24  April, 2020By Peter Keiser Paddle Profiles The 2020 Nationals had finished. Now it was time for the rest of us to get back on the courts, to play within our own circles, our own tournaments, to move forward holding for awhile at least, the memories of amazing...

  20   SEPTEMBER, 2018 By Peter Keiser Paddle Profiles Every club, county, region has one; the last player anyone wants to face if he or she is intent on advancing in a tournament or playing in a league match. We’re not talking about pros, here. We’re...

26October, 2016By Peter KeiserPaddle ProfilesDrew Broderick has a deep- seated belief in his ability to improve as a platform tennis player. He learned a valuable lesson about the possibilities and techniques of getting better from his days as a successful tennis...

23 February, 2016 By Peter Keiser Paddle Profiles As the 2016 Nationals approach, there is broad based and penetrating analysis regarding the strategy and tactics of winning paddle tennis’ premiere tournament. It makes sense that this would be the case. But to anybody...

23 January, 2016 By Peter Keiser Paddle Profiles Forty-two years ago, Herb Fitz Gibbon and John Beck, a pair of large, agile Princeton graduates, blasted their way to the 1974 Nationals Championship held at the Fox Meadow Tennis Club in Scarsdale, NY. Featuring heavy...

12november, 2015By Peter KeiserPaddle ProfilesIt stands to reason that Dan Zahler would approach and assess the human body as a machine. After all, he comes from a family of mechanical engineers. “I see the body as a machine,” he says. “I can see exactly when things...