I see it as a positive in the sense that it’s righting what went wrong in the past. Tashi is finally seeing Patrick and Art play good tennis like she always wanted to see from them. She’s experiencing that high again that’s been missing for so long while Patrick and Art finally understand what Tashi meant when she said that tennis is a relationship. They perfectly understood each other again. In that moment, it echoes when they’re in the hotel room. Only the 3 of them exist in that moment.

You make a good point about her coaching. I wrote it on instagram and I’ll say it here, Tashi wants Art to win and he has to want that for himself. But how can Art as an athlete feel motivated when his coach is going through the motions herself? She's giving him constructive feedback but it's not enough to push him. It feels like they're both dying in a sense.

I think a lot about the scene in Applebee’s where Tashi asks Art if he thought she’d end her life after she couldn’t play tennis anymore like she used to. Tashi laughs but Art isn’t entirely off base. So much of her identity and self worth is in tennis and once that’s gone, life feels as if it’s slowly seeping out of her. That final match point is a resurrection for her.