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			Yeah,,, I watched Nadal waste that dude last night.  Jeezus.
Love those golden years of tennis too.  I learned on a wooden racquet but some "up-graded" to a Wilson T-2000 if you can remember those amazing pieces of engineering...  lol    Remember when the bug Prince racquets first came out,,, I never liked them.  I up-graded again from the T-2000 to a Head Director (graphite) that I still have to this day (only as a keep sake mind you).  Played with that one for a good number of years before up-grading to some of the modern Head racquets.   The advancement in racquet engineering definitely changed the whole game.
I really miss playing the game.  I let it slide due to not having enough players at my level to play with on a semi-regular basis.  I really need to get back out there... but as you say... I have other things I tend to gravitate to these days (boating).  It's so fucking hot down here now that we actually took the boat out last Saturday night and stayed out on the intracoastal until after 1:00 am.  I have some really cool LEDs that make mine look like a spaceship almost.  
Speaking of Borg.  I went to his last Pro match (at least that's how they sold it) up in Kansas City.  He played against Roscoe Tanner indoors.  I still have the ticket stub somewhere.
		
		
	 
Wow man Roscoe  Tanner ,what do ya think  HIS serve would  clock at with these rackets 

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Yeah I remember the T2K I had a pretty red T3K and threw the MF in the trash and went back to my  Jack Kramers.
Remember the Prince big heads well /the  advent of Yonex.
That was  the time when raquetball became  popular  and we got an indoor tennis /raquetball facility in our town. The cost of  indoor tennis was like  4 times r-ball and you couldn't a) justify b) find opponents willing to pay for two hours ,many ,including me  started playing r-ball,the next Spring I went out  and promptly gave myself elbow problems from snapping my wrist and  quit tennis.
I began playing r-ball and got  fairly good at it,I wasn't the best in this 5 state area, but I WAS the only  guy who could beat him.
He always marveled that  I couldn't beat a list of  about 3 players he drubbed, then  one day I came up out of a forehand and something caught in my back,I herniated a disk and at 40 my  racket career was over.Until this summer when  my sis and I played some at  our condos.
She was kickin  my ass (bad hip can't run) then  I got  a little   bolder and went for some top spin,screwed somthin up in my left wrist ,tried to keep playing  and it  just wouldn't go (it still isn't right  2 months later). SOOO I switched and played her right handed ( racket/paddle  sports I'm a lefty  but I throw and bat righty) got her to deuce in every game  from there may start playing  RH again soon.
I have a  "Silent  Partner" and a  net in a 40X 60  building I built for my kids to play b-ball and  take batting practice in during our weird wet midwest winters so once the  weather gets bad I may  put in  an hour or two a day.
I've considered the LEDs on my  boat , but haven't done it yet,I love how they look  on the water,I just love summer nights ( might have somthin to do with my preocupation with traditionally nocturnal activities).
I'm thinkin the  Open finals has  Djokovic  vs. Nadal, Murray just seems to be a little off and  Djoko looks like a machine.