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Improve Your Tennis With Better Serve Mechanics

Man about to serve on a tennis court
By Michael Greene, Adult/Junior Development Director, Windward Lake Club For too many recreational players, having a reliable serve is more elusive than winning the lottery....

How To Turn Pre-Match Nerves Into Excitement

Tennis player celebrating hitting a winning shot.
By Rebecca Jameson, Director of 10u Programming, Sceney Tennis at Crooked Creek We all know the feeling: Sweaty palms, elevated heart rate, stomach butterflies… the...

Tremendous Personal Confidence Pays Off

US Open center court at night
By Luke Jensen, French Open Doubles Champion Tennis fans, did you see the amazing US Open? At the beginning of the last major of the...

Good Question: Nov/Dec 2021

Accidental Contact During a point in a recent match, all four players made their way to the net and the point resulted in one reflex...

League News: It Takes A Village

ALTA Junior Challenge Ladder
By Brenda Maddaleni, Junior Challenge Ladder Vice President The 2021 season of the ALTA Junior Challenge Ladder (JCL) is off to a gangbuster start! There...

The User Spectrum of the Ball Machine

Playmate Volley
From the teaching pros to beginners By Matt Levinson, Levinson Athletics As a recreational tennis player, the benefits of using a ball machine are both obvious...

Serving Reaches A Whole New Level

Cobb County School District Police Officer Alex Hicks
By Murphy McCullough, Net News Contributor Throughout its 50-year history, ALTA has provided so much more than tennis to its thousands of members. And for...

Captain’s Corner: Marie Gaffney Cooper

Marie Gaffney Cooper
By Amy Bergin, Net News Contributor Every person who volunteers for the captain role on an ALTA team brings a unique set of skills, abilities,...

It’s Win Win for This Unique, High-Performance Tennis Academy

Marcelo Ferreira
By Emmy Powell, Net News Editor Marietta, Georgia is a far cry from his native Brazil, but Marcelo Ferreira has come a long way to...

The ALTA Foundation: Lending a Charitable Hand

Katrina Adams
By Diana Burger, ALTA Foundation President It seems everyone bid a fond farewell to 2020, in which the pandemic reached far and wide to disrupt...