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To: theFIRMbss
Interesting!

Women's tennis is great.

But I swear, for all of tennis, the game would be 100% more entertaining if they only allowed ONE SERVE......... no second serve, you have to get the first one in!

Either that, or raise the net about two inches.

Yes, go ahead ask me why. I think you know the game.

33 posted on 12/21/2005 8:33:29 AM PST by beyond the sea (If you need a really new idea ..................... read a really old book.)
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To: beyond the sea
>for all of tennis, the game would be 100% more entertaining if they only allowed ONE SERVE ......... no second serve
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Pancho Gonzales was known for his fiery will to win, his cannonball serve, and his all-conquering net game, a combination so potent that the rules on the professional tour were briefly changed in the 1950s to prohibit him from advancing to the net immediately after serving. [They gave players just one serve.] He won even so, and the rules were quickly changed back.
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Tennis tried one serve
back when Gonzales was hot.
They discovered that

so many players
have erratic serves, no one
could have a good match.

34 posted on 12/21/2005 2:40:35 PM PST by theFIRMbss
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