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...were 25 again, handed a modern racquet and given six months to practice with it and whip yourself into shape, could you excel in the current era? Is there anything about the demands of modern tennis that you couldn't have coped with? These hypotheticals can come from a hundred different directions. But I finished my career in the seniors playing with a larger-headed racquet - it was wood and graphite. And I went back about 10 years! It was, "Hey, I can serve, I can volley." I had a bigger surface to play with and could put more spin...
...when he beat his mate Neale Fraser on grass in the final. "I can show you," he says, rising from his dining table and disappearing into another part of his Brisbane home. Though 70 and with two new hips, he moves lightly, returning moments later with a battered racquet. Its head is small by today's standards, but it feels heavy and unwieldy. Cooper's big break in the '57 Open was Fraser upsetting Lew Hoad in a semi-final. "Lew had an off day," says Cooper. "He could have those, but when he was on he was unbeatable...
...theory once prevailed that if the top 100 male tennis players were banned from touching a racquet for a month, the great American baseliner Andre Agassi would have been most likely to win the first tournament played thereafter. The reasoning was that Agassi, who retired last year, was the most gifted ball striker on the Tour and therefore the least dependent on practice for producing his best in matches...
...more competitive matches, eventually winning 10-8, 9-0, 5-9, 9-6. Senior Garnett Booth won without giving up a point in a 9-0, 9-0, 9-0 sweep. Senior Mihir Sheth, after being hit in the hand with his opponent’s racquet, won in three quick games. Freshman Colin West also had an easy time in the third slot for Harvard. After winter break, the Crimson will face its toughest competitors of the season when it takes on Trinity, Penn, Princeton, and Yale. “Everyone is fit and playing well...
...Break your wrist? Six weeks in a cast then six weeks of exercises. Carpal tunnel? Ten days with the surgical bandage-if you have a desk job, you can be back to work that afternoon but you can't hold a racquet for three more weeks. I try not to sound like a waitress rattling off tonight's specials but after 22 years, sometimes I can't help...