Sublime

Tennis is the sport in which you talk to yourself. No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players.

With all his analyses of its mechanics, Bradley may have broken his game down into its components, but he has reassembled it so seamlessly that all the parts, and also his thousands of hours of practice, are concealed. He is as fluidly graceful as any basketball player I have ever seen.

Community clubs aren’t that expensive, it’s a fabulous way to keep in shape, and who knows who they’ll pair you with in the next tournament? Tennis tournaments are one of the best-kept secrets in town,

Bowerman was forever griping that people make the mistake of thinking only elite Olympians are athletes. But everyone’s an athlete, he said. If you have a body, you’re an athlete. Now he was determined to get this point across to a larger audience.

I also buy a crate of 1989 Beychevelle and we promise to share a bottle every year on the anniversary of our first date.

How aggressive do I want to be tonight? Tennis is about degrees of aggression. You want to be aggressive enough to control a point, not so aggressive that you sacrifice control and expose yourself to unnecessary risk.