AJ Chabria and Craig Bell with guests Marcos Del Pilar + Kate Boss, Orlando, Florida
May 10, 2026

AJ Chabria and Craig Bell with guest Otis Sader, Houston,
Texas
May 17, 2026

AJ Chabria and Craig Bell with guest Mark Faber, Toledo, Ohio
May 24, 2026

AJ Chabria and Craig Bell with guest Chris Langdon
May 31, 2026

• No. 282 Marcus Daniell Interview: Doubles Advice, Career Reflections, and Effective Giving with High Impact Athletes

• No. 283 Nicole Melichar-Martinez: Warmup & Practice Routines, On-Court Smiling, Clay Season, & Food Rec

• No. 284 Mental Toughness, Strategies for Nervous Players, & Misconceptions with Greg Kusnierz

Aaron Rusnak: Leadership isn't a title-it's showing up for your people….

Good Day Tennis Community,
This past Friday was a meaningful one. I had the opportunity to drive up and spend time with my good friend Marcos Del Pilar, alongside an incredible group of coaches participating in the RSPA Padel Certification at Club Pickle and Padel.

Read the full story and be inspired.

• From Courts to Ironmans: Luis Miranda’s Story of Growth, Grit, and New Beginnings (39 min)

• Jeff Greenwald: Mental Coach, Author, Former ATP Player (33 min)

• Mark Weil: Academy Coach from the Weil Academy (40 min)

• Tennis Fest Podcast with Guest Speakers Joel Myers, Roberto Ancira, and Matt Previdi (49 min)

Yev Supeko: Too often in racquets, we build for what’s trending and not for what will last. Pickleball stable and still growing. Padel is emerging.
Tennis remains the foundation. The pressure to move fast is real, but speed without clarity leads to space conflicts, noise challenges, and facilities that don’t evolve with the membership.

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• Building LA’s Premier Padel Club | Steve Shpilsky, Los Angeles Padel Club Founder (47 min)

• Is Tennis Ready for Its Topgolf Era? Tyler Kelly, Tennis Social CEO + Founder (32 min)

• How Tennis, Pickleball & Padel Thrive Together. Ryan Redondo, CEO, Barnes Tennis Center
  (47 min)

Rob Norris: I spend a lot of time inside tennis clubs and coaching businesses, and one thing stands out quite quickly.

The numbers often do not match the activity. On the surface, everything can look good. Courts are full, sessions are running, coaches are busy, there is demand. From the outside, it looks like things are working. But when you sit down and actually go through it properly, the revenue and profit are not where they should be.

Read the full story and be inspired.

• Gain Access to the World’s Top Coaches ft Peter Clark (53 min)

• A Unique Tennis Pathway ft Reese Brantmeier (45 min)

• Beyond X’s and O’s ft Tony Minnis (49 min)

• The Little Mo Pathway ft Lynn & Michael Arage (1 hr 14 min)

• Junior Tennis is On the RISE ft Jeremy Saline (45 min)

• Winning Parents ft Dr. Liya Jacob, Ellie-Rose Griffiths, & Chris Johnson (55 min)

• It’s All in Your Head ft Josh Burger (54 min)

• Should Our Elite Jr Tournaments Play a TB or Full 3rd Set ft Todd Widom (44 min)

• Our Family’s Tennis Journey ft Greg Gilbert (59 min)

• Find a Court Anytime, Anywhere with CourtsApp ft Daren Hornig (27 min)

• What is the Role of the College Coach ft Rod Ray (50 min)

• Protect Your Child with BUNKR ft Hannah Keeling (30 min)

• The Inner Way of Tennis ft Randall Scott (53 min)

• The Latest on College Recruiting ft Madison Harrison & Natalie Suk 
  (40 min)

• The International Player Dilemma ft Mikkel Bjerk-Andresen (48 min)

• For the Parents: Working on Your Mental Game ft Brian Lomax (52 min)

• Taking a Closer Look at the State of Junior Tennis ft Joel Drucker (42 min)

Samuel Weinstein: Passion to Profession: My Journey and Some Lessons Along the Way.

I have had some time to reflect on my journey in the racquets industry so far: a rainy day allowed me some time to write it all out. From sweeping courts and cleaning the clubhouse of my neighborhood tennis club to leading as the Head Racquets Professional of an incredible club, it has been quite the journey. Could I have imagined that one of my favorite passions, Tennis, combined with one of my other passions, providing excellence and superior service to people, would end up being my profession? Not in a million years!

