AJ Chabria and Craig Bell with guest Neil Adams, Austin, Texas

AJ Chabria and Craig Bell with guest Mark Lyons, Layton / Salt Lake City area, Utah

AJ Chabria and Craig Bell with guests Ken and Kam DeHart, San Jose, California

AJ Chabria and Craig Bell with guest Pedro Bautista, Draper, Utah

• No. 288 Anna Danilina Interview: Ad Court Returning, Developing Belief, Lessons from Coaches, & Her Sweet Tooth (30 min)
  

• No. 289 The ATP Doubles Debate with Ben Rothenberg: Should They Cut Doubles? (40 min)
  

• No. 290 Reactions to the ATP Plans to Cut Doubles with Dan Kiernan
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• No. 291 Aldila Sutjiadi Interview: Wimbledon Prep, Partner Conversations, Indonesia Tennis, & Her Medical Scare (27 min)
  

• No 292 Wimbledon Champion Coach Calvin Betton on the Title Run, Champions' Dinner, Return Strategy, & ATP Doubles News
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• No 293 DC Open Preview with Owner Mark Ein: Doubles Field, Mic'd Up Players, ATP Costs, & More (22 min)
  

• No 294 AMA: Dropshots, Overheads, Fixing Double Faults, & Developing a 2nd Serve (32 min)

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Dominique Lemperle: Yesterday I had the privilege of being recognized as a nominee for Manager of the 2nd Quarter at Fisher Island Club.

While I wasn’t selected as the recipient, I left the breakfast feeling incredibly grateful.
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Professional Tennis Registry: This weekend marked an important milestone for the future of leadership in racquet sports. The inaugural Women Who Rally Leadership Retreat brought 22 women from around the world and across the racquet sports industry together at Saddlebrook Resort for two days of learning, reflection, collaboration, and meaningful connection.

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• Matt Jones: Talking college tennis, how to create great players and more. (48 min)
  

• John Broderick: Tennis Fest, Umpiring, & Our Wimbledon Predictions
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Andy Whipp: Tim Henman has just said in an interview that the prize money in tennis does not filter down the rankings sufficiently, highlighting how hard tour life can be as a professional tennis player around 200 in the world.

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• Tennis Tip: Want to get better? These 4 words work every time.
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• Leaving Money on the Table? Profit First for Racket Sports  
  (29 min)

Tim Owens: I've had conversations with club owners who knew their weekend court utilization rate down to the decimal but couldn't tell me what a member was worth to them over twelve months.

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• Taking a Look Back: Is Tennis Endangered by the Rise of Pickleball and Padel? - Featuring Mike Barrell
  
  Taking a look back at one of our favorite conversations from the Racquet Fuel Podcast, we’re republishing this episode featuring Kim Bastable and Simon Gale’s engaging discussion with Mike Barrell on the evolving landscape of racquet sports.(36min)

Mike Manzella: Everyone told GMs the answer to the racquets boom was hiring a strong Director. So they did. Then… they stopped.

The program runs, lessons fill, and the members are happy. And racquets stays exactly what it's always been… an amenity.

The smartest GMs I work with made a different call.

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• Today’s College Tennis Landscape & Implications for Recruits ft Danielle McNamara
  

• Inside UTR: Ratings, Recruiting, & Your Player’s Path ft Chase Hodges & Mark Leschly
  

• Where Have All the Leaders Gone ft Jerry Lynch & John O’Sullivan
  

• Building Confidence & Resilience in Jr Players ft Simone Spigner

• Finding a Place for Tennis Parents ft Duey Evans

Karl Hale: I’m really honoured to join the ATP & LALIGA Sports Management MBA as a Tutor and Presenter.

It's so important to share our knowledge with the next generation, who will lead our racquet sports industry.

Over the past 35+ years, I’ve been fortunate to coach athletes, build businesses, lead world-class sporting events, mentor coaches, and work alongside some of the best people in our industry.

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• Episode 3: The Ultimate Mixed Doubles Pickleball Strategy Guide!
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• Episode 4: The $225 MILLION Pickleball Investment Explained | DUPR, AI, MLP & The Future of Pickleball (54min)

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Mike Knowles: If you build it, they will come (only in this scenario).

