Prior to my son’s birthday party in Scottsdale, I decided to revisit Lost Dog Wash Trail in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve.
We have three public tennis facilities in the area, four if you include Prescott Valley that are tax-payer based.
Right now Dry Beaver Creek is not dry. Eight or nine months of the year it is dry and hot, especially at the lower end south of the Village of Oak Creek.
The 29 year old professional tennis player from Prescott, Andrew Bogdanov, is currently in Korea at the Busan Open, which is a ITF Series 2 event.
The Chapel of the Holy Cross is nestled beneath two un-named hills.
As a tennis history buff, I can really appreciate the time frame known as the “Tennis Boom.”
As the metropolitan area across the Salt River Valley continues to spread out, it is refreshing to see that islands of nature have been kept, well, natural.
The BNP Paribas Open which holds the ATP Tour Masters 1000 and WTA Tour 1000 is the 5th largest tennis event in the world, and is simply known as, “Indian Wells”.
New Year’s Day means hiking. If you want to get your new year off on the right foot, literally speaking, hit the trail.
The new year has begun, and with it a new series of tennis tournament play with Prescott’s own Andrew Bogdanov (29), taking two doubles titles, sharing a singles title due to rain in Tucson, and the next week losing to the No. 15 player in the world in the semi’s at Indian Wells in a closely contested singles match 7-6, 6-3 to No. 1 seed Leandro Pena (33) from Brazil.
Don’t look for turkeys or a creek on the Turkey Creek Trail on the south side of Sedona.
Another fresh new year of tennis has begun, and we are deep into the second week of the Australian Open, the first of four Grand Slams that make and break the players who are there.
It’s probably another sign of old age, reminiscing about days gone by.
The game of tennis is one of the easiest to play after you know the rules and basic fundamentals of hitting a groundstroke, volley, serve and return of serve - all you have to do is know one other person to invite out to play, at least for singles.
The holiday traditions associated with several plants are not well known, yet hiking throughout this season is going to put you up against some of these plants, such as Mistletoe.
The end of the year is near and it’s always interesting to look back at what took place and then forward to what the future has to offer for tennis players in the Prescott area.
Remember the series from 1970, Here Come the Brides?
How do you become what many of us see as a “champion athlete?” Where does that journey begin and how is it realized?
The Parapan American Games in Santiago, Chile are now over and Prescott’s Andrew Bogdanov came away with a great finish in the doubles event, winning a bronze medal with his partner David Wagner from San Diego, CA.
I have noticed that aging involves a number of physical/mental changes.
Professional wheelchair tennis player Andrew Bogdanov of the Prescott area took off Wednesday to go play in the Parapan American Games in Santiago, Chile Nov. 19-25, where he will be one of two players representing the USA in singles and doubles competition.
Food is so basic; I often take it for granted.
If you haven’t been by the Prescott High School tennis facility, 1050 Ruth St., lately, you should wander by and take a look and then try them out.
Some books entertain, some inform, others inspire. My friend Virginia was so inspired by this month’s book discussion title, Born to Run, she decided to write a sequel to this title by training for an ultra-run, starting with the Kachina 50K route on the San Francisco Peaks.