Word: prostaff
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What happened next was unusual, even at Port Washington. As I was in the midst of returning a backhand with pitiful timidity, the chunky kid coiled his body into a ball and then released, throwing himself into the air with a fierce, raging scream and launching his Wilson Prostaff toward the high ceiling. The raquet returned to earth on my side of the green court divider, bouncing at the service line and coming to rest near to where I had been awaiting a deep forehand. I called a let, as seemed only appropriate when under attack by unidentified flying Prostaffs...
...this guy? He could have done some serious damage. Half-aware of the potential to look tough in front of the audience high above my head, I picked up the projectile and casually tossed it back over the court divider without comment. John McEnroe managed to hold onto his Prostaff for the rest of that match, which, as I recall, he won by about a 6-0, 6-1 stargin I lost...
What I am left with is good form, a potentially dangerous, but woefully inconsistent, game and the ability to say, "I once played next to John McEnroe at Port Washington, and he got so mad that he threw his Prostaff over the nylon netting and onto my court." (True story.) I also saw Jimmy Arias, the United States' next great player, knock forehand winners when he couldn't have been more than three feet tall...
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