What’s the name of the game that makes onlookers’ eyes turn in rhythmic unison at a 180-degree switch from side to side? It’s tennis! And with the racquet taking a break for the year end, not many would be complaining about the tennis elbow.
Tennis brings a lot of fame and fortune for the ones that excel. But one could be tagged with a name as well. Jean Borotra, twice Wimbledon champ in 1924 and 1926, was called the `bounding Basque’. He along with Cochet, Lacoste and Brugnon, who dominated tennis in the nineteen twenties, came to be known as the `four musketeers’. Five times Wimbledon champion Bjorn Borg was called `Ice Borg’. And cool and composed Chris Evert became `Ice Maiden’.
Talking of cool and composed, Ilie Nastase was one person who didn’t know what courtly meant – and they called him `Nasty’. And John McEnroe was termed as a `super brat’. There’s much to speak about Nick Kyrgios when it comes to his outspokenness, in recent times. And do you think there’s much of a `joker’ in Novak Djokovic?
While there can’t be too much hate in tennis rivalry, is there too much love? The first ever tennis cartoon appearing in Punch (September, 1874) aptly describes that in a mixed doubles’ conversation:
Miss Maud: How do we stand?
Captain Lovelace: They are six to our love, and love always means nothing you know
Miss Maud: Always?
Those endearing tennis matches (Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, for one) might choose to differ.
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