Japanese tennis mom

Out on the tennis court at the high school yesterday evening, a couple of young tennis bucks were practicing their serves. Whack whack whack. Then one of them took off, and the other one's mom showed up. He kept on serving, and from his mom yelling to him in Japanese inferred that he was nisei, or second generation. I imagined that she was yelling at him, as he whacked serve after powerful serve at the corners of the box, something like this: "Don't kick your leg up like that after your topspin serve, you'll never get into Harvard like that!" She didn't sound happy.

But then again, she shagged all the many balls he whacked and delivered the serving hampers to his side so he could whack more. And then, when he was done, he zipped up his rackets and sauntered off, leaving mom to pick up all 100 odd practice balls. Now that's service.