After Cochran saw her effortless power and astonishing ambidexterity, he said respectfully: "She's a pistol!" Masako joined her old coach Matsuyama on the tournament roster.
Showing off his ambidexterity, he looped out one ball with his right and another with his left hand and the game was on.
Investigations seemed to indicate that high intelligence is associated with a high degree of laterality or at least with stability (that is, not with ambidexterity).