Abdominal Muscle Strain (pull)

 Here is a great article on abdominal muscle strain and recovery technique.  This usually occurs from serving with out warm up.

http://www.stms.nl/download/AbdominalMuscleStrain.pdf

Tons of free high quality Tennis instruction video

I bumped into this site and found majority of these videos very useful. These site has around 60 free video clips on Tennis instruction.

http://www.tennis.com/yourgame/instructionvideos/index.aspx

Basic Forehand Volley

Volley is the most important shot when approaching the net and net play. Here are 2 demo videos on forehand volley.

The first video best describes the process. Other videos below built upon it.



Tennis:
How To Master The Forehand Volley

What happened to US Open TV coverage?

Short Ans: Based on my understanding, USA Network did not renew its TV Coverage rights ($22 million), thus ESPN bought the broadcast rights to US Open.

However since NASCAR / College Football are more popular ESPN decided not air the games during weekend. To fill in the gaps USTA (USOpen.org) and The Tennis Channel were showing those games.

The issue is that not everybody can afford Cable/Dish. Other cable providers are packaging The Tennis Channel for additional fee ($3.95 ~ $8.95).

If you feel ESPN / CBS would make money by broadcasting The US Open then feel free to contact them.

ESPN : http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?page=contact/index

CBS Sports: http://www.cbssports.com/info/about/contact_us