In the five years that I have been organizing recreational doubles tennis, I have heard many complaints from new players who say that they are not getting as much of a workout as they had hoped for. My response is always the same: if you’re not sweating, you’re doing it wrong. Here are four things [...]

Mark from Wisconsin writes: “Every year for the past three years, I have gone to a free NTRP assessment clinic at the tennis club in my hometown. I feel that I am getting better, but every year I get exactly the same rating — 3.0. What do I have to do to receive a rating [...]

The National Tennis Rating Program (NTRP) is the official system for determining the levels of competition for USTA Leagues. However, it is widely used outside of the USTA as one way of predicting how players who are unknown to each other will match up against each other. The rating levels begin at 1.0 and go [...]