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Random Tennis Player Biofile: Dominick DeCarlo
3 Comments · Posted by Scoop Malinowski in Articles, Scoop
Interviewed At: Longboat Key Club at Longboat Key, FL.
From: Fort Lee, NJ. Member at Oritani Field Club in Hackensack, NJ.
First Tennis Memory: “Playing with my buddy Bruce Grazing.”
Tennis Inspiration: “I wanted to win the 35s and I did it.”
Greatest Tennis Moment: “I guess winning the Bergen County 35s two years in a row (in Franklin Lakes).”
Most Painful Tennis Moment: “I lost a doubles match with my buddy Papa love and love a year ago. Maybe having five match points against Paul Lee and not converting. Bad memory. At Oritani (Field Club). Club match.”
Strangest Match: “I played some girl who was going to play at Wimbledon in doubles – Penny Johnson. I challenged her in doubles and I beat her 2 and 3. In Fort Myers. She wanted to quit tennis after that. I played a ranked player from Arizona, I beat him in the 35s at Upper Ridgewood. After the match he said I was the worst player he ever played. I said, Hell if I’m the worst you must really be a bum because I beat him 3 and 3.”
Favorite Tennis Book: “Zone 5 Instruction By Nick Bollettieri.”
Favorite Players To Watch: “Djokovic. Nadal. Borg. And my daughter Lauren, I love watching her play.”
Why Do You Love Playing Tennis: “It’s like life. It tells you a lot. You can never stop learning.”
Shoes You Play In: “Babolat, New Balance.”
Racquet You Play With: “Wilson Sledgehammer.”
First Famous Tennis Player You Met: “I guess it was Steve Siegel. He was famous in the New Jersey area.”
Funny Tennis Memory: “I played with a Romanian player who said Borg came to play against the entire Romanian Davis Cup team for practice and he won all 30 sets by 6-0. No one was able to win a game off him.”
"You never stop learning." · In life and tennis
Scoop Malinowski · January 6, 2013 at 10:25 am
How about that, Borg played the entire Romanian Davis Cup team and records 30 bagels over them.
Christina DeCarlo · January 6, 2013 at 11:03 am
How great……Hope to see you soon and have many good matches with Dom….He says snap that wrist for the serve and pronate 🙂
Scoop Malinowski · January 7, 2013 at 7:26 am
Thank you Christina, but which one is it snap the wrist or pronate? I have trouble with each one let alone both together ) One of these days…