Word: wimbledon
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Hanzich was very athletic and loved sports, especially tennis, Woody said. The two traveled to Wimbledon and the U.S. Open together this year...
...sport lures film-makers. But sports fans get the real thing on television every week. There's also the problem of actors trying to look like athletes. And move like them, as if a few weeks' practice is all it takes. So we have movies like Wimbledon, in which Kirsten Dunst's character is meant to be the world No. 1 yet her strokes wouldn't stand out at your mother's Wednesday hit-and-giggle...
...knees. Locusts. To most tennis fans, these might seem like the only ways to topple Roger Federer, the three-time defending U.S. Open champion and arguably the greatest tennis player of all time. Federer has already taken two Grand Slam championships this year (the Australian Open and Wimbledon, where he has won five consecutive titles). He has compiled 11 for his career, just three shy of the men's singles record held by Pete Sampras...
...imagine the evolutionary roots of a go-with-what-you-know principle--avoiding poisonous plants, say--but these mental shortcuts suit certain modern problems as well. For example, studies have shown that people are able to pick which of two foreign cities is larger or who will win Wimbledon just by employing the assumption that if a name is recognized, it's likely to be more important...
...long does it take you to recover from a tough loss like this year's Wimbledon final? -Ellen Polo, Warwick, R.I. I give 100% on the court, so I do get upset when I lose. But it doesn't take me much time to recover. The first hours after the match are tough. After a while I forget, and I look forward to the next days back home in Mallorca. I love fishing and golfing there, for example-just being with my old friends. I'm a good loser...