The Tennis Game

Where do tennis players get the idea that the key to tennis happiness is perfecting their strokes? What makes them obsessed with form to the point that they miss out on the game itself?

A large part of the reason is the tennis industry. It makes the lion's share of its profits on your strokes. They all have something to sell you to "fix" them.

Even private lessons are geared more toward improving your strokes than teaching you how to win the game. Bits and pieces of advice on the latter are usually just footnotes to instruction.

There is nothing wrong with this, but the consumer must consider the source of advertising and goods and services and see beyond them.

Tennis isn't about swinging a racket: it's about playing the game. In fact, that's where the fun is.

You can win with pretty strokes or ugly ones. Because the final score is what counts.

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