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So, I think tennis is a very simple thing to me: the Grand Slams could solve the entire problem if they paid, let's say, $100,000 for the first round of qualifying. They have the money, right? So they can pay $100,000 first round of qualies. They don't have to go up like crazy. That will help guys ranked around 250 to make it through the year. The
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Keep the ball in play. Keep your eye on the ball. Follow through. These were admonitions for both tennis and life, and they spilled over from the one into the other.
Abraham Verghese • The Tennis Partner: A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss
Part of the motivation for the women’s event returning to Queen’s this year was to shake up some of the long-held assumptions about British tennis. That it is a sport for the middle class, that men are generally given preference, and that change happens at a glacial pace. An extremely expensive members’ club in an affluent area of west London
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