From this word, the players began to call this game royal tennis", and today it is known as real tennis". ... Real tennis courts were usually much longer but slightly skinnier than modern tennis courts. ... Real tennis is much different from modern tennis in style of play. ... One strange aspect of real tennis was the chase. ... In real tennis, the server did not necessarily change after each game, and theoretically one player could serve for an entire real tennis match. ...

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Form a strategic alliance and provide the Oasis software to the International Tennis Federation (ITF), United States Professional Tennis Registry (USPTR), United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA), and the United States Tennis Association (USTA). ... This application allows any organization, no matter how big or small, to create a real time ranking system based on their players and results entered in the system. ... GoTennis highlights both professional and amateur tennis news. TennisDirect Part of the MVP.com network, TennisDirect provides tennis equipment, apparel and acce...

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Increasingly, the popular image of tennis is becoming reliant on the sex appeal of players under the age of 20. ... Indeed, Anna Kournikova is a prime example of the production of a new tennis star, merging the role of tennis pro and supermodel in a sport where more people now watch matches on television more than in the stands. ... Kournikova is seen as exotic and alluring by the media and is represented as the supermodel of women's tennis. ... Concentration on the aesthetic qualities of the bodies of these women, distracts from, or silences, their real achievements as athletes. ......

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The words 'tennis' and 'golf' are very important. Tennis is a sport where athletes can play in doubles, or on the same team. ... The other sport they played together was golf and this has the same kind of connotation as tennis. ... Finally, games bring Holden and one other person he is connecting to away from real life for a small amount of time. ... This quote really expresses to the reader how there two come out of real life during their games sometimes. ...

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I met her in the beginning of 7th grade when I started going to the Cape Coral Yacht and Racquet Club tennis program for juniors. ... I became pretty good friends with her, but around the middle of the eighth grade year, I started to get a little lazier, and for some reason just stopped going to tennis all together. ... Around January of 9th grade, just before I came to Mariner, I started going to the tennis clinics again. ... It was easier to be more attracted to Brittany because of us going to the same tennis camp all summer, and seeing each other every day for about 7 ho...

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Forth, I will continue specifying the strategies using advertising campaigns for different activities: basketball, soccer, and tennis. ... This is the case of Nakata who is a real hero in the country. ...

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Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound (1968) uses both stage directions and repetition in unusual and funny ways. ... The Real Inspector Hound is a really complicated play that needs to be read again and again to be fully understood. ... The printed play of The Real Inspector Hound makes it more obvious that there is a frame or a mirroring of an inside and an outside play. ... When "[a tennis ball bounces in through the french windows, followed by FELICITY ... ]," for the second time, things are a little different because Birdboot is onstage. ... I think the stage directions m...

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The grocery store is particularly important to the community as a place to buy cheap whiskey or "Old Tennis Shoes" as the people of Cannery Row portray it. ... "They finished the deal with dignity and Lee Chong threw in the quarter pint of Old Tennis Shoes. ... This is sort of like real life at it's best. ...

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Other Greek's disagree with the statement saying that "there's no real truth about how we ought to live "there's no virtue nor vice, no better nor worse living, no good nor bad, no beauty no hideousness. ... Being on the Hope College men's tennis team, I have made many true friends that I will keep in contact with throughout life. On top of the tennis team, I'm involved in the business club. ...

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What would they know about blood, sweat, and tears and being a "real" athlete?" ... That room was made for "real" athletes who needed bandages for bloody knees or elbows, ice, or massages for sore backs or ankles (McGraw 1). ... You think only men can compete and play a real sport?! ... So, if gold and tennis is a sport, why is cheering not?! Golfers and tennis players are not required to throw up stunts in just seconds, or throw back-hand-springs. ...

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And while on the topic of tennis, how can we forget to mention Anna Kournikova. ... This is the case for major tennis events like Wimbledon where women have always won less for an equal performance on the court. ... Another tennis legend, Martina Navratilova admitted she was gay during an interview with the New York Daily News. ... In October of last year, former NFL lineman Esera Tuaolo told ESPN The Magazine and HBO's "Real Sports" that he is gay. ...

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The image of the upper ("crust") class family - "the white clothed ones from tennis clubs"- is meant to portray another ideal of a family, however, the reality is the "boy puking his heart out in the Gents" showing that the family is just as dysfunctional as the rest of society. ... Larkin believed that in order for people to understand the real world, you must show them reality and they would truly understand rather than accept the idealistic form of the "Essential Beauty." ...

