Tennis lessons

I heard about a young tennis player causing a stir because he doesn’t have a backhand. Curious how that might work, I found a video.

The answer was simple: he switches the racket to whichever hand is closest to the ball. He has a forehand on the right, and a forehand on the left. The player adapts as needed.

What surprised me more than the unconventional style was my own limited thinking. I’d imagined odd contortions and acrobatics. I hadn’t considered the simplest solution.

It reminds me of a scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), when Indiana Jones faces a swordsman’s threatening flourishes — and calmly resolves the situation with a single shot from his revolver.

Sometimes the clever move isn’t the complicated one. It’s the one we almost overlook.