OT: The Throwing vs Hitting Tennis Bet

[TheWorstPlayer]

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Matches over $5000 will include hot babes holding umbrellas on the change overs.

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[Daliman]

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Matches over $5000 will include hot babes holding umbrellas on the change overs.

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Where is the "F YEAHHHH" option?

P.S. I will be in LV Oct 6-8. Please do work your match around this.

[Nick Rainey]

Well just for the icing on the cake, matches over $20,000 will 6 super hot models/escorts as the ball girls. Under $20,000 we will have to settle for regular kids. If I can find a private court, we can have topless ball girls, that will be a lot of fun.

[Fabian]

Topless ball girls is what gambling should be all about. [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

[bottomset]

ok so now I have to start playing more, so I can go out there to see this

[Daliman]

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Well just for the icing on the cake, matches over $20,000 will 6 super hot models/escorts as the ball girls. Under $20,000 we will have to settle for regular kids. If I can find a private court, we can have topless ball girls, that will be a lot of fun.

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I could probably get Durr to play you for 20k just for the spectacle of it all. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[the_main]

I will play you for $500 with my bare hands, if you pay for my flight. Deal?

[pokergrader]

I think the easiest good play for the hitter would be to lob every shot into the deep middle of the court and rush the net.

I dont think the thrower can have many winners from the middle of the baseline and its a simple strategy for the hitter to hit a ball from any position. Although if there are obvious winners from the hitter side always take it.

I'm not a good tennis player, but I think I could beat a good thrower with this strategy. I would win a few points on my serve and win a few easy ones on their serve, and they would tire out very quickly since every rally would be long.

[durrrr]

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Well just for the icing on the cake, matches over $20,000 will 6 super hot models/escorts as the ball girls. Under $20,000 we will have to settle for regular kids. If I can find a private court, we can have topless ball girls, that will be a lot of fun.

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I could probably get Durr to play you for 20k just for the spectacle of it all. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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im too confused about whats actually going on... + i suck @ tennis. If it was ping pong and they had to slap it back i might try a prop bet

[MikeMcQ1]

People,

This match will never get beyond the service game assuming the raquet player is anything above an excellent high school level player. Someone at Nick's level will utterly crush any kind of athlete, glove or no glove.

I'm assuming the thrower must "serve" from behind the baseline and into the service area of his opponent. A major-league pitcher isn't throwing a tennis ball 90 MPH, much less some shmuck. AND it must fall within the service area. Try throwing a tennis ball as hard as you can with enough angle to get it to drop down into the service area. There will be no pace on the thrower's serves whatsoever. The tennis player will destroy these serves, *even* if they were coming at 90 MPH.

Now fast forward to catching serves. A glove will be absolutely neccessary. Any thought of not using a glove would be ridiculous. A serve from a top-rate tennis player is hard enough to get a tennis raquet on, let alone catch and control the ball. Even a 2nd serve will be coming hard and with a lot of spin. OK, so you happened to catch a serve. Now you are deep in your backcourt. This is going to put a big damper on your strategy to lob, drop, or whatever let alone throwing a normal shot into play. Again, the raquet player will destroy just about anything other than a perfectly placed lob.

The only chance I give a catcher is if he can (or would have the balls to) catch serves before they hit the ground. Stand at the net and catch the serves there would be his only chance...and now you're risking injury.

This contest gets more interesting if it was a couple of average 3.0 USTA players.