CRACK!!!
It starts with one and the next thing you know they are everywhere! I’m talking about the cracks on the tennis courts in our public park. The courts have taken a brutal beating throughout the years and will probably only hold up for two or three more. But until the city repairs them tennis players have to deal with the cracks. But in tennis, cracks kill or at least kill the point. When a ball lands on a crack it curves or twists tricking the receiver into believing the ball will go one way when instead it goes another. Therefore the receiver loses the point because the racquet was on the wrong side of the player’s body. The player was expecting the ball to come from one direction when the trajectory of the ball suddenly shifted due to hitting a crack. Now that’s all fine and dandy if you hit the ball on the crack and win the point, but if you’re the receiver the rerouted ball is difficult to recover. Even on the tennis courts, JUST SAY NO TO CRACKS!!!
Suzanne Carlgren
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