a serve rebuilt around a lost arm
Clipperton eventually perfecting the toss-with-the-same-hand-you-serve-with maneuver pioneered by South African doubles specialist Colin van der Hingle after a hideous turbo-prop-charter-aircraft-propeller accident took off his right arm, ear, and sideburn in only the second year of his Show career, in Durban.
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A pure athletic-mechanics datum with the Show's costs folded in: Clipperton masters the one-handed "toss-with-the-same-hand-you-serve-with maneuver," a technique invented by a pro "after a hideous... propeller accident took off his right arm, ear, and sideburn in only the second year of his Show career." The serve — tennis's one moment where the body has to do two things at once — gets re-engineered around a body reduced to a single arm, and the reason such a technique exists at all is that the Show maims. The lineage of Clipperton's gun-hampered toss runs back through an amputation on the pro tour.