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tennis

PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 10:25 pm
by yancovitch
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........

Re: tennis

PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 4:57 am
by Sinkrate
Tennis, errm….not quite as boring as cricket – so that’s good.

Re: tennis

PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 7:05 am
by Fozzer
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.

Paul.... ;) ... ;) ... :lol: ....!

P.S...Sorry, Yan!... ;) ...!

Re: tennis

PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:30 am
by ShaneG
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:

Re: tennis

PostPosted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 6:58 pm
by Hawkeye07
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:

Re: tennis

PostPosted: Tue May 21, 2019 9:19 am
by FlexibleFlier
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?

Re: tennis

PostPosted: Tue May 21, 2019 9:09 pm
by Hawkeye07
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. :(