Moment of Beauty #3 - Concord Invite

Three matches deserve three moments of beauty. Throughout a long day of tennis, three shots stick out to me. It was so long and I watched so many points that I can't even remember the sequence of shots that led to each of these final putaways. But three people and three winners stay with me today.

#1 - Set point vs. Concord in #1 doubles, somehow Johnny Kauffman ends up with a high volley/overhead, he aims it at the Concord player running back to the baseline and BOOM! He hits him right in the back to win the set. (Johnny gets another ball next practice.)

#2 - Luke approaches the net against Jimtown, and the Jimtown player smashes one to Luke's backhand volley. It was a great shot and Luke had to stretch out, and in stretching he happened to slice a perfect drop shot. It drops on the other side and proceeds to bounce back over the net onto Luke's side before his opponent touches it. Lucky. What made it even better was that the opponent's father kept yelling that it was Jimtown's point, which is incorrect.

#3 - I can't even remember which match it was, but Jonny Shenk was in a fairly long rally where he was keeping the ball back deep to the other guy. Jonny hadn't really hit a shot with a lot of pace for the whole match, and that was true for this point as well. Until the other guy left a shot short and high. Jonny ran in underneath it and pounded it away into the corner. The opponent was left shaking his head in both disappointment, disbelief and frustration. Awesome!