Mark Kuhn is an Iowa farmer. In 1960, as a kid, he listened to Wimbledon on his grandfather’s shortwave radio and dreamed of playing on grass.

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The Blog: Tennis Rating Systems Explained: NTRP, UTR, and ITF World Tennis Number (WTN)

Author: Fede Boscarino
The High-Value Insight: Why tennis ratings are often misunderstood

Most confusion comes from treating all ratings as if they mean the same thing. In reality, tennis ratings fall into two distinct categories. Some are classification systems designed to organize league play. Others are match-result-based ratings designed to compare players across regions, ages, and competitive environments.

When classification systems are mistaken for performance metrics, or when global ratings are forced into league contexts they were not designed for, mismatches, frustration, and disputes follow.

Understanding intent is the first step to using ratings correctly.
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Kyle LaCroix: Some projects remind you why you love what you do.❤️

This week took me to Boston to begin work on a project that I’m genuinely excited about. While I am not going to share many details just yet, I can say this…

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Philippe Azar: Wimbledon Is the Biggest Marketing Campaign Tennis Never Pays For.

I was vividly reminded of this as I queued at the tournament last Tuesday. I arrived at 4:30am and was 4,911th in line! Nearly 5,000 people had chosen to get up even earlier than me just to get a piece of the action.
Most of those people aren’t even avid tennis fans. Many don’t play the sport. Yet they have heard of Wimbledon.

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==> CourtReserve + Pickleheads: Run Pickleball Leagues With Less Manual Work

CourtReserve now integrates with Pickleheads Ultra, giving clubs one connected way to run pickleball leagues from registration to final standings.

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==> What’s New in CourtReserve July 2026: New Ways to Get Found, Fill Courts, and Grow Revenue

Every racquet and paddle club depends on the same path: a player discovers you, books a court, brings a guest, and checks in. How smoothly those steps connect is what shapes both their experience and your bottom line.

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==> 7 Best Practices for Running a Successful Public Racquet Sports Facility

At a public racquet and paddle facility, you’re competing for every player. Walk-ins, program registrants, court renters. None of them are guaranteed to come back. What keeps them is almost always traceable to a handful of decisions: who your programming is built for, how your pricing is set, and whether your operations can actually hold up under growing demand.

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==> 12 Free Racquet Club Tools: Revenue Calculators, Pricing Planners & Growth Projectors

Court revenue, membership pricing, staffing costs, break-even math — these are the decisions that power your racquet and paddle club. If you’re working through them on gut feel or in a spreadsheet you built yourself and half-trust, you’re not alone. That’s just the reality of running a facility where the operational to-do list never gets shorter.

CourtReserve built 12 free calculators and planners to give you something more reliable to work from. Every tool is grounded in real data from 2,200+ active tennis, pickleball, and padel facilities across three areas: Revenue & Pricing, Operations & Planning, and Growth & Launch.

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The Directors Club-Jarrett Chirico:
Partnership Alert! There are partnerships that simply make sense, and then there are partnerships that have the power to shape an entire industry. Today, with tremendous excitement, the DCA proudly welcomes Off The Glass home as an Official Partner!

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The Directors Club-Michael Jordan: This Independence Day, we’re reminded that some of the greatest achievements in history weren’t accomplished by individuals, they were accomplished by people united by a shared purpose.

In 1776, our Founding Fathers brought together different ideas, different perspectives, and different strengths to build something far greater than any one person could have created alone. Their legacy reminds us that unity is one of the greatest forces for progress.

That same spirit is what inspired the Directors Club of America when we came together in 2022. What began as a vision has grown into an incredible community of racquets leaders who willingly share ideas, celebrate each other’s successes, offer guidance through challenges, and elevate our profession every day.

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(WCRS) Women Coaching Racquet Sports: Disability Awareness Month Spotlight: Dana Hughes, AuD, PLY

(WCRS) Women Coaching Racquet Sports is proud to recognize Dana Hughes, AuD, PLY, a trailblazer whose impact extends far beyond the tennis court.

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