The wackiest shot
In Nadia Petrova's second round match against Yaroslava Shvedova (playing only her second WTA-level match) on Thursday at Philadelphia, Shvedova had a point for 3-1, and Petrova hit a forehand down the line that was clearly going out until...
...the ball hit the *netpost*, which changed its direction, knocking it sideways back toward the court. It flew almost all the way across the court and bounced inside the far sideline. Shvedova did this amazing little spiral to change direction and damn near got to the ball, which was amazing enough by itself because she was at the far forehand corner when she started and had to turn around and belt all the way to the sideline near the net on the backhand side.
Never seen anything like it. Neither, when interviewed afterwards, had Petrova.
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