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Letter: Random serve

Published 17 September 2014

From Harvey Smith

Achieving random tennis serves to take advantage of opponents’ prejudice for order need not involve drawing segments on your watch face (6 September, p 47). A tennis coach once told me to hold the racquet handle loosely when serving. If you don’t know where the ball’s going, your opponent certainly won’t.
Purley, Surrey, UK

Issue no. 2987 published 20 September 2014

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