Tennis. Outsiders see it as the garden-party sport, a gentle ballet with rackets and balls. But for professionals who grind their way through the 46-week season, the reality can feel more like hand-to-hand combat, with the prizes often claimed by the last man standing.
Writing last month in the Swiss newspaper Le Matin Dimanche, Stan Wawrinka challenged this strawberries-and-cream perception. In a column about the US Open final, he opened with a description of his panic attack in the locker-room beforehand, which left him weeping and hoping that no one would notice his reddened eyes when he walked into the arena.
He then moved on to the aches that seized his legs in the opening set, to the point where he considered quitting on his chair. Finally, we learned of the mind-numbing exhaustion that gripped him during the latter stages — and may even have worked in his favour when it muffled “those...
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