Longest Platform Tennis Point Ever?

Randy Lofgren/Nathan Crick vs Wil Lofgren/Edwin Lewis
2021 Detroit Invitational
Orchard Lake Country Club
February 6, 2021

[@PGHPaddle]

Me after the point: Great match fellas. My opponents after the point: first point; 15/love. #dead

[@blackmamba5380]

Xaxaxaxaxaxa...........indeed...

[@jaquevius]

I thought I may be interested in this sport since I found out they have courts not too far away, until seeing this. I’ll stick with tennis. Too much standing around.

[@monem.1212]

What is the size of a platform tennis racket in terms of length, width, thickness and weight ' thanks to those who answered the question 🎾

[@j.jmcquade5278]

Word has it, the rally is still going

[@youngsuit]

Why not more drop shots?

[@mosl2te]

Why am I watching this? Also, why do I find it entertaining?

[@vijaymehra1101]

HIT the ball, looks like warming ups

[@rothotborski]

One team being 11 min in net position just refuses to take any risk and gets punished at the end...kinda fair

[@RichardsWorld]

My first time watching a video of this sport. I guess this is a bad example of a real game.

[@ST-xg3gy]

Why did pickleball take off and this didn't?

[@jjmilkman]

Because it doesn’t require a special court with 4 walls and is slightly less ridiculous looking lol.

[@ST-xg3gy]

@@jjmilkman Makes sense.

[@guillermogre3709]

I prefer padel to platform tennis or pickleball. Never actually played either, pretty sure I would have fun, but I think padel is a better sport.

[@cs9742]

I love platform tennis over pickleball

[@cldavis33]

Never seen platform tennis before,----why not just blast shot straight at their bellies and hope for a really bad contact?

[@AhmedMBakry]

it’s illegal to hit the wall first, must hit the ground then it could touch the wall after it

[@cldavis33]

@@cycologist7069 It's illegal to hit a shot at a person's body? Are you serious?

[@cldavis33]

@@cycologist7069 why not just blast shot straight at their bellies and hope for a really bad contact?

[@andybeckett4340]

Calling BS I was at nationals I. Winnetka Illinois a few years ago 12 minutes in one point in quarter finals with Mark Johnson and Durandt playing against Jared Palmer and Drew Broderick and they were killing it not patty cake shots like here

[@lbjeffries]

This is not the way to gather more fans

[@loveruoo1307]

stop complaining.

[@finelife739]

Looks fun

[@betancourt564]

It's very similar to Pádel played in Argentina and Spain, is this thing newer or older?

[@deapdead]

pádel is older and way more entertaining in my opinion

[@2017Fed]

Platform is way older than padel. Padel is much cooler

[@Eric-rf6te]

Platform Tennis is older. In fact, the first paddles used by Enrique Corcuera (Mexican businessman who invented Padel) were Marcraft platform tennis paddles. That's why Padel was originally, and for over 20 years called Paddle.

[@monem.1212]

​@@Eric-rf6te What is the size of a platform tennis racket in terms of length, width, thickness and weight ' thanks to those who answered the question 🎾

[@veldenlinn1553]

That's absurd.

[@rayniland3817]

Sept 2021 and its gone 5-4 in third

[@paoloreist]

Why smash are so low?

[@blackmamba5380]

What waaaas that! Seriously now??

[@bluedark_polo]

Seems a training Playing with pants and low intensity

[@gn8771]

At 20 degrees F you’d be wearing pants too. French open saw temps in the mid 40s and some players were wearing long sleeves and full length leggings under their shorts. Paddle players would be in shorts and a t-shirt in that weather. While admittedly not a super entertaining point from a spectator’s perspective, the context of the point makes it intense. It’s difficult to remain focused and disciplined enough to resist the temptation to take a big swing and try to end the point. Definitely not easy to understand this mentality if you don’t play the sport, but if you like racquet sports I guarantee you’d get hooked on platform tennis after playing a few times. Cheers dude.

[@oc_g2236]

@@gn8771 pickle ball ftw

[@leshemingway3352]

Awesome

[@gageriprock2734]

I don't get this. Does anyone ever score a point?

[@set1xpro]

Ashamed to say that I watched it twice...so I could count the hit total. 512 strikes. Crazy. Nope. When I play, I wouldn't have the patience to get to 40, much less 100+. Could explain why I loose so often...

[@kellypatman7349]

Orchard Lake💙🤍💙🤍

[@Marc-mj3sk]

This is an abomination.

[@2017Fed]

And this is supposed to be fun?

[@bengray5013]

It doesn’t look like tennis 🎾

[@loveruoo1307]

because it isnt.

[@ferdinandbautista984]

Not even trying.

[@brianhodgman3542]

Weak lobs followed by weak overheads .. ad nauseum... this was garbage

[@loveruoo1307]

maybe the one thats garbage here is you just randomly hating on a sport and its players for no reason whatsoever when they havent anything to you. the fact that you wanna spread negativity and make peoples days worse by commenting shit like this is idiotic. you should be ashamed of yourself and grow up. because right now you act like a kid.

[@Straight90s]

Might be fun to play, extremely boring to watch. Just my opinion. (I’m a tennis player)

[@blackburnrfc1]

It’s fun to play, and watch once you really get into the strategy, but this point is not a good showcase for the sport. The people at the net for 80% of this video were rightly punished for not pushing to win at any point.