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Gangji did not see a tennis court until he was 11. They were not in abundance on the island of Zanzibar, off the coast of East Africa, where he was born. He first took racquet in hand when sent to the Prince of Wales boarding school in Nairobi. But field hockey was his sport at the University of London, where he earned a Ph.D. in chemistry. Gangji first sat in an umpire's chair 20 years ago, when he was drafted for a match at his London club...
Fraiberg, along with teammates Eynon, Dockery, Clark and Niederhoffer, descended on Williamstown "like a swarm of gnats," according to Eynon, to capture the first, third and sixth place finishes. The six round, 64-person draw brought the top competitors from around the country to match racquet skills...
...worth about $4 billion, has always sought to crush all comers -- from rivals who might try to bust up his latest deal to weekend tennis partners. On the court he uses a special leather strap that wraps around his scarred right hand to enable him to grip the racquet. "He is the most formidable competitor I've ever had," says Alan Friedberg, a retired chairman of Loews Theater Management Corp. In one tennis rally, Redstone demanded to know whether his ball was in or out. "He had to know, even though we were just hitting," Friedberg recalls with lingering wonder...
...market: their sports are so difficult to learn that most players spend their lives gazing wistfully up at mediocrity's underside. Repeated discouragement, of course, leads to repeated equipment purchase. But gear possibilities are poor; you don't really want moving parts or a liquid crystal display on a racquet or a three wood...
...provide a gearlike association, the way sports shoes have done by gluing on wildly colored pieces of leather and rubber, supposedly of different density and (nifty gear wording here) torsional rigidity, so the shoe looks like a machine. Prince, the firm that in 1976 invented the big, fat tennis racquet for big, fat weekend players, brought out a big-head "Vortex" racquet three years ago. It was the latest in a triumphant evolution of big racquets made of ever more exotic materials, including graphite and boron, and similar alarming materials. The Vortex was made of, let's see, "visco-elastic...