Every week, I join several dozen people for a 90-minute tennis workout. We have five players per court, five courts, and a pro on each court. Rather than play regular games, we do drills: baseline shots on one court, overheads on the next, then one-up-one-back or volleys, through all five courts. The pros typically run the drills as fast-paced games: the first team to 5 or 7 points wins.
This week, a pro named Shelly was running us through a drill. After a long point, she called out, “Three-two.”
I said, “I thought it was four-one.”
“No,” another player said, “The score’s three-two.”
Shelly jumped into the air and yelled, “Yes! Yes! I’m right! I can’t believe it! I