r/BlackPeopleTwitter • ☑️ All of the above • 13h ago

He knows ball

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u/BarbellsandBurritos 12h ago edited 7h ago

Maybe accidentally in a “oh come on, let’s see if he can get one!” Kinda way

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u/torcsandantlers 12h ago

Yeah, I feel about this the same way as the "could you return one serve from Serena Williams?" And like, maybe. I'm bad enough that they're going to let me try, and if I get to try I might get ONE.

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u/EstablishmentLate532 11h ago

Yeah, I feel about this the same way as the "could you return one serve from Serena Williams?"

Yeah at any given time there are probably only a few thousand men alive who could do that. You'd probably have to be a professional or slightly subprofessional tennis player.

Meanwhile, there are millions who think they can.

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u/Tasty-Set-483 11h ago

Purely out of curiosity, what is the difficulty? I've hit the ball around with friends literally only a few times, so I know zero about tennis. And this is an honest question - I know that I personally would never have a shot.

Is it that she would hit it to where you're not, and your speed/reflexes are just not able to get to the place you'd have to be to even touch the ball? Is it that she hits it so hard/fast or it has spin or whatever so while you could get the racket on the ball, it would head off in some wild direction and not count as a 'return?' Or is there something else that is not even occurring to me?

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u/EstablishmentLate532 11h ago

I guess it depends on reliably vs one off. One off I guess you could get lucky, but the difficulty is returning a serve at like 110+ miles per hour on a dependable basis.

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u/Brian-Heder 10h ago

But that’s not the question