Been pretty gray & rainy out here the last two weeks or so; the weekends have been literal & figurative bright spots, but not much tennis going on in this part of the universe. Maybe tomorrow!
Almost back to better in terms of spinal-stenosis symptoms, which have moderated to just a low-grade chronic state for now. Reaction-times & leg-strength indicators on the improve, though maybe the final step to get to a fast-escaping heavy ball or a dead-duck net-scraper are a little lacking — there’s a last-ditch desperation that wasn’t there before, before being when we could arrive with plenty of time to spare and formulate an attacking shot; now we are reaching the spot just-in-time to launch a lob back, defense-first.
The serve, which over the last year or so we had just been starting to clock with startling regularity in the 100mph-plus range — a miracle for a bantamweight, height-challenged AARP person — still might never get to those velocities again, unless there is some backbone-friendly way to produce a flat, fast first-service without heaving one’s entire body-mass into the ball. Who knows!
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