View Single Post Old 07-26-2013, 04:42 PM   #45 roman40's Avatar
Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 309  Originally Posted by
storypeddler View Post If I hit the net a dozen times and 10
fall back on my side, my opponent never apologizes for one of
them. But if a couple pop over and I win the point, I should
apologize? Other than things completely out of a player's
control (like a random gust of wind), I don't really buy the
"luck" argument. If I attempt a dozen low-percentage shots like
this one---shots that should succeed maybe 10% of the time, then
I am not lucky when one of the dozen falls over.  That's like
saying if a player serves at 50% when he goes for his kick
serve, then he got lucky fives times out of the ten he tried it.
No, he didn't. He succeeds at this at a 50% rate, so you expect
to see about 5 out of 10 attempts turn out well for him. If I
hit a huge number of balls very flat and very low and I get a
great number of them within 4-6 inches of the net, you would
logically expect some of them to hit th