed more quickly, and with less fuss and misunderstanding. Here are a few guidelines that can make the game more fun, friendly, and fair for all...."
We've had some requests to run Craig Lambert's piece, sampled above, on Tennis Communication. (We'd better leave this link up on the newspage permanently.)
The Yearbook
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