“What do you do when you see a great shot in tennis? There should be a taxonomy of sports based on the involuntary physical reactions you have when you watch their peak moments. Football — like golf, weirdly — makes you pump your fist and shout, or throw your arms over your head and wail. Basketball makes your eyes boggle and your mouth gape.6 A great shot in tennis, like a great goal in soccer, makes you laugh in disbelief. I have no idea why this is, but for all the game’s tragic overtones, Federer at his best, the Federer who came out fleetingly at the start of the match yesterday, turns you into a little kid laughing at a ball.”
Dog Days of Wimbledon: Brian Phillips on the Roger Federer-Adrian Mannarino match - Grantland
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