Word: prematch
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...players' restaurant was a wall filled with jars of candy and licorice, and back at the hotel players spent a good portion of their time playing video games together. Even in this setting, there has always been something particularly childlike about Nadal's public persona, from his obsessive prematch routine of arranging his water bottles just so, to his compulsive butt-scratching between points, to his habit of posing for championship photographs while biting onto trophies like a teething...
...newly published autobiography, Child of Change, Kasparov claims that he is a living example of the new Soviet glasnost and Karpov is a hidebound apparatchik. Karpov, who became champion by default after Bobby Fischer gave up the crown in 1975, has dismissed these charges as merely "part of prematch psychological warfare...
Merrimack finished at 316, behind prematch favorite Salem State and ahead of Harvard and Bentley College, which tied...
...people were in attendance: Grand Slam Candidate Bjorn Borg with a fortune in endorsement insignia to grace his tennis togs; new women's No. 1 Martina Navratilova with a fortune in gold jewelry to adorn her now-winning form; Chris Evert with a list of crack hairdressers for prematch sprucing up; Vitas Gerulaitis with a list of ear-splitting discos for post-match winding down; Evonne Goolagong stayed home with her baby; Jimmy Connors brought his mother along. Only the place was unusual: the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, better known to generations of players and fans as Forest Hills...
...people in the suburbs of Detroit even scheduled a prematch mixed doubles, big enough for full front page coverage in the society sections of the News and Free Press. And the ladies labored weeks of painful planning -- passing hour after hour of busy time killing time licking stamps and addressing invitations and stamping envelopes. And they talked away more busy time worrying about what was to be eaten and whose private court to use and calling all the lucky ladies of the private courts to secure them for the tournament. And in between all the licking and stamping and talking...