1.   Rick Macci, whose academy is based in Fort Lauderdale, says the new tennis parents are well-informed, hypercritical and demanding.

2.   She never cared much for the wealthier and pushier tennis parents she later spent afternoons with.

3.   The defense maintains that Jose Menendez was a hypercritical and overbearing tennis parent who forced his sons to follow an impossibly demanding schedule.

4.   Unlike the strong, silent, ground-stroking men, the teen-age girls burst on the scene accompanied by that peculiar sports species, the professional tennis parent.

5.   What that fiasco should have enlightened tennis parents to, more than anything, is the price for making your child the family meal ticket.

6.   Ivan Lendl, a Grand Slam champion, former Davis Cup hero and busy tennis parent, will now be a Hall of Famer, too.