Word: indoors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buddies on the tour. In fact, I discovered that my frantic desire not to fail outweighed all the practice swings and wind sprints. I choked more often than my peers and rarely rose to the occasion when facing a superior. Finding little solace in the chilly locker rooms of indoor racquet clubs, I returned to the easy glory of high school competition and old men's doubles...
Meanwhile, the Crimson men's track teams were much better than their sixth-place slots indoor and out indicated, as they were beset by a debilitating rash of injuries...
Accustomed to playing most of their games before sparse crowds in the dilapidated Indoor Athletic Building, the Crimson cagersfoundthemselves in settings of a different sort a few weeks ago as they played to packed houses in the People's Republic of China...
...progressed from a scrawny kid who could hit the ball over the net two or three times in a row to a scrawny kid who could hit the ball back 20 times without missing. Then he started to play games ? and to win them. His parents joined an indoor tennis club in Stockholm so that he could play during the winter months, often sitting Saturday nights over endless cups of coffee near the almost deserted courts while Bjorn played game after game, set after set. Says Margareta Borg: "He al ways said, 'Just one more set, please, just...
...driver's license in Sweden, his ground strokes had earned him recognition as one of the world's premier clay-court players. But his baseline style and his weak serve and volley made him a less effective player on the fast surfaces of grass and artificial outdoor and indoor courts. He caused teeny-bopper riots when he first came to Wimbledon in 1973 at age 17. But he bowed out, undone on the speedy grass...