About eight years ago, Matt Walters was a rising star on Arkansas’s men’s tennis team. Over Christmas break, he and his doubles partner were at a local athletic club just hitting around. Nothing serious, just enough to not get rusty during the time off.
Then Matt Roberts showed up. A former Arkansas star and team captain himself, Roberts was playing pro tournaments at the time, and he was helping out as an occasional volunteer coach for the Razorbacks when he was home between tournaments.
The two students had no intentions of a serious practice, but the pro walking in was incapable of anything but that.