The tossed ball rises and seems for a second to hang, waiting, cooperating, as balls always seem to do for great players. It's the first of the qualifying rounds for the Canadian Open, one of the major stops on the ATP's "hard-court circuit," which starts right after Wimbledon and climaxes at N.Y.C.'s U.S. Right now, it's 1:00, Saturday, July 22, 1995, on the Stadium Court of the Stade Jarry tennis complex in Montreal. He wants to hit it fully extended and slightly out in front of him–he wants to be able to hit emphatically down on the ball, to generate enough pace to avoid an ambitious return from his opponent. Joyce of Los Angeles serves, when he tosses the ball and his face rises to track it, it looks like he's smiling, but he's not really smiling–his face's circumoral muscles are straining with the rest of his body to reach the ball at the top of the toss's rise.
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