Tennis is often typecast as a sport that’s easy to play. All you do is bat a ball back and forth over a net, right?
If you’ve ever played tennis, and my tennis days ended nearly a decade ago after I had knee surgery, you know that’s not true. Tennis can be as physically demanding as any sport played on a court or a field.
Old Dominion’s women’s tennis players lift weights and run, and train hours every day, just like ODU’s men’s teams.
Yet when they had the best season in school history, as they did this spring, they didn’t get a lot of love from the media.