The epic battles of Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe sent me out to my driveway.
There I would be, hitting tennis balls against the side of my family?s garage, the ricochet coming off the wall, and pounding into the hard-packed shale before it was time to hit it again.
You hear that clay produces bad bounces. Well, those folks haven?t played on shale. Compared with the upper-class, country club set, it wasn?t like a kid growing up on a property surrounded by dairy farms and railroad tracks was going to become an accomplished tennis star anyway.
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