Wallmart vs. Wimbledon

You are looking for a date, a soul mate a love interest, a friend, a confident and you decide to try the most popular form of meeting people in the new millennium, online dating!

You probably have found the popular dating destinations online or caught some kind of advertising for them on radio, TV, magazines, billboards or even your postal mail box, services like match.com, yahoo personals, cupid.com etc.

All of these sites have one thing in common, they are huge, they feature a large database of people looking for love, and in the case of match.com, several millions have signed up and they've gotten so big that they market their membership under different names to other non-competing services.

You don't want to date a million people, you would need a thousand lifetimes just to weed out the losers. The big services have realized this problem and are now creating sub categories by interests.

That's all good but where will you find true knowledge about tennis balls, from the floor clerk at the local super WallMart sports dept. or at your local tennis shop?

The answer is obvious, the format that you need is the one at the big W, Wimbledon that is, not the satisfy everybody flavor at Wallmart approach.

Match.com and others are simply too big to meet your needs, further more the balls found at Wallmart will not be of the same match quality as the one you find at your local country club. If you take 10 people in random at least six will tell you that they play tennis, out of that six, three will not remember the last time they played, two will not know where to find there rackets and maybe one (if you're lucky) will have played a year or so ago.

But here at Tennisonic... everyone plays, that's the requirement, you are among friends and among people with the same major interest and passion, you have something to talk about, you can relate right off the bat.

You've heard about speed dating and several other gimmicky ways to meet and evaluate someone for compatibility, there's nothing like playing a tennis match with someone, may it be singles or doubles, by the time the match is over you will have a good idea about that person and whether you want to be on the same court with them ever again.

If the guy shows up in cut off jeans, Billie Jean King wooden racket, multi colored balls and says "let's go volley some", it's time for you to twist your knee and get out of there fast.

I guarantee you that such a person does not exist here, we may not have a million members (almost 6000 and growing), but at the same time we do not have Joe Schmo who falsely believes that he's a tennis player.

Our members are avid tennis fans, most play on a regular basis, many have participated in league play and some have competed in sanctioned tournaments. You have solved the number one obstacle in finding not only a date but someone to spend time with, common interests, and here the common force is tennis.

In my 29 years of watching, learning, playing, competing, coaching and promoting tennis, I have found that tennis players have similar interests on and off the court. Tennis being such a demanding sport, requiring a certain kind of personality who's willing to persists and learn by non-stop repetition while performing an activity requiring much effort and dedication. It takes a certain kind of person to play, stay with and make tennis their love and passion.

The first thing to do is post a profile, then reply to as many profiles as possible, schedule a match at your respective club or park, the worse that can happen is that you played tennis with someone whom you don't want to be romantically involved with. The mutual evaluation on the court is fun, get together with the members, schedule matches, chat, talk, reply post and reply to profiles, meanwhile I will continue to do my best to put tennis players in tennis heaven.

Next week, learn how to evaluate the tennis profile
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