Any of y'all ever tried to play tennis?

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I was the opposite. My serve was on point but my backhand was :flabbynsick:

I use to tire myself out by trying to position myself to avoid backhands.
Tennis is fun as hell. I used to play against some of my friends back in college. One was an Ethopian who played a lot of soccer so he had that nonstop stamina and crazy quickness. So we'd have these crazy volleys with me having him running all over the court.

My backhand was too hit or miss though. It was either a nice sharp shot or damn near going over the fence.

A few years later was even able to hold my own against the CEO of our company and his wife who had a tennis court in their backyard. They was shocked that I was as decent as I was.
 

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Tennis is fun as hell. I used to play against some of my friends back in college. One was an Ethopian who played a lot of soccer so he had that nonstop stamina and crazy quickness. So we'd have these crazy volleys with me having him running all over the court.

My backhand was too hit or miss though. It was either a nice sharp shot or damn near going over the fence.

A few years later was even able to hold my own against the CEO of our company and his wife who had a tennis court in their backyard. They was shocked that I was as decent as I was.

I tried playing in high school. My school had seedings and the top 5 seeds were basically varsity and everyone else was junior varsity. I was beating seed #5 on the regular in practice, but the coach refused to bump me up into the 5 seed since the other dude played the year before. So, I basically quit the team after that season because I thought the coach was stupid as hell with that logic. I haven't really played tennis seriously since.
 

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A couple times...but I haven't played in years.

Last time I played I was in High School. The white homey was trying to talk to this broad on the tennis team. One time we were talking to her and her friend about how we were decent in tennis and we could beat them. So they called us out and we went to the park one afternoon to play doubles against them.

They waxed our asses. Mainly because I was getting served (don't ask how), cause my dude had game. I cut my losses after that. lol
 

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I started respecting tennis players 10X more after I tried to play tennis. :to: That some shytt you have to start training at an early age.
 

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I used to play a bit...I couldn't serve for shyt, and very often had trouble returning (hard serves) and keeping power shots inside the lines (my shyts used to head for the fences pretty regularly), but I could get to every ball you hit at me. I was like Michael Chang (lol, how many of y'all even know who he is? I know I'm showing my age with that one :old:).

It's a good workout though.
 

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I took a tennis class one summer in college



I was giving them that work :ohmy:


Instructor made me have to practice against him instead of the other classmates :pacspit:

He was trying all these tricky spin shots on me but my blackleticism was too much for him. Serve and volleyed that nikka off the court :lolbron:

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I played in middle school and high school went to some camps down at UF, I still play recreationally.

My fav thing to do was if folks approached the net was to keep rifling backhand shots ( one of my strong points) at them until they backed down :lawd:


and it's always hilarious when you're playing doubles and you fire a serve into the back of your team mate:pachaha::smugfavre:
 
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I grew up on Rugby, Cricket and Tennis...Played a little soccer and Squash...

My serve was Larry Holmes status...I could never serve over the top like the professionals do...

But after the serve, I was pretty hard to beat...
 

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Senior year of high school I wanted to try a new spring sport
So I went out for the team. It is hard at first but I picked it up quickly. The coaches loved my athletic ability around the net which came from football/basketball background but cacs who had been playin their whole lives were givin me that work :pachaha:
 

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me and my wife did a few years back and while we were only fukkin around, sh!t was NO joke. I wanna get back to playing, but don't have not a damn soul to play w/:beli:
 
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