Lyle's office hours: the two-handed backhand you can't take back
he’s starting to want to play tennis with his hand over his nose and upper lip. But he has a two-handed backhand and it’s too late to switch and there’s no way they’re going to let him switch to one hand just for aesthetic reasons.
Context
Anton Doucette's mole-anxiety collides with the body's hard-wiring: he'd love to cover his face while he plays, "but he has a two-handed backhand and it’s too late to switch." The stroke-grammar drilled into him years ago is now load-bearing and irreversible — you get one hand free with a one-handed backhand, and Doucette spent his one hand long ago. The regimen doesn't just build a body; it forecloses it, locking in a two-handed grip that no later wish can undo "just for aesthetic reasons."