In high school, college, and adult league tennis the rule is that you must play your best players higher in the lineup. This creates the obvious temptation for lesser teams to alter their lineups in order to win the team match.
An alternative to the existing rule is to randomly select players for matches. This method eliminates any stacking potential. It also eliminates intrasquad competitions for placement in the lineup. No more "I should be playing ahead of him" comments.
The downside to this arrangement is that you'll see more uneven matches, when the best player from team A is matched against the worst player from team B. However, when a superior team plays an inferior team, uneven matches are the rule, not the exception. By random assignment of matches we may see a lesser player from the superior team matched against the best player from the inferior team, providing a better match for those players.
I'd like to see some league take a chance on this lineup method.
Friday, May 01, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Idealized Forehand
In the video below I'm trying to keep my right hand moving along a line throughout the swing to contact. The center service line and the center net strap show the line which I'm trying to trace with my hand.
Friday, February 06, 2009
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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