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`lag

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Played tennis


years ago entered the MD state tournament played against Claude England and Dave Pessin who were the #1 nationally ranked 35 and over doubles team.

Yeah, of course they beat us, but my partner won a service game in the first set. He overhead them saying "oh, these guys have nothing" which was basically true but po'd my partner. he managed to win a service game and we lost the first set 1-6. So I said to myself I'm going to win a service game too. Had a pretty good lefty serve and I just let 'er rip, one of two thing was going to happen, it was either going in or going over the fence into the trees. miraculously the balls were going in, fortunately I was really loose.

Long story short, won my serve once, and we lost 1-6, 1-6. which is a hell of a lot better than 0-6, 0-6. Yeah, I was pretty proud of that, not really a star but probably the only time I ever touched the pro world of tennis, and sure, a couple degrees of separation even then, he was a nobody himself on the atp tour and retired, I see only a few losing results for him on the internet. But as I said that's the closest I'd ever come to that world.









[Post edited by `lag at 03/26/2022 11:41AM]

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