| Tennis is a great sport, but not without a few foibles. | | | | two courts over, or the really sneaking ones that |
| Tennis was a game I remember playing from a very | | | | zipped out under the hole in the fence into the big |
| young age. Not really sure, what prompted me to pick | | | | bunch of bushes. I think every tennis court, public or |
| up the game, but my younger brother and I use to | | | | otherwise, should come with a full time staff of ball |
| head over to the local public tennis courts quite a few | | | | boys or ball girls. I love watching those kids on the big |
| times during our summer vacation. Quite a few very | | | | televised matches running around fetching balls, |
| competitive matches ensued during those long | | | | handing out towels, at the beck and call of the players. |
| summer days, and a number of them evolved into | | | | As I've gotten older, and hadchildren, I've tried to |
| some very competitive and verbal matches. Ala John | | | | encourage them to take up the fine and honorable of |
| Mcenroe vs Jimmy Conners kinda stuff. Not the same | | | | career of tennis ball girls, but to no avail. There must be |
| tennis skill level of course, but some of the tennis style | | | | something about chasing all my wild tennis shots, that |
| disagreements certainly did. There are a few things | | | | just doesn't appeal to youngsters these days. |
| that are kind of annoying about the game of tennis, | | | | Tennis Graduation Days |
| especially whey you play at the very beginning skill | | | | I don't play a whole lot of tennis these days. |
| level. One has to be learning to hit a decent tennis | | | | Occasionally I'll play with friends and family while on |
| serve. Certainly tricky, hitting the ball with just the right | | | | vacation, or at resorts that have tennis courts available. |
| power to get it over the next, and still land it in that itty | | | | I've taken up other racket sport activities. Played |
| bitty little square of a service box. Certainly makes you | | | | racquetball for a while before moving on to the game |
| look in awe at the tennis pros, as they pound the | | | | of squash. There is something to be said for playing in |
| tennis balls at over 100 miles per hour just barely over | | | | a court with no net, and no chance of the ball slipping |
| the net, and paint the lines of the service box. Of | | | | under or over the fence. Helps to save my energy for |
| course thousands of hours with a tennis racket in your | | | | running down my opponents shots, instead of traipsing |
| hands hitting balls till there are callouses on your | | | | through a pack of bushes look for that pink tennis ball, |
| callouses helps develop a great tennis serve. | | | | that should be oh so easy to find. Although, I'd have to |
| Tennis Serving Wenches | | | | thank my early days on the tennis courts to develop |
| The other thing that kind of annoys me about tennis, is | | | | my affinity for other racket sports. Their all fun in their |
| all the time spent chasing errant balls. All those tennis | | | | own way, a great game to play with family, and quite |
| shots, that should have been great, but somehow | | | | a racket. |
| ended up flying over the fence, orwhacking the guy | | | | |