Read the full story and be inspired.

Geoffrey Jagdfeld: Why RSPA Conferences Matter: A 40-Year Perspective on Investing in Your Career.

After more than 40 years in the racquet sports industry, I can say with absolute certainty that some of the most important decisions I’ve made had nothing to do with a forehand grip, a drill progression, or even a business plan.

They had to do with showing up.

Showing up at my local, divisional, and national conferences through the RSPA—formerly the USPTA—has shaped my career in ways that are hard to fully quantify, but impossible to ignore.

Read the full story and be inspired.

• Building the World's Biggest Pickleball Event | Ben Weinberger from the US Open Pickleball (28 min)

• Starting the Wheelchair Pickleball Movement. Pickleball Instructor Robert Doyle on Gold Medals, Second Chances, and What Clubs Need to Know (36 min)

• ​​Bounceback Pickle Offers New Ways to Recycle. Recycling Pickleballs Into New Ones | The Bounce Back Story with Dillon Rosenthal (23 min)

SportsEdTV

The Blog: The Modern Tennis Club: An Endangered Species? (Part 2)

Author: Rich Neher
Read Time: 12 mins

The High-Value Insight: Traditional tennis clubs are not failing because people have stopped loving the game.

In fact, participation in tennis, pickleball, and padel continues to grow globally.

The problem is economic.

Many clubs are still occupying prime real estate as if it were still 1985.

To survive the next generation, clubs will likely need to become:

• Denser

• Smarter

• More diversified

• More technologically integrated

• More community-driven

The clubs that survive the land crisis will probably not be the ones that fought developers.

They may be the ones developers chose to build around.
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Victor Cui: Pickleball has a universal language. It’s called DUPR.

Everyone talks about the explosive growth of pickleball. But if you really want to understand where the sport is going — not just where it’s been — pay attention to the infrastructure being built underneath it.
DUPR is that infrastructure.

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Fernando Segal: Well done, Charles Allen.

Lawn Tennis patent was approved in February 24th, 1874. It means actually, 152 years of Tennis existence since Major Walter Clopton Wingfield made his move to bring this new game like an innovation. Since that time, our sport grown under different waves of innovations and proper evolution.

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Let Players Book Courts Directly from Google — Now Available with CourtReserve

That means every player who finds your club’s listing on Google Search & Maps can now book with you on the spot. Once enabled, a “Book online” button will appear on your profile, turning casual searchers into confirmed bookings the moment the impulse to play strikes. No website to navigate, account to create, or membership required.

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The Future of Pickleball & Tennis Club Email Marketing, New and Improved in CourtReserve

For many clubs, email marketing has never fully lived inside their core system. Lists get exported, campaigns get built in separate tools, and by the time an email goes out, there’s always some uncertainty about whether the audience is current.

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The Five-Minute Move That Outperforms Most Racquet Club Marketing Budgets

Most racquet and paddle club operators assume their Google Business Profile is doing its job. It appears in search, has photos, and possibly a few reviews. Good enough, right?

Here’s what it’s missing: a way to book.

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10 Features for Complex Pickleball Court Scheduling

Not all pickleball court reservation software is built the same. If your facility runs leagues, enforces prime-time rules, manages multiple membership tiers, or juggles open play alongside structured programming, you already know that basic booking tools fall short. Missed reservations, scheduling conflicts, and underutilized courts are symptoms of software that wasn’t designed for the complexity your operation demands.

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Scott McCulloch: After returning from this years Racquets Summit and taking a day to reflect, I keep coming back to the same feeling,

My cup is full.

Not because of what we launched or what we accomplished, but because of what I had the chance to witness.

I watched a team show up for each other in a way that made me genuinely grateful. People leaned in, challenged and supported one another, and raised the standard together.

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Mike Knowles: The U.S. Racquet Sports Market Looks Different When You See the Global Data.

Sporting Goods Intelligence Europe published their 2026 State of Play on racquet sports last week — tennis, padel, and pickleball. It’s one of the more thorough participation snapshots I’ve come across, drawing on data from the ITF, FIP, SFIA, Playtomic, PwC, and a range of national governing bodies. The full report and the online summary are available by clicking on the link at the bottom and registering for free.

Here's a summary of what the report covers across all three sports — and what I think the U.S. implications are for each.

Read the full story and be inspired.