Hey, I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour.

Tennis metaphor, as we have discussed before, I really like playing tennis.

I'm not that good at it. I picked it up a few years ago.

I would like to think that I'm improving.

My game involves a lot of finessey, spinny stuff probably to disguise a lot of the glaring

weaknesses in my game. And it usually works out pretty well when I play

singles. I can trick people a little bit and stay in games maybe a bit longer than I should be able to.

And every now and then, I really hit my serve, which is designed to have ludicrous amounts of spin.

And if I get that right, it's very effective in singles.

It kicks forward up the bounce aggressively into my opponent's business and they don't return it very well.

And if they do get it back over now, I'm totally in control of the point.

But in doubles, it always works out different.

So with doubles, of course, you're playing against two opponents and you have a teammate.

And so if I'm serving in doubles and I managed to just happen to flukely hit my awesome spinny serve,

what I find is that a lot of times my opponent, the person receiving the serve will just deflect it

and that doubles the spin on it.

And even though it looks like a limp easy ball and like we should be in control of the point,

my teammate will oftentimes miss it because of how crazy the spin is and it'll kick off their racket

in a weird way they didn't expect, which is fine. And that's on me, not on them.

But it's interesting to me how when I play doubles, if I happen to do my very coolest thing that I can do on the court,

it usually doesn't actually result in any points.

It usually boomerangs on us and hurts me in my teammate.

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