Short Points - Tennis' Guilty Pleasure?
Pat Rafter at Wimbledon I have been watching tennis for over 20 years and in that time the game has gone through tremendous changes. Technological advances from racquets to strings, to the weight and size of tennis balls plus alterations of surfaces; it’s all happened since the mid 1990s. And now, whenever I watch archive footage on YouTube or DVDs of favourite matches, I feel like I am watching something I shouldn’t be watching and it’s an odd feeling, something that has been banished or outlawed and you shouldn’t go there. That my friend is the short point. It really shouldn’t be allowed, which seems to be an unwritten code in top flight tennis. I for one absolutely love and have always loved short points. Many of my favourite players over the years were masters of short points. Some of my favourite matches since the early 1990s have been a study in the art of high quality short points. Matches like the 200...