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...midcareer. "I remember sitting at a change-over in 2002 in utter frustration and thinking 'What on earth is going on here? I'm on a grass court and it's the slowest court I've played on this year.' " Veteran tour pro and former Wimbledon doubles champion Jonas Bjorkman says the slower grass courts have homogenized the professional game. "There is a danger that we will have only one type of player soon because everyone is growing up on courts that are roughly the same speed," he says. To underline the point: Federer's great rival, Rafael Nadal...
...There was a time when clay-court [specialists] wouldn't even make the trip [to England]," Bjorkman said after losing to Nadal at the Artois Championships, a warm-up event for Wimbledon. "Now they hardly even need to adjust their game...
Well, maybe. But remember: a decade ago, men's tennis was widely considered deadly boring, mainly because the serve-and-volley exchanges were so brief. Both Bjorkman and Henman admit that the new grass has led to longer, more dramatic points. And they say any grass still presents a special challenge best mastered by players who have a smooth, flowing style and attack with a steady momentum...
...invaders, however will present a powerful line-up containing six veterans with a reputation for hard hitting. Last year the University went into the ninth inning of its game with Dartmouth, leading by one run. With two men out and runners on first and second bases. Captain Bjorkman of the Hanover team pounded out a three base hit and the Granite ball tossers were able to maintain their record of victories. The final count...
...Wiley and then-postdoctoral fellow Pamela J. Bjorkman used a technique called x-ray crystallography to determine the three-dimensional positions of all the atoms in the class I MHC molecule...