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Postby yancovitch » Thu Aug 10, 2017 10:25 pm

i don't watch tennis usually, but my wife was watching a game between shapovalov and nadel, and i got caught up in it.......WOW!....i couldn't believe it ...that shap is an amazing player ......and canadian??.....so impressed....cheers........
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Re: tennis

Postby Sinkrate » Fri Aug 11, 2017 4:57 am

Tennis, errm….not quite as boring as cricket – so that’s good.
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Re: tennis

Postby Fozzer » Fri Aug 11, 2017 7:05 am

I reckon that anything to do with kicking, hitting, throwing, etc, a circular-shaped object around on a playing field, has got to be a load of balls...

..of the most boring sort!

I could never figure out the fascination with such a so-called;"sport"! .... :roll: ...!

Far too much energy wasted .... :think: ...

I would much rather sit in a comfy chair and watch paint dry.

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Re: tennis

Postby ShaneG » Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:30 am

I tried to learn to play tennis a couple of times.
Way more physical effort required than I could muster!
Not to mention my severe lack of proper hand-eye coordination. :doh:

Hard to watch on tv, due to all of that grunting they do. I keep waiting for one of them to mess themselves. :dance:
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Re: tennis

Postby Hawkeye07 » Fri Aug 11, 2017 6:58 pm

ShaneG wrote:I tried to learn to play tennis a couple of times.
Way more physical effort required than I could muster!
Not to mention my severe lack of proper hand-eye coordination. :doh:

Hard to watch on tv, due to all of that grunting they do. I keep waiting for one of them to mess themselves. :dance:


I keep waiting for the wardrobe malfunctions. :lol:
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Re: tennis

Postby FlexibleFlier » Tue May 21, 2019 9:19 am

I was a somewhat decent tennis player as a kid (I'm now 78...you do the math) but completely lost interest in the game when the large rackets came on the scene: it became all about baseline power with little or no finesse. In my day "Rocket" Rod Laver was the hardest hitter...he wouldn't last a set these days.

Ah, well, different strokes for different folks, eh?
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Re: tennis

Postby Hawkeye07 » Tue May 21, 2019 9:09 pm

FlexibleFlier wrote:I was a somewhat decent tennis player as a kid (I'm now 78...you do the math) but completely lost interest in the game when the large rackets came on the scene: it became all about baseline power with little or no finesse. In my day "Rocket" Rod Laver was the hardest hitter...he wouldn't last a set these days.

Ah, well, different strokes for different folks, eh?


The oversized bushel baskets they started to use for rackets killed it for me too. :(
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