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...been arranged for the University tennis team this spring, including a Southern trip, on which seven matches are to be played in eight days. Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Pennsylvania, California, West Side Tennis Club, Longwood Cricket Club, Princeton, and Yale are some of the strongest teams which the Crimson racket men will face...
...just said, ‘When you fall off the horse, you get back on,’” Hall said. “Also at the time, I was playing with this little plastic junior racket. So I was like, ‘It’s the plastic.’ And my dad bought me a transition racket for in between junior rackets and normal rackets, and I thought I was a superstar...
...would have these marathon matches, and she had the worst temper,” Hall said of Elias. “At one point she threw her racket, and if I hadn’t ducked, it would have hit me in the head. The USSRA made her write me an official apology note...
Hall confesses to having a bit of a temper herself; she actually has permanent vein damage in her right leg from hitting herself with her racket during matches...
...When you show your anger, [your opponents] know they have an advantage,” Hall said. “So you can choke up on your racket and [hit yourself] subtly, and it kills. So it gets out your aggression while also not letting [your opponent] get any satisfaction...