Sporting Life
Bodies break when pushed too hard. Tennis needs to remember this
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Alexander Zverev sustaining an injury during his match against Jannik Sinner in the Wimbledon finals on July 12. In tennis, a pounding, punishing sport, injury is always lurking.
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On a Canadian court in August, a punishing, enlightening ballet. For 14 shots, Daniel Merida, 21, and Learner Tien, 20, sprint, lunge, backpedal, volley, lob, retrieve, turn, their internal motors revving hard, their lungs working like weary bellows.
All this for one tennis point.
