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00:00 [Music]
00:28 [Music]
00:36 Well, good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.
00:40 This is your sportscaster bringing today's match to you through the courtesy of the BBB and BBB Ball Company,
00:46 which we will see in use today on this magnificently kept court whose grassy lawn lies outspread before my very eyes.
00:54 Ah yes, we anticipate quite a gathering who will not pass up the opportunity to witness this thrilling contest with...
01:01 [Buzzer]
01:04 Oh well, everyone to his own taste.
01:07 Now I see our crowd is beginning to gather.
01:10 [Music]
01:18 Oh, ouch!
01:19 Ah yes, they are really packing them in.
01:22 And now, now yes, now I see the contestants coming out onto the field.
01:27 Ah, such confidence and poise these boys display.
01:32 [Music]
01:40 Magnificent specimens of finely trained athletes.
01:44 Hmm?
01:47 And they are ready to play!
01:51 Big Ben has won the spin and will serve first.
01:57 This fellow is known to have one of the most dynamic, devastating serves in tennis.
02:06 And there's the service!
02:09 It's a high...pillabra over the net.
02:12 And an easy return, and a hard drive, and a soft smash, and a terrific recovery to the backcourt!
02:18 And an easy lob, and a tremendous backhand, and a lob, and a smash, and a lob.
02:25 These boys play two entirely different types of tennis.
02:28 Little Joe choosing the soft, placement, headier, steadier, or defensive game.
02:34 And Big Ben preferring the hard, driving, offensive, smashing, slashing, harassing game.
02:41 Well, there's the first game to Little Joe.
02:43 Oh, fudge!
02:45 [Music]
02:51 Now Little Joe serves.
02:54 [Music]
03:05 Aha! Big Ben broke through Little Joe's service.
03:08 [Applause]
03:09 Fast and furious, the pace increases. Five-thirty, thirty-thirty, forty-thirty, forty-forty.
03:14 Hammer and tongs as both boys are brushing the net.
03:17 [Music]
03:29 [Glass shattering]
03:33 [Cheering]
03:38 Psst! Hey, uh, what's the score?
03:41 Well, that evens it off. Now this set should really be a humdinger.
03:47 [Music]
03:49 Joe serves, Ben returns, Joe returns, Ben returns, Joe returns, Ben returns.
03:54 To forty-five, a deep center, a far corner, smash, a backhand, volley, game, lob, lob, drive, deuce, five, ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty.
04:02 Such power, such grace, such rhythm, such spirit.
04:06 Forty-five, forty-thirty, up and add, deuce, out, deuce, Big Joe, add, and Little Ben are both brushing the net.
04:12 This is thrilling.
04:14 Such nerve, such dash, such poetry of motion.
04:17 [Music]
04:22 Now the pressure is really on, both players dashing with reckless abandon, hedgerow and thither, throwing caution to the winds.
04:27 And now look, Little Joe is changing to a two-handed Australian grip. He winds up and he...
04:31 Yad, what a smash!
04:33 Supposedly viewed as... In slow motion.
04:38 [Music]
04:50 [Laughter]
04:52 [Music]
05:19 Whoa!
05:22 [Music]
05:27 Whoa!
05:29 Let's get back to the game.
05:31 It looks from here like Big Ben is forging into the lead.
05:33 No, it's Little Joe. No, Big Ben. No, no, Little Joe. No, it's Little Ben. No, it's Big Joe.
05:37 Forty-thirty, thirty-five, forty-twenty, forty-four, forty-fifty, fifty-four, fifty-five, two-thirty, two-thirty, it's getting late.
05:42 Now deuce, backward, here we go.
05:44 That's forty-thirty, thirty-five, forty-twenty.
05:47 Point, game, match, set, tournament.
05:50 And the champ...
05:52 Hmm?
05:54 Say, uh, who won?
05:57 Ah, just as I thought. What did I tell you? I knew he could do it.
06:02 Condition always tells.
06:04 And now to the champion, the spoils.
06:08 A just and true reward for the victor.
06:10 Ow!
06:13 And the loser? Ha!
06:15 Well, ethics and good sportsmanship demand that he shrug off his feelings of utter disappointment and smile in spite of himself.
06:23 Yes, the champion's a real sport.
06:44 Good sports to the veteran.
06:47 [music]
06:58 [BLANK_AUDIO]