Description
Tennis is a game I've always regarded as "thinking man's" boxing.
There are, of course, no knockdowns or bloody noses. Nor are there any split decisions or split eyelids. But the idea, even in a sport with "love" in it, is to set up your opponent for the "kill."
This can be accomplished by numerous ways: chasing your opponent into the corners, pinning him against the base line, hammering at his backhand or smashing overheads at his mid-section. It is forehand-to-backhand combat, complete with slices and twists instead of uppercuts and jabs, with blazing overspins instead of crunching right hooks.
Yet in tennis, as in boxing, there is that one weapon
which everybody talks about, but few people write about (or know anything about). It is the art of "psyching," a word that is every bit a part of tennis' vocabulary as "fault" and "ace."
