Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With 10 minutes to play, freshman Amy Snow lifted a high shot that was headed for the goal. Reilly leapt and was able to bat the ball over the net. Two minutes later, Jennifer Smith launched a shot that Reilly had to smack away from the goal area...
...major cause for the Crimson's loss on Saturday was the inefficiency of its offense, due in most part to its lackluster passing. Harvard (3-7 overall, 0-2 Ivy) failed to move the ball effectively on its side of the net and was unable to set and spike well...
...second half, helping to attack Bernal and set up Harvard's eight second-half corners. Cutone's goal, her fifth of the year, followed a corner which produced a flurry in front of the Cornell goal. Cutone dug the ball out of the confusion in front of the net and flipped it into the upper right corner of the goal. Bernal had fallen down on the play making a save on the initial shot...
...sunny day in Southern California, and at the Vic Braden Tennis College in Coto de Caza, 60 miles southeast of Los Angeles, a few dozen students are watching a most peculiar exhibition. At one end of a tennis court, a ball machine flings one ball after another across the net. Seated on a chair on the opposite side, a short, chubby man, racquet in hand, rises to meet each one, hitting it squarely with a looping forehand. Thwack. Thwack. The balls whiz back over the net, landing just inside the base line...
...tennis players who roll their racquets "over" the ball to impart top spin not only waste energy but also unnecessarily risk "tennis elbow." His high-speed film shows that the ball is in contact with the strings for only four milliseconds and is well on its way to the net before the player even begins rolling his racquet. "Anyway," says Braden, "if the player really hit over the ball, he would drive it into his foot." To impart top spin, he explains, the player needs only to swing from low to high, bringing the face of the racquet...