You are watched for about ninety seconds of live ball. Everything else is queueing.
The selectors were not, as far as anyone could tell, writing down winners.
Courtside Desk Stories filed by the Courtside editors.
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Four hours, two tie-breaks and a crowd of nine. The house final nobody was watching turned into the best tennis of the term.
In Defence of the One-Handed Backhand
It loses more points than it wins. It is harder to teach, harder to time and worse against height. Keep it anyway.
What the Groundsmen Know
They are on the courts before anyone and after everyone. We asked what four decades of grass has taught them about how we play.
Six Players, One String Tension
We restrung six rackets to exactly the same specification and gave them back unlabelled. Only two players noticed.
