What Love Means In Tennis
When you first pick up a racquet
Love means the pleasure for partaking in the sport is innocent and genuine
Love means anxious to go for your next lesson
Love means getting up 3 hours early to get to an 8am lesson
Love means sleeping with your first new tennis racquet in bed
Love means dragging the parents 60mins early to a lesson 10 minutes away
Love means not realizing the coach’s racquet is bigger than me!
A few years into the sport
Love means remembering the first match you
ever won for the rest of your life
Love means remembering a particular
obscure passing shot or ace you hit for some strange reason
Love means remembering the first
tournament you ever won
Love means experiencing the first loss
that drove you to tears
Love means losing to worst player
possible and somehow picking up your racquets the next morning
Love means losing 0-6, 0-6 and somehow
making it to the net to shake hands
Love means the first tennis trip away
from home, no parents!
Love means watching your first pro
tournament live
At the peak of you tennis career
Love means looking at the top 10 players
and thinking oooo I cannot wait!
Love means winning 6-0, 6-0 and
wondering why are they here
Love means winning 6-0, 6-1 and
realizing bicycles do not come easy anymore!
Love means landing that college
scholarship
Love means realizing tennis defines your
entire life
Love means your answer to everything is
“I can’t I have tennis”
Love means I have come too far in my
career, now I cannot just quit
Love means playing through injuries
Love means quitting for a good period only
to realize you do miss tennis
As an adult playing tennis
Love means realizing tennis made me tough
as nails
Love means being thankful of every
opportunity of family, friendship, good health, and joy it afforded
Love means realizing you got to travel
the globe because you played tennis
Love means wondering why you ever
smashed those racquets
Love means social and recreational
tennis is surprisingly satisfying
Love means seeing the kid you played in
juniors, doing well on TV and you rooting for them
Love means coaching kids that make you
wonder whether you were that good at the same age
Love for tennis means realizing ….. even
as my body slows down….that I just love tennis!
Catchy, I love it son!!!!
ReplyDeleteNyagaz