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nology, made of ceramic
fibers, boron, krypton and
several other space age ma-
terials, all moulded together
under sanitary conditions.
I'm still playing with a first
generation aluminum racket
— green plastic throat, and a
warp like a lacrosse stick. My
racket twangs, vibrates and
sends electric shocks to my
elbow if I hit the ball even
slightly off-center.
No matter! If it makes her
happy to have a racket with
custom multi-colored gut
stringing, made of materials
normally found only in in-
terplanetary flight, it's worth
it. We'll find some way to han-
dle the financing charges.
Once she had invested in
the racket, she started taking
serious lessons, for serious
money — and not from me!
From some stranger, some
kid, some teaching pro with
an Australian accent. For
forty bucks an hour, he tells
her to bend her knees. That's
cheap. 1\venty dollars a knee!
Wonderful! I'm happy for her.
I'm glad she's discovered
bending her knees. We have
that in common. I would have
told her for nothing. I don't
understand why the woman
feels she has to go outside the
family to get instruction.
She's married to a cache of
tennis knowledge.
Now when I arrive home,
there's a note fastened to the
refrigerator by-a vinyl-backed
magnetic frog. "Supper is in
the aluminum pan. Just heat
and eat. Don't wait for me."
Or even worse! No aluminum
pan. No supper.
My wife arrives home after
her game has ended, sweaty
and tired, but exhilarated.
She's ready. I'm ready for bed.
She's ready to talk.
She tells me about her
match — in excruciating de-
tail, from the opening double
fault to the final unforced
error. There can't be that
many significant points.
Even if there were, who could
remember them all? Who
would want to remember
them all? She tells me about
the lives, the personalities,
the tennis philosophies of
each of the members of her
group, and their spouses,
whether or not they played
that evening. Who cares?
Can it really take three
hours to describe a one hour
match?
I thought I knew every-
thing about tennis but I
realize now that I was wrong.
What I knew were the basics
— bend your knees, watch the
ball, get your racket back, try
to get your opponent to open
up his can of new balls.
I had overlooked one of the
biggest of all on the long list
of tennis maxims, the truest
of them all.
Nothing, but nothing is as
boring as someone else's
tennis stories! ❑
Richard Newman is a writer
who lives in New York City.
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