There's the simple thrill of hitting a ball with a stick and watching it fly in the air.
"Greg only returned to light gym work this week and until he starts hitting a ball we'll not know whether he'll play (against Australia), " she said.
At 29, Roddick has settled into the role of the cranky vet, and before 18, 000 at the Garden he played the clown, chucking his racket in playful frustration (though at one point almost accidentally hitting a ball girl) and briefly mimicking Nadal by pulling up his sleeves, exposing his biceps and imitating the Spanish champion's loopy topspin strokes.
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He knows too that tennis transcends the mere hitting of a ball across a net.
Mohammad Ashraful also went for 15 just before lunch, hitting a wide ball from Lawson to Sarwan at backward point.
"His game is sharp and he's hitting the ball a long way for someone who is almost 50, " he said.
"I've been hitting the ball a long way, it's going silly distances and my short game has been good, " he said.
Once I got back in it at the beginning of the fourth set, once I got the break back, I started hitting the ball a lot better.
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But that didn't stop him hitting a hook shot 40 yards right, the ball rising 15 feet above the ground to sail through a small opening in the trees.
"She has a natural gift of hitting the ball hard and cleanly with seemingly minimal effort, " said Bates.
"It was a really great match, I felt like I was hitting the ball really well, " added Wozniacki, who switched to a new racquet manufacturer during the off-season.
Then add earplugs so the player cannot hear a swish or the ball hitting the backboard.
"I love the way I'm hitting the ball -- I had a lot of opportunities out there, " he said.
Neutrons ejected from a watery surface move much more slowly than those from a rocky one, because the hydrogen nuclei in water are light enough for an exiting neutron to knock around much like one billiard ball hitting another a process that slows the neutron down.
She was a revelation back then, a hard hitting, screeching, almost reckless ball-basher who did something unthinkable in her first Grand Slam final: She pummeled two-time defending Wimbledon champion Serena Williams.
Key and Northeast then combined, only for the England hopeful to fall lbw to Andrew Hall after hitting 12 fours and a six in his 134-ball effort.
"He makes plays, whether it's tipping the ball out and getting a steal or hitting the big shot to start the fourth, " Durant said.
Australia then raced to an easy target on what remained an inviting pitch for batting, Hughes hitting 12 boundaries and a six in his dashing 75-ball innings.
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Ankiel was credited with a ground-rule double leading off the seventh on a ball down the third-base line that appeared to glance off an usher's leg before hitting a railing.
Gayle played with nonchalant style hitting an 80-ball ton which included 17 fours and a six.
Before, batsmen could play with their pads, usually with the bat tucked in behind, so they would be deemed to be playing a shot, despite having no real intention of hitting the ball.
Murray was hitting the ball cleanly and confidently, and when Federer wasted a chance to get the break back in game three with a poor forehand drop shot, the unusually frustrated reaction from the Swiss said it all.
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The hosts began the epic chase well, with opener Mahela Jayawardene hitting two fours and a six for a run-a-ball 19 before he was caught by Mohammad Aamer off seamer Naved-ul-Hasan to leave the hosts on 36-1 in the sixth over.
It was a brilliant display of ball-striking by the big hitting Queenslander.
"The adrenaline became very high and people began hitting the ball very, very hard, " says Gideon Nevo, a professor of Hebrew Literature at Ben Gurion University, who gave up squash for matkot.
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Ja added the third in the 53rd minute with a touch of individual brilliance, twisting past two defenders and hitting the ball home on the outside of his foot from an acute angle.
Telford's victory was earned when Brown, last season's top scorer, converted a Meechan cross on the half hour, with Meechan himself hitting the ball into the roof of the net following good work by Martyn Naylor minutes into the second half.
An experimental batting order threw up captain Andrew Strauss and Bopara as its openers, and that plan backfired as Strauss departed in the seventh over, flapping at a ball he could barely reach outside the off-stump and hitting it to point.
Cissokho failed to control a long throw-in and the ball bounced off his gloves, hitting the back of Mulangu Bafwafwa's head and rolling embarassingly across the line.
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