3.5 tennis: Three set marathon with @tenniswannabes

Played 3 full sets over 2 and a half hours with Roy on a pleasant weekend afternoon. He has improved tremendously since the last time we played many months ago, and now boasts a wicked forehand with an Eastern grip which is so flat and fast it's impossible to get to. He was on form today and hit the ball so cleanly. He also got to every ball and I needed to paint the lines to even sniff a winner. He will be a problem once he develops a good serve.

The sets ended 7-6(7-4), 6-3, 4-6. Would have loved to include the scoreboard but either the app messed up or we lost count at some point. This is a long video so skip through the bookmarks below for the more interesting highlights.

0:00 Here we go
0:22 Testing reflexes at the net
0:44 First of his many bullet forehands
1:06 Forehand variety
2:08 Really good defence
2:55 Good serve, great backhand
3:17 Ridiculous volley
3:38 Super point
4:12 Boom
4:18 Forehand winners to end rallies
5:34 He can ace too
5:54 I kept giving him the short forehand
7:33 Clinical serve plus one
8:23 What a lob
9:28 Never converted so many serve plus ones
9:48 I usually miss sitters like this
11:11 Just quality hitting
11:27 What a pass
12:06 Has to be this good to be a winner
12:23 Ridiculous get
12:47 Two return missiles
13:27 Another serve plus one, no way
13:57 What a strike
14:04 Smart drop
15:23 Another fire forehand
17:59 Murray lob
18:13 Such a clean backhand down the line
20:15 Sick dig

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