After 12 days of hard, daily tennis practise and training, all I've managed to lose is one miserable pound. But! I've developed a much better service that allows me to serve free of the fear of double faults for the first time in my tennis-playing life. Actually, it would be closer to the truth if I said that for the first time in 40 years (that's how long I've been playing tennis), I no longer fear to start off the game by serving first. Of course, I also ended up accidentally smashing the racquet I'm holding in the picture. No, no, not because I threw a temper tantrum. One of the things I did wrong all these years was holding the racquet too tightly. So, I had to learn a more relaxed grip which would allow my hand the flexibility to hit the ball with more spin. As it happened, the first time I tried serving with the new grip, the racquet flew out of my hand, hit the ground head first and cracked along the rim.
The funny thing was that once it happened, I didn't have any more fear of losing my racquet and was able to teach myself the new serve with the new grip, using the broken racquet. Luckily it was an old racquet, but it still hurt because I'm very attached to my old stuff!
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