An Ace in Tennis

Emory Anderson
Staff writer
  Eric Perez, known to some as Ed or Chimi, is a senior at Bonneville High School (BHS) and a member of the Bonneville Buzz was interviewed about his time playing tennis. He has been in Journalism since his freshman year. He is currently on the school's varsity tennis team. He currently plays doubles with Gael Narcizo, another senior on the Varsity team.He has been playing tennis since his freshman year of high school, and before that he played football during his freshman year. BHS has an assortment of extracurricular sports to choose from, and one of those activities is tennis. The school's tennis team is made up of 47 individuals that build two groups: junior varsity and varsity. The school's varsity team is mostly made up of juniors and seniors. 
  Perez did not really have an interest in playing tennis until he talked to one of friends. His friend talked to him about trying out for tennis as a spring sport, which was not something that Perez had ever considered before. This is a sport the Perez did not have an interest in, but now he “feels like tennis is an extremely fun sport that could be play[ed] for [a long time]” 
  While first starting to play tennis, one of the biggest challenges to overcome was "the learning curve." According to Perez, he struggled with hitting the ball too hard and only aiming to get it over the net. Once Perez learned how hard to hit the ball, he was able to work on ball placement, which is when someone has control over what part of the court the ball lands on. One thing Perez does for his ball placement is he switches which side of the court he serves to. He does that as a way to confuse the opponents on where he is planning to hit the ball next. 
  During his time playing tennis, Perez has found two players to look up to: Roger Fedrerer and Serena Williams. Williams has won more grand slam titles (23) than any other man or woman during the open era and went pro in 1995 when she was 14. Federer has a record for 20 grand slam titles in singles and became Switzerland's junior champion at 14 in 1998. These individuals have both numerous awards in both singles and doubles and have both won gold at the olympics playing doubles tennis.
  Eric Perez is a senior on the BHS tennis varsity team and has been since his freshman year. Tennis is a sport that according to Perez could be played past the high school level. Tennis is a sport that can give people to look up to and be able to look up to. Perez is graduating soon and will take the world by storm. 

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