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