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dancing james
Yeah I love tennis, althought my enjoyment of watching it has strangely faded over the years. Maybe only with age do I realise what a headfuck it is. They all have the knowledge and confidence to execute any possible shot with perfection, but doing so against a different opponent and on different days makes it a case of internal warfare. As a player I can see it's unbelievably easy to tunnel into a world of self-hatred and anger when shots that have been made hundreds of thousands of times begin to seem impossible to make in the face of a clever opponent (or a bad day).
It's totally different kind of mental resillance to cycling I think.