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VeteranTennis, Anyone?
Tennis is fun, tennis is cool.
We Americans don't always show huge interest, but it is great drama. Great theatre. Great sport.
Perhaps I was lucky as a young guy in the late 1970s and early 1980s, my dad would watch Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe and that one blonde Swede, what was his name?
We had one T.V. and it was in the family room.
And I was family.
Tennis and its play and personalities and drama and history and acclaim grew on me.
And I played it, too.
Bjorn Borg!
The original gangster BORG!
The Swedish influence back then was formidable: Abba, the BeeGees (OK, maybe not Scandinavian but their hair was like Borg's locks) and Volvo, not to mention Ingrid in my elementary school. Her dad studied at IU for a while. Great folks, members of my church...
Then there was Yanich Noah from France (his son plays for the Bulls now) and Ivan Lendl of Sweden and Boris Becker of Germany and Michael Chang of the US...
Australia, France, England and the USA...The big four championships. Every February, May, June and September...
And now other parts have cool championships, too, even the Persian Gulf...
The women are fun to watch too.
And doubles? Maybe not as much, but when you get Kournikova playing well with a partner...
GREAT DRAMA.
And the Red Wings are in the playoffs.
Tennis is great.
And who is this new "fall on your face and knees" guy who won that match?
Wow.
Federer and Nadal are kings.
The kings are dead.
Long live the kings and queens of tennis.
So, whether you play or watch:
Enjoy the game!
It's a great racket.
Get it?
PapaClinch