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Playing tennis Risk level: 1 There’s also little concern with playing tennis, the experts said. Spacing is part of the game, it’s typically outdoors and there’s... only two to four people on a court. While some sports activities cause concern for the health experts, tennis is not one of them. See more

by Julie Eigenmann Only use as a last resort when no other masks are available. It’s not an N95 (let’s leave those for the frontliners) but I guess i...t’s better than nothing. Also, this DOES NOT replace social distancing, staying at home, washing yours hands, and not touching your face. Bandana (or handkerchief or piece of cloth) + hair ties. That’s all you need. So easy! Whoever invented this ... Thank you! ADDITIONAL INFO: you can insert a non-woven cloth in the middle of the mask like wet tissues that are dried to act as a filter. Someone also suggested coffee filters, gauze, air condition filter, or vacuum bag with HEPA filter. Stay safe #masks4all #LAprotects #repost #repost #repost #repost

Valuable information from my amazing doctor and pulmonologist Dr. C Andrew Schroeder regarding COVID....thanks for your selflessness and caring you’re giving to... the covid patients you’re helping. Note below: Doctor at C. Andrew Schroeder, MD. We have learned much about Coronavirus in the last several days. I have now personally cared for countless patients with COVID-19. The number of cases in Los Angeles will likely peak in the coming week, test results will follow a week later to confirm this. Then the rare patients who will fall ill, will do so in the coming weeks. Those needing ICU care will appear one to two weeks after that. Through April and early May, there will be a death toll. The most dangerous time is now through mid-April. Then there will be the aftermath. The month of June will be grizzly. Business will likely restart in earnest July 1. Testing is becoming available through medical centers and private laboratories. We are seeing pop-up drive-through testing centers now. However they are still hard to find online. Please avoid walking into Emergency Departments unless you are truly ill. Prevention The best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to this virus. Stay home and follow current government restrictions of gatherings and movement. Avoid close contact with people who are sick. Avoid shaking hands. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth. Wash your hands with soap and water frequently. Soap and water work better than hand sanitizer. Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue, then throw the tissue in the trash. Make sure you have an extra supply of your medication. Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces using a regular household cleaning spray or wipe. Face masks will not protect you. They are for people who are feeling ill and have to go in public. Symptoms May appear in 2-14 days. Include: Fever, Cough, Shortness of Breath If you have symptoms, pick up the phone and call us. We can use telemedicine if appropriate. Treatment and other Tips Stay hydrated, this will help your mucus stay thin so it can wash away things you inhale. - Exercise, it cleans out your lungs-- literally. - Zinc lozenges protect your respiratory cells. If you feel feverish or develop a cough please suck on them throughout the day. - Avoid anti-inflammatory drugs such as Aleve (naproxen) or Advil (ibuprofen). There is evidence that they could make COVID-19 infection worse. Tylenol is OK. - Hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) is now being used along with azithromycin to treat COVID-19. We will get through this. Prepared by C Andrew Schroeder, MD, 03/20/2020

These are the four common reasons why tennis players choke at different levels. The good information is that you can control ALL of these reasons.

Focus. Concentrate. Stay in the present.

Junior tennis players don’t typically burn-out; you have to first catch on fire to burn-out. Players stop playing because of - frustration factor - they have not done the right fundamental work and reach a point where they practice and play with little or no improvement.

I had to post this a second time because I feel this on every level! I've been thinking a lot about some of the distressing issues that we are facing collecti...vely and I think at times we are made to feel that we champion different causes. But I see commonality. I think whether we are talking about gender inequality or racism or queer rights or indigenous rights or animal rights, we are talking about the fight against injustice. We are talking about the fight against the belief that one nation, one people, one race, one gender or one species has the right to dominate, control, use and exploit one another with impunity. When we use love and compassion as our guiding principles, we can create, develop, and implement systems of change that are beneficial to all sentiment beings and to the universe. -Joaquin Phoenix See more

Tips on winning....

Thiem beat Zverev in four high-quality sets, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6, 7-6. But beyond the competitive result this match portends continued strategic development in the ga...me. Here, neither Thiem nor Zverev were content to simply sit back on the baseline and pound the ball. Both players were looking for the short ball in order to whack an approach shot, get their opponent off balance and come forward to finish with the volley. Of course that is a maximal strategy compared with simply remaining on the baseline and trying to finish with only the groundstrokes, but it’s been a long time In coming. Nadal does this often and well too, and even Djokovic does it occasionally, but in this match it was clearly an essential strategic element. Beyond similar overall strategies, the players’ weapons and methods were somewhat different. Thiem was the harder hitter and had the edge in the groundstroke exchanges, especially with his forehand, but Zverev got great mileage with his devastating first serve. In fact, I’ve never seen a serving exhibition like the one Zverev provided. Of course he is 6’6 with long arms, so he has the large window over the net and the leverage to make the job easier, but he often went for game after game without missing a first serve. More astonishing, these serves were averaging over 130 mph. I know he has a history of double-faulting, but it didn’t happen often in this match since he rarely hit second serves. (In the third set, for example, he missed only two first serves in the first 10 games!) Unfortunately for Zverev, he did double fault to get himself in trouble in the fourth set tie-breaker, but he somewhat made up for it by hitting a 135 mph second-serve ace in the same breaker. On the other hand, Thiem did an excellent job of returning Zverev’s hefty serves basically standing well behind the baseline and just blocking them back, high and soft. Of course this gave Zverev immediate control of the point, but Thiem has a great set of legs, and he usually managed to scramble his way back into the point. And once he got even, his greater velocity of shot gave him control of most points. On his serve, however, Thiem didn’t get as much help from his first one as usual. He missed too many, and Zverev did a good job returning them when they went in. So Thiem had to work hard for almost every game on his serve. But work he did, and, after the first set, he managed to grind his way to a hold game after game. Zverev, by contrast, often was able to hold more comfortably by bombing serves, and, if they came back, making the first strike. In the baseline exchanges Thiem intelligently attacked Zverv’s forehand as often as possible and was rewarded with errors. But Thiem’s best forehand is his inside-out one to Zverev’s backhand, and he used it profitably and frequently. Even though Zverev’s backhand is his more stable side, Thiem was able to force errors from it by the sheer velocity of his shots. In the end Zverev made a few mistakes, Thiem got in a few more first serves, and he came through to finish with explosive, 100 mph forehand winners. It was a fitting end to a match fought relentlessly by two, well-armed tennis gladiators.

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