The Shrine

I read this article http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis ... id=3073902 a long time ago that talks about how this guy played against Andy Roddick who was forced to use a frying pan as a racket, and actually won. At the beginning of the article the author mentioned he thought about asking Andy Roddick to play left-handed, and this got me thinking, would playing left-handed be better or worse than playing with a frying pan? The whole 'I'm not left-handed' seems to be a pretty well established cliche in a whole mess of stuff and yet it's not clear to me how big of a handicap it is. Would it be much worse or much better than using a frying pan, assuming whoever you play obviously isn't trained to use his other hand? I'd think it'd be much worse, but that's just a guess.

I'd rather play with a frying pan with a hand I know how to use than with the best racket in a hand I don't. Best racket in the world don't mean jack if you don't hit the sweet stop anyways

I'd think using a frying pan is better than using your left hand too, but I heard there are switch-pitchers and that sounds similar to playing left handed by definition, though none of them seems to be successful at the major league level and obviously those guys are trained to be able to use both arms to pitch from the start.

Andy Roddick actually lost to a recreational level player using the frying pan, so it got me thinking if going from racket -> frying pan is that big of a handicap, would the usual "I'm not using my good hand" cliche be even worse? I mean I'm sure we all have seen it dozens of times but the way they show up in movies/manga/whatever really never strike me as that big of a handicap, even though it's probably a huge handicap.

We are talking about Andy Roddick here. I'd like to see Federer against a casual player before I pass judgement :-)

I would much rather lose to a guy playing off handed than if they guy was using a frying pan! Thats humiliation at its best, if you lose in a sport with a competely random piece of replacement equipment, lol. I would be dying laughing everytime he hit the ball, though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwfbYdaYEoc

Reminds me of Tin Cup when he won his clubs back by playing with random tools, including garden tools :p

Oracle wrote:Reminds me of Tin Cup when he won his clubs back by playing with random tools, including garden tools :p

Haha, forgot about that, thats a great sequence.