Okay, here’s my attempt at blogging about figuring out a crossword clue, imitating the requested style:
Okay so, yesterday I was chilling, right? Doing my usual crossword puzzle thing. And I hit a wall. This clue was staring me down: “drop shot in tennis”.
My brain just kinda went blank. Like, I play tennis sometimes, I watch it on TV… but nothing was coming to me.
First thing I did, because duh, I’m not a complete caveman, I googled it. I typed in “tennis drop shot crossword”.
And bam! The top result was saying the answer was “DINK”.
DINK? Seriously? I’ve heard of it. I think I’ve even tried to do it a couple of times… but like, it never clicked that “dink” was THE word.
So, I plugged it into the crossword puzzle. Four letters. Fit perfectly. And suddenly, a bunch of other words around it just fell into place! It was like magic.
But here’s the thing – I didn’t just want the answer. I wanted to UNDERSTAND the answer, you know? I wanted to make sure if I saw “drop shot in tennis” again, I wouldn’t have to rely on Google.
So, I went down a YouTube rabbit hole. Searched for “tennis drop shot tutorial”. Watched like five different videos of these pros showing how to do it.
Basically, it’s all about getting under the ball and putting this crazy spin on it so it barely goes over the net and just dies. Like, it drops. Hence, “drop shot”. Makes sense, right?
I even went out to the court today and tried it out myself. Let me tell you, it’s HARDER than it looks. I mostly just ended up hitting the net, or whacking the ball way out of bounds. But I did manage a couple of decent dinks! Felt pretty good, I’m not gonna lie.
Anyway, yeah. “DINK”. Learned a new thing. Sort of learned how to do it. And conquered the crossword puzzle. Small wins, people, small wins.
