鈥淵ou must remember,鈥� Bouin said gently, in his lovely accented English, 鈥渢hat in tennis you have to kill the other.鈥� Not just play better. Sometimes the one who plays better can lose. It鈥檚 a sport of splendid cruelty, for all its decorum and finicky trappings; every winning point comes when the other guy, in front of a whole stadium of people staring directly at him, is forced by his opponent into inadequacy. He lunges for the ball but whiffs, he whacks it long, he hits it into the net, he screws up.
From the stands, you sometimes see players surrender not because they don鈥檛 know how to return the shots coming at them but because the specter of this impending inadequacy has s
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