There is this brutal side to tennis. It was invented as a game for kings and cardinals and people with a lot of power who didn't have to share the field with other players.
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Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.
Professional tennis has become an extremely physical and unbelievably competitive sport. Injuries are the bane of tennis players, and it goes with the territory.
Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.
Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.
Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.
Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.
Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.
I think it is very important to have a life off the court, and to me, it wasn't that hard to balance tennis and a relationship.
I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.
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