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John McPhee
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Levels of the Game—I | the New Yorker
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November 26, 2024
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Ashe is frustrated after hitting a shot into the net during a tense moment in the game. Graebner serves and plays aggressively, but Ashe makes an impressive backhand shot that surprises Graebner. Ashe gains the advantage as Graebner feels annoyed by Ashe's luck.
A person’s tennis game begins with his nature and background and comes out through his motor mechanisms into shot patterns and characteristics of play. If he is deliberate, he is a deliberate tennis player; and if he is flamboyant, his game probably is, too. (View Highlight)
