Tennis Racquet

The Little Magic

11/18/2023

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00:00 [Music]

00:28 [Music]

00:36 Well, good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.

00:40 This is your sportscaster bringing today's match to you through the courtesy of the BBB and BBB Ball Company,

00:46 which we will see in use today on this magnificently kept court whose grassy lawn lies outspread before my very eyes.

00:54 Ah yes, we anticipate quite a gathering who will not pass up the opportunity to witness this thrilling contest with...

01:01 [Buzzer]

01:04 Oh well, everyone to his own taste.

01:07 Now I see our crowd is beginning to gather.

01:10 [Music]

01:18 Oh, ouch!

01:19 Ah yes, they are really packing them in.

01:22 And now, now yes, now I see the contestants coming out onto the field.

01:27 Ah, such confidence and poise these boys display.

01:32 [Music]

01:40 Magnificent specimens of finely trained athletes.

01:44 Hmm?

01:47 And they are ready to play!

01:51 Big Ben has won the spin and will serve first.

01:57 This fellow is known to have one of the most dynamic, devastating serves in tennis.

02:06 And there's the service!

02:09 It's a high...pillabra over the net.

02:12 And an easy return, and a hard drive, and a soft smash, and a terrific recovery to the backcourt!

02:18 And an easy lob, and a tremendous backhand, and a lob, and a smash, and a lob.

02:25 These boys play two entirely different types of tennis.

02:28 Little Joe choosing the soft, placement, headier, steadier, or defensive game.

02:34 And Big Ben preferring the hard, driving, offensive, smashing, slashing, harassing game.

02:41 Well, there's the first game to Little Joe.

02:43 Oh, fudge!

02:45 [Music]

02:51 Now Little Joe serves.

02:54 [Music]

03:05 Aha! Big Ben broke through Little Joe's service.

03:08 [Applause]

03:09 Fast and furious, the pace increases. Five-thirty, thirty-thirty, forty-thirty, forty-forty.

03:14 Hammer and tongs as both boys are brushing the net.

03:17 [Music]

03:29 [Glass shattering]

03:33 [Cheering]

03:38 Psst! Hey, uh, what's the score?

03:41 Well, that evens it off. Now this set should really be a humdinger.

03:47 [Music]

03:49 Joe serves, Ben returns, Joe returns, Ben returns, Joe returns, Ben returns.

03:54 To forty-five, a deep center, a far corner, smash, a backhand, volley, game, lob, lob, drive, deuce, five, ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty.

04:02 Such power, such grace, such rhythm, such spirit.

04:06 Forty-five, forty-thirty, up and add, deuce, out, deuce, Big Joe, add, and Little Ben are both brushing the net.

04:12 This is thrilling.

04:14 Such nerve, such dash, such poetry of motion.

04:17 [Music]

04:22 Now the pressure is really on, both players dashing with reckless abandon, hedgerow and thither, throwing caution to the winds.

04:27 And now look, Little Joe is changing to a two-handed Australian grip. He winds up and he...

04:31 Yad, what a smash!

04:33 Supposedly viewed as... In slow motion.

04:38 [Music]

04:50 [Laughter]

04:52 [Music]

05:19 Whoa!

05:22 [Music]

05:27 Whoa!

05:29 Let's get back to the game.

05:31 It looks from here like Big Ben is forging into the lead.

05:33 No, it's Little Joe. No, Big Ben. No, no, Little Joe. No, it's Little Ben. No, it's Big Joe.

05:37 Forty-thirty, thirty-five, forty-twenty, forty-four, forty-fifty, fifty-four, fifty-five, two-thirty, two-thirty, it's getting late.

05:42 Now deuce, backward, here we go.

05:44 That's forty-thirty, thirty-five, forty-twenty.

05:47 Point, game, match, set, tournament.

05:50 And the champ...

05:52 Hmm?

05:54 Say, uh, who won?

05:57 Ah, just as I thought. What did I tell you? I knew he could do it.

06:02 Condition always tells.

06:04 And now to the champion, the spoils.

06:08 A just and true reward for the victor.

06:10 Ow!

06:13 And the loser? Ha!

06:15 Well, ethics and good sportsmanship demand that he shrug off his feelings of utter disappointment and smile in spite of himself.

06:23 Yes, the champion's a real sport.

06:44 Good sports to the veteran.

06:47 [music]

06:58 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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