One summer when I was a kid, we took a road trip, and during our nightly stops, I shared a room with my grandfather. The upside was Grandpa liked to have Ice Cream every night before bed. The downside was once you got to the room, he wouldn’t let you leave. So we spent every night of that trip sitting in motel rooms, eating Ice cream and watching Wimbledon. I was surprised to find that my Grandpa was a tennis fan. He was a gearhead, and built race cars. I had never heard him talk about any other sport, except Track&Field as he was a pretty good hurdler back in the 30′s. But he was also a self professed “expert” on everything, so in hindsight it makes sense that he would know everything there is to know about tennis.
In less than a week, he turned me into a tennis fan. He explained the game, it’s intricacies, it’s strategies. The philosophy of it. Grandpa would have loved Federer. He also would have loved David Foster Wallace. Who explaining the philosophical boundaries of tennis in his book Infinite Jest used the phrase “we are what we walk between”
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September 15, 2009
love that shot!. I have loved tennis for many years and still play it to this day. one of the most intense spectator sports that just builds and builds in tension as the opponents match one anothers shots.
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