Tennis
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Birth of cool – the origins of the modern tennis racket
“Butterfly We, like the breeze, flow straight out of our lids Them, they got moved by these hard-rock Brooklyn kids Us, floor rush when the DJ’s booming classics You dig the crew on the fattest hip-hop record He touch the… Continue reading
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Michael Chang – always moving forward
In 1985, the tennis world changed seismically when a young Boris Becker won Wimbledon with a power game that shook the sport. Most professional tennis players were already trading their smaller wooden rackets for graphite-composite midsize frames, and other players… Continue reading
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Venus Williams then, now, and always
Who would have guessed that when Venus Williams was given a wild card at this year’s US Open, she would reach a Grand Slam Quarterfinal for the first time since 2017, this time teaming up with Canada’s Leylah Fernandez in… Continue reading
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