Tennis keeps so many fit and connected. It’s both a skill and an art. You can play it when you are young and when you are old. You can even have physical maladies which prevent you from running, but allow you to cover the court, slicing and dicing, hitting them where they ain’t. It has lines that never change and rules, except for the scoring, which are easy to learn. The net, old mr. net, the nemesis hangs tautly to control height and distance.
Sometimes, people make rules up, to make the game more friendly. First serve in to start a game the first time around. But the ball only gets to bounce one time, has to go over or around the net and it cannot be outside the lines.
We worry that jobs won’t be coming back. Maybe tennis won’t either. We feel for our friends whose livelihoods depend on maintaining the courts, the schedules and the skills. Who knows? But can you name another game where the person with no points says they are at Luv?
Thanks Lorin,
Well put. The pictures tell such a sad story … the limp net and the dejected looking tennis pro !!!
Nobody knows when we will be able to play again … nor what the “new normal” might be. Things seem to continue to spiral out of control … scares me awake sometimes … thinking about the idiot in charge and his inability to grasp what needs to be done, and not how to do it !!!