Oh My God! Please make me a perfect tennis player. A player of a sort the world will never ever see again even after my demise.
When I play, I should be able to hear ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ from the crowd surrounding me. A player who is capable of making feels royalty as common man. Please make me someone whose running can be compared to gliding. Make me that kind of player who has that unusual ability to make the split second just before the ball is struck freeze, so that the game of tennis seems easy to judge.
God! If you really like me to be more specific, I will assist you in that regard. Let me start with the ground strokes. Please give me the forehand of Rafael Nadal. Allow my forehand to do that disastrous act of looping into the court no matter from where it is hit from. Bless my particular wing to have the kind of reach that makes attempting to wrong foot towards my FH side immaterial. Exactly like Nadal who has an option whether he desires to hit a classic 3000 RPM topspin forehand that requires his rival to dart ten miles behind the net to attempt and hit it or hit a flat powerpacked forehand that requires a 3000 FPS to view it in slow motion. God! I too would like to posses both those qualities in this particular stroke.
Bless me! It was tough to decide. Make my backhand a mixture of Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic. Bless me with the innate sense of counter-punching Murray has been gifted with. Make me capable of lowering my shoulder and twitch my wrist to make the ball fly like a clean winner. Kindly give me Djokovic’s ability to stand like a rock and stretch like a python before hitting a ball that would require any other tennis player to take at least a 2-step sprint, truly near the far backhand corner of the court. You know, I sometimes observe how Djokovic steps towards a ball top-spinning two feet above his shoulder, and instead of running back and hitting it, he calmly advances to hit it wherever he wants and leaves me behind to question physics. Do you know? Richard Gasquet’s backhand can be compared to tennis followers just like Megan Fox to software engineers. Anyway, I remember Marat Safin and David Nalbandian while discussing this wing. However I am sure the added qualities of all the above mentioned athletes would make the talent quite impenetrable.
It would be a great injustice I ignore Stephanie Graf. Both male and female makes the game perfect. She holds the mastery over the stroke. God! Also add some of her qualities in me.
