New York Tennis Magazine

We lost an icon when Jim Loehr recently passed away. I was lucky enough to know Jim and have followed him since the 1970’s when he began working with Tim and Tom Gullikson. Dr. Loehr was the first person to use sports psychology on the professional tennis tour. He was able to get his players to focus on both the mental and physical aspects of playing at the very highest level...

I have written about playing tennis in the wind before. Today, I gave a lesson with 15 mph winds with gusts up to 30 mph. It was also less than 40 degrees when we started and barely got to 50 by the end of the lesson.

This reminded me of some of the things that helped me be successful when I had to play tennis in these conditions.

First, you must really wa...