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Tennis player wins point after dropping racket

Here’s something you don’t see everyday in tennis: The player who dropped his racket still won a point.

That’s Kei Nishikori, whose racket clattered to the ground after a serve while facing Spain’s Albert Ramos-Vinolas. The Japanese star appeared to give up, but then glanced up and saw Ramos-Vinolas’s return was more than playable. So he grabbed his racket as the ball took a bounce, continued the point and won it.

Never give up, right?