Hey my friends it's Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and I like tennis I have not always liked tennis this is a relatively

recent thing a couple years ago I played my first scored doubles match. I hit it around with friends for a few years before that, but really didn't have any idea what I was doing or how the sport worked and now I'm learning that because I'm around real

Experienced tennis people who've been playing for 30 years.

They played in high school or college,

and there's a whole culture to it that I didn't know about,

I didn't understand.

I just kind of, I'm a baseball player,

and he just run up there and try to whack the ball real hard and if you get it in it looks cool and that's awesome.

There's a reason that people play tennis the way they play tennis.

I'm learning all of this stuff and it's such an interesting social game because again the old

Hulk Smash just win that's the point it doesn't work that way you have to get people to

play with you in tennis and that means that you have to play tennis a certain way that makes

it enjoyable win or lose for everyone even if you're playing competitive matches and

I'm learning this in part by watching some very physically talented and socially sophisticated people

in our local tennis community play matches.

And I notice there are some guys who are really, really good.

Like, man, I aspire to be good like that someday.

But I also notice they're very nice, and they hold up from time to time. If they can take a point without

dramatically taking a point, I notice they'll choose to do that. I'm like, well why?

Why wouldn't you just destroy it and guarantee it?

And then at other times I'll see these guys pass up a point, even give up a game here or there.

And I'm like, I've played with you a lot. What would be the strategic

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