On 2026 I ordered my Acemate Tennis AI robot, awaiting for its arrival. I have been playing tennis
since 1983. My uncle, my mom's younger brother who lives in Vancouver, was
a middle-school physical-education teacher who taught me tennis. He
played professional soft-tennis in Asia a generation ago. I used to play
tennis at Houston local tennis clubs including Club Westside, Fondren Tennis, Bay Area Tennis and Giammalva racquet club. Back then Rice men's tennis coach Larry Turville and women's tennis coach Paul Blackenship were good mentors and friends of mine. I used to play local
tournaments, and HTA, USTA leagues on men's team and on mixed team.
My best tennis record was 1996 Houston Indoor Tennis Club Labor-day mixed doubles 3-days tournament, me
and Ms. C. Craft
won the tournament championship.Everybody needs a good partner,
Candice grew up in Bay City and started playing tennis from young age. In mixed doubles, the woman has to hold the ground and find opportunity to attack the balls. The final is really a 4.0+ below 4.5- mixed double final. Today, I still play recreational 4.0+ tennis. I played with Justin Hennin's older model racquet Wilson nCode nTour 95. My most favorite racket was Prince ThunderLite Longbody. It is so light and has so much precision control, but is easy to get injury due to its lightweight-ness. (I can write a full page about how to choose a tennis racket by specs or demo.) I string my own and my wife's racquets. It is a lot cheaper using reel of string and you can change it anytime. The reason the drop-weight stringing machine is not accurate is NOT because torque theory is incorrect, torque theory is correct and can be DIY measured. It is because you cannot drop weight to horizontal 0 degree accurately every time. Especially at low tension, the perturbation that drop-angle introduces is huge because the lever is very small. I used my knowledge in
physics to play tennis, for example, the height of
the toss should be zero velocity at the highest point where you can reach with a leap off ground, i.e. when the ball is hit. This allows full transfer of body weight into serve power. Another example, the first server should be
into the corner (forehand or backhand),
the second server could be staight into receiver's body as a jammer. (The main reason is to prevent receiver running around attacks the weaker second serve, and avoid to serve out of sideline.) The probabilily winning is
higher at this strategy. Of course, you should mix it up from time to
time to confuse the opponents. If you play any balls you want to see the between
legs shot of the year 2009 by Mistro Roger Federer. Now 2020 recent years, I still play tennis, mostly singles, sometimes doubles. I am actually a better doubles player like Heish, su-wei. I own a ball machine and play extended-length racquet and polyester string such as Volkl Cyclone Tour, Babolat RPM, and Gosen. Lately 2025 I play Wilson Blade 104 v8 with Luxilon Element 1.25mm, sometimes hybrid with Signum Pro Yellow Jacket or Isospeed Baseline Control. Prior racquet was Head Speed XT Pro Rev. I also do other exercises such as swimming, elliptical, marshall art, with healthy time-restricted eating I designed.