Thoughts about Tennis Tradition...

[don_budge]

The List...

Fine by me. I just put you on my ignore list. Suggest you do the same.

"I just put you on my ignore list"…that's great. Good bye. Don't ever even suggest to me what I should do. I'm not like you.

[gzhpcu]

Basically you and I have nothing to discuss. Why do you persist in coming into MY thread with your nonsense? Are you some kind of sick person that likes to provoke others by pushing their buttons? Sort of passive aggressive. Just please stop…I don't want to waste my time with you.

Fine by me. I just put you on my ignore list. Suggest you do the same.

[don_budge]

Jimmy Connors vs. Björn Borg…1994 Senior Tour

Nine years down the line from the video posted in the post yesterday. This match with Dwight Stone, Dennis Ralston and Leif Sheris is an exquisite piece of information.

Connors is playing with a Prince racquet…without an open throat. Borg with a oversized Head. This is the earliest example of his playing oversize that I have seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFo3_vcKgMY

More to say on this match…and the commentary.

[don_budge]

gzhpcu...

So according to you there is no difference between Johnston's racket and Newcombe's? Equipment evolves.

Basically you and I have nothing to discuss. Why do you persist in coming into MY thread with your nonsense? Are you some kind of sick person that likes to provoke others by pushing their buttons? Sort of passive aggressive. Just please stop…I don't want to waste my time with you.

[gzhpcu]

So according to you there is no difference between Johnston's racket and Newcombe's? Equipment evolves.

[don_budge]

There are Limits…to Reason

An interesting quote from "The Game of Singles in Tennis" by William F. Talbert and Bruce S. Old, 1962:

"In today's top-flight singles, base line play is the forgotten segment. The long, exciting rallies of the golden era of tennis, as exemplified by the play of Tilden, Johnston, Cochet, Lacoste, Vines, Perry and Budge, are completely missing in the current serve and volley game.... As a result, singles has suffered a real loss in popularity as a spectator sport."

The pendulum keeps swinging back and forth it seems.

What we need is a good mix of both, but hard to see how it could be done...

The way that you have presented this quote is typical. All historical context is lost. Talbert never had an inkling with regard to the equipment. He is talking about something all together different than what you are alluding to.

It has nothing to do with a pendulum swinging…I am surprised that you would make such a comment. It has only to do with snow-shoe sized tennis racquets and sand laden courts…not to mention the suped up strings. Wait a minute…I'm not surprised. The limitations or reasoning power never cease to amaze me.

"Tilden, Johnston, Cochet, Lacoste, Vines, Perry and Budge"…none of these guys played with the modern day snow shoes sized tennis racquets. Extraordinarily limited.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsCyC1dZiN8

[gzhpcu]

An interesting quote from "The Game of Singles in Tennis" by William F. Talbert and Bruce S. Old, 1962:

In today's top-flight singles, base line play is the forgotten segment. The long, exciting rallies of the golden era of tennis, as exemplified by the play of Tilden, Johnston, Cochet, Lacoste, Vines, Perry and Budge, are completely missing in the current serve and volley game.... As a result, singles has suffered a real loss in popularity as a spectator sport.

The pendulum keeps swinging back and forth it seems.

What we need is a good mix of both, but hard to see how it could be done...

[don_budge]

Björn Borg practicing...

Interesting video…Björn Borg practicing. First in the mid '70's with Marianna Simonescu. Then a clip of him using his traditional Donnay practicing against an up and coming Swede in 1985. He looks a bit futile against the new equipment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5apFRFE2KA

[gzhpcu]

Bread and games - ancient Rome - gladiatorial games, nothing new under the sun.

[stotty]

Brave New World...

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

[don_budge]

Aldous Huxley...Brave New World…2016

"It seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods." -- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World 1959


The Presidential Reality Show...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAH6klFQwiM

I pity the children. The poor children.

The number of kids on anti-depressant medication has doubled in the last seven years.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/number-of-children-prescribed-anti-depressants-increases-by-50-in-seven-years-a6920576.html

I pity the children...

[don_budge]

Socrates…a long time ago

"To find yourself…think for yourself."

[don_budge]

Aldous Huxley…Brave New World 1959

"It seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods." -- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World 1959


The Presidential Reality Show...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAH6klFQwiM

I pity the children. The poor children.

[don_budge]

The very foundations of life (tennis)...

The very foundations of life, as Dostoevsky saw it, were being thereby shaken loose and the whole structure was beginning to sway underfoot. Those old enough to have been raised before the disorder set in still managed somehow to maintain their footing by sheer habit. But the young stumbled, fell, and tried desperately to discover new ways of keeping their balance. Many of them, however, were only too willing to crawl and scatter in search of the nearest cracks and holes to take refuge in dank darkness.

So it stands to reason that if you were not fully cognizant and aware by the time the year "1984" one would have a difficult time discerning all that transpires today under the guise of truth.

[curiosity]

Hast broke my head acrosst and given Sir Toby a bloody coxcomb too.

Twelth Night, Act 5, Scene 1

"AGUECHEEK. For the love of God, a surgeon!
Send one presently to Sir Toby.
OLIVIA. What's the matter?
AGUECHEEK. Has broke my head across, and has given Sir Toby a
bloody coxcomb too. For the love of God, your help! I had rather
than forty pound I were at home.
OLIVIA. Who has done this, Sir Andrew?
AGUECHEEK. The Count's gentleman, one Cesario. We took him for a
coward, but he's the very devil incardinate."

Assumptions have consequences often unpredictable as to good or ill.