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| Four Seasons Hemet Herald | April 2016 | 28 Tennis Friends Several players from Four Seasons played in the Solera Del Webb tournament in March. In the Men's doubles on Saturday, Earle Irvine/Dennis Jorgenson, John Tarabocia, Mike McConnell/Chuck Sims competed against doubles teams from around the area. Chuck and Mike won second place by three points. The trophy says it all: "You Almost Won." In the women's doubles event our teams were Tracy Trousset/ Hortensia Roesler, Trish Egan/Barb Jorgenson, Carol Ferber/Mary Ellen Brogdon, with Ann Alexander/Toshiko Arnot taking first place, and Victoria Danner/Cheryl Robinson sharing second place with another team from the area. Chuckie asks: How do you know what comes next? An article in the Press Enterprise recently highlighted a training system that Major League Baseball is using to enhance the ability of a hitter to sense what pitch is being thrown to them. Neuroscout. Up until now hitters relied on a number of historical factors. For example: What is the pitcher's strength, strategy, weakness? What can the pitcher not do? What is the hitter looking for, trying to do? What is the situation (inning, score, count, etc.)? So, what do you look for? Neuroscout shows simulated images repetively until a feel is gained by the hitter as to what is coming. For example a 106 mile per hour ball being thrown at his head. What is used in tennis? Well, lets look at this aspect. Since a receiver is on offense and a server is on defense, receiving with expectation can be an advantage. Now think about this concept for a moment. What could possibly be the advantage to a receiver if they have no thought of what the server might do? Answer: None. So, pros look at some of the same things that hitters do. Situation: (love-40 or 40-love or second serve). Historical capability. Looking for a particular serve. Prepare a plan for it. Visualize what you expect. After all it's a game. Like chess, checkers, chess, shoots and ladders, bowling etc. All have strategies to create advantage. Try it, you might like it. Come join us on a court. If you have any other questions you can ask Chuck Sims or you can just drop in to any of our events or check with Tracy Trousset or Trish Egan. Furthermore, several of our members are familiar with tennis around the SoCal area. Cheryl Robinson and Victoria Danner shared second place with Karen Mackie and Tracie First place winners Tomiko Arnot and Ann Alexander with David Bickmore, Invitational Chairman Chuck Sims and Mike McConnell got second place at the Del Webb tourney Pickleball We have a few snow birds that have returned to enjoy our great weather and to play pickle-ball. Welcome back Rey Hu from Canada and Ron & Tina Turnquist from Minnesota. Come on down just once and try pickleball and we know you will be hooked. We play on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 8 am. For those who work, we have changed our Wednesday evening to Thursday evenings, at 6 pm. I'll start adding a little history about pickleball, and how it got its name, in each issue of the Herald until we get to the end. It is fun and interesting! "The mini-tennis game called pickleball was created during the summer of 1965 on Bainbridge Island — a short ferry ride from Seattle, WA. The original purpose of the game was to provide a sport for the entire family, according to co-inventors U.S. Congressman Joel Pritchard, William Bell, and Barney McCallum." Be sure to catch next months' issue when we find out how pickleball got its name.