Many years ago I played a lot of tennis. I had the opportunity at a business event to play a set of doubles against the great Rod Laver. Well, when you play a lot of tennis, you develop some instinctual responses to certain shots. So, when Mr. Laver's partner served me wide, I did what I instinctually did at that time, and hit the ball hard down the line...... and passed Mr. Laver. He just looked at me and shook his finger at me and smiled. For the rest of the set, any time he hit the ball my way, it was never hit really hard (not nearly as hard as he could have hit it, thank God!), but it was always just out of my reach. Mr. Laver later in that day was kind enough to spend 15 minutes with me one on one helping me with my backhand. After a while, he said "Davis, you're getting worse not better. Buy me a beer!" So we went into the Pub and had a Fosters. By the way, later that afternoon he played a round of golf and shot par. What an athlete, and a very, very nice man. Today's his 73rd birthday. I also had a chance to play doubles at a different event with Gabbie Sabbatini against Gigi Fernadez and Bud Collins. We were playing on a grass court and Mr. Collins played barefoot! Now you might think from all this that I'm a pretty good player, but that is not the case. In fact I haven't played in a number of years. But I am looking forward to learning Pickle Ball when we get to TV hopefully early next year.
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