• @tastetheplague@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    145•29 days ago

    Give me like 30 solid years to practice and I’m confident that I could narrowly snatch one point away from an elderly Serena Williams.

    • @Yondoza@sh.itjust.works
      16•29 days ago

      I mean, she just has to serve out once in a match to win the scenario in this question. I don’t think it’s that unreasonable.

    • @jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      20•29 days ago

      Same, but only if I could also stop aging while Serena continues to. I think I might have a chance with 30 years of practice playing against a 73 year old Serena, assuming I get lucky and she breaks a hip.

    • wander1236
      7•29 days ago

      Isn’t a point in tennis what you get by winning 4 volleys in a round?

      • veroxii
        22•29 days ago

        That’s a game.

        A point is a single rally. Then winning 4 points (gotta win by 2 though) wins you the game. First to 6 games (but also by 2) wins you the set. And then the match is usually best of 3 or 5 sets.

          • @Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
            22•29 days ago

            I think you say that because you don’t understand the actual point structure.

            So first point is actually 15. But some people like to just say 5 instead. Now if you both have a point, then you would say 15 all or 5 all. After that, the next point is 30. If you’re tied it’s 30 all. Now the next point is, you got it, 40. If you’re tied, you would obviously say, duece. Now if you score a point, after having 3 points, which is called 40, and you would have more than 2 points than your opponent, then you have won the game, which is the name of a set of points and does not mean you won the whole game. But if you would have 1 more point than your opponent after scoring a point after your 3rd point, then instead of getting a game, you get advantage. You need to score 1 more point to win the game, which is just a set of points and not the whole game. If you have advantage, and your opponent scores a point then you lose your advantage, and it’s right back to duece, which is what you say when both players have 40, which is actually 3 points.

            Easy right?

        • @Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
          2•29 days ago

          It is honestly a difficult game to get into. But of a steel learning curve, and the point system doesn’t help. Very fun game and ive seen there’s a huge community of people that play it, which is great for networking

    • @ryedaft@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      17•29 days ago

      2% insincere/ random/ did not understand the question/ thought the question was actually asking the opposite… that’s pretty low. Usually hard to get that under 6-7%.

    • @taiyang@lemmy.world
      2•29 days ago

      Didn’t realize don’t know was an answer. I feel like that’s a solid answer if you figure there’s a chance of an error or something. I wouldn’t put it since I don’t play, though.

  • @Lucky_777@lemmy.world
    30•29 days ago

    Man, unless you’re on the pro tour, you’re getting handled easily. Tennis is about angle knowledge and of course you have to be in top condition.

    Serena wipes the floor with the avg man and college level tennis players of all genders.

    • @Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
      4•29 days ago

      Yeah that’s what I’m thinking. I can also get a point off of djocovic, just give me a lot of chances. If we’re talking about a point in one game, nah to either. A point in a 3 set match? I think so.

    • @AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world
      4•29 days ago

      So she tries to T them up on the first serve and it goes long. The second serve will surely be a dink over the net because the opponent is nothing for her to fear so they rush the net , return the serve and in an instant their asshole is the size of a tennis ball

      I guess there is a better than 0 chance but I wouldn’t bet against her

  • @rickdg@lemmy.world
    9•29 days ago

    Men who don’t even play tennis fantasising about some monster power serve. That would get chopped off instantly.

  • @dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
    18•29 days ago

    Every time I see this I think, if I was asked my response would be “has she just had a limb amputated? If so, probably still no but maybe.”

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
    11•29 days ago

    My mom could kick my ass at tennis ( …in her prime, she’s in her eighties now), I don’t need to ask Ms. Williams to do it.

    Mom was, in fact, a tennis enthusiast when I was a kid and played weekly, and even at my best I had a crap backhand.

    Serena Williams would demolish me.

  • missingno
    10•29 days ago

    I only need one point in a whole match? I’d just hope for a double-fault.

    • Skua
      10•29 days ago

      That’s probably the best bet for us regular folk, but the problem is that she probably knows that she really doesn’t need to go anywhere near as hard as she could to get every serve past us

  • @prime_number_314159@lemmy.world
    22•28 days ago

    The actual question asked was “Do you think if you were playing your very best tennis, you could win a point off Serena Williams?”

    This leaves huge ambiguity. How many points are we playing? What’s the setting? Does it count if she double faults, or only if I win the point by something I do?

    If it’s a full set, and any point I get regardless of why I get it counts, I think 12% is probably low. Consider the huge advantages most amateurs have of doing very confusing things, and possibly getting some mercy after its clear there’s no true competition to be had, I would give quite high odds that she loses at least one point.

    If this is more like a sudden death, “I’ll bust out my secret serve, and get a point off her in one shot”, 12% is stupid high.

    I have no idea which of those (or the myriad middle options…) People thought they were answering, but for a male with typical bone density, a 120mph serve wouldn’t be enough to drive through your skull, but it will give her a point if it hits you in the face. You have nearly 500 milliseconds to dip out of the way, and let it go sailing over your head for that single fault.