I stepped on the court for the first time and picked up a racket. I looked at the blue, shinny Wilson and proceed to bounce my hand of the middle of the racket pretending like I knew what I was doing. I looked over to my friend Joe, who was on the other side of the court. It was hard to see him because it was a hot sunny day, the court was a dark blue making the sun reflect off of the surface. There was very little shade at the community tennis courts making other people avoid the court but we still wanted to play. I attempted to hit the ball over to him but kept hitting the ball into the net. Slowly every time I hit the ball higher until I finally hit it over the net. It took me about 30 minutes to finally get a good rally with Joe going.
Transition: Now that you have some sort of an idea as to what tennis is and how it’s played, I’d like to share with you some history of the sport.
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“M or W?” I inquired. “W,” he countered. I spun my racket on the ground and when it stopped, I looked at the butt to find it had landed on W. He opted to serve first and just like that, we were off. I had awaited this match for nigh on a year. We possessed the opportunity to conquer our biggest rivals in our house. Our entire team carried a mutual hatred of the Alexander Dawson School. As an expensive private school, they had a picturesque campus, state-of-the-art food services, lavish busses, and their students all had the same snobby attitude. We had a small campus with a low budget meal service. We just got our beautiful new tennis courts this summer and we could not let Dawson claim their first win on them before us. As far as the Peak to Peak tennis program was concerned, this was the championship. It was time to ruin Dawson’s season and claim the battle of Lafayette, Colorado!
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