Tag: Tennis

Health, Sports

Exercise tips to try before you hit the tennis court

With the US Open in town, it’s not uncommon to get caught up in the exciting matches and maybe pick up a racket yourself. Tennis players are considered “overhead” athletes who use their upper arms and shoulders in an overhead throwing or swinging motion – but the work and power actually starts in the lower body. According to sports health […]

Parks, Sports

A Red Hook native brings tennis to the Hook, by Nathan Weiser

I take the game on the road,” Pablo Sierra said. “I call it actually tennis anywhere, anytime, anyplace.” He started his own tennis organization called the South Brooklyn Tennis Association (SBTA), which focuses on Red Hook, Sunset Park and Bay Ridge for kids 10 and under. Pablo Sierra is a native of the Red Hook projects who fell in love […]