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In another story, a wife returns home from tennis to find her terminally ill husband has taken his life "she is unable to locate "undertakers" in the yellow pages and must look under "funeral directors." ... But the passionate attachment she forms for another of the home's inmates is certainly real, and is played out without shame in front of Grant. ...

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The French throne incidentally, denies Henry's hereditary right to ascend to the French throne and sends him tennis balls as an insult instead of a traditional tribute. ... This on screen marriage was duplicated in real life when Katherine (Emma Thompson) married Branagh. One of the real strengths of the film is its cast of accomplished actors. ...

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Dark - blue cloak with yellow stars over her shoulder, just like the real Virgin of Guadalupe has over her head, shows that Yolanda has conquered the superstitions and she does not have to cover her head any longer. ... Lopez is wearing tennis shoes, that symbolize the everyday life, and how it is affected by our ideas and perceptions. She loves running it gives her the adrenaline rush and of course we all know that running is easier in tennis shoes. ... On the real picture of Virgin of Guadalupe, the cherub is holding the saint Virgin on his wings, but in Yolanda's painting she has ru...

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The most recent attempt to increase testing was at the Australian Tennis Open where random drug testing was introduced. This was due to a recent request from tennis player Lindsay Davenport who called for more drug tests in tennis before the problem got out of hand (Blood Tests). ... In order to protect the health of our athletes, and to keep sports and competition real, the ban on drug use must be continued. ...

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Computer software has made Joyce and Larry L. and their family rich enough to build their dream house - an enormous computer-controlled mansion complete with swimming pool, baseball pitch, miniature estate cars for racing round the grounds, and tennis court, in a leafy Dallas suburb. ... But I think my real strength is that I've done every single job in the company myself, so I know just what's involved in each one. ...

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Katherine is forced to work as a tennis instructor at her sister's camp in New Hampshire while Micheal goes to work in North Carolina with family. ... But Judy Blume does and incredible job at reaching out and making kids feel as if they are real people. ...

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However, in college he will suffer a grade penalty or maybe it will not be accepted late unless there is a real excuse with proof, like a sports event or a health/family issue. ... When I was a senior last year I played tennis every day for around two hours and some days I had classes with a tutor to help me pass some difficult subjects I needed help with. Now in college I am on the tennis team and we train around one hour and a half per day and after that I have enough time to go to the gym, do homework, play videogames, watch series or hang out with friends. ...

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The real dilemma is that skaters are being hassled for skating at places such as banks and schools. ... But the question the school system should answer is this: If the school builds tennis courts for tennis players to use or spends millions of dollars on a stadium for multi sport use or makes a gym for basketball and volleyball, why can't the school create a campus skate park? ...

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These sports and activities include training for outdoor or inside events, American football, rugby, tennis, baseball, handball, volleyball, badminton, table tennis, swimming, cycling, boxing and wrestling. ... During the tournament, Adidas created and shared content via its social media channels in real time, in highly debated moments during games or by giving fans exclusive insights into Adidas' player and federation partners. ...

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Yet when the messenger reveals the "tun of treasure" to be tennis balls, Henry is enraged, "We will in France, by God's grace, play a set. ... The fictional scene before the battle exposes the real dependency that fifteenth and sixteenth century monarchs had on the common soldiers who fought in their wars" (Rackin, 228-229). ... The real Henry believes soldiers and pawns se...

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For example if there are snowy mountains in your country you will ski, you won't play tennis. ... By the 1890's Women were playing sports such as golf and tennis. ... Sponsor's were only able to raise money by promoting the look of the women for example the tennis skirt was designed for sex appeal. ... Radio was the first real live communication used by the masses. ...

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The main house in the novel shows obvious signs of decline and neglect this may be due to the family being unable to afford the upkeep or they could be in complete denial as to how decayed the house looks, just like they are in denial as to what is going on in Ireland at that time they play tennis and have tea and if anyone talks about the troubles they are interrupted this is sow on page 8 when Mr. and Mrs. ... Thought the phrase could also suggest that Ireland is trying to reclaim its land for example "The Last September with its archetypal big house, its insular family (seemingly cut-off ...

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I went to most of her tennis matches to cheer and she came to quite a few of my soccer games to do the same. ... Jen's family flew out for a weekend of one of her tennis matches and she asked me to go to dinner with them both nights they were here. ... She is very busy with school and tennis but it seems like the non-verbal communication has been more of a one-way street so far. ... I avoid disclosing my real feelings and motivations in this manner because I am scared of Jen not asking me to do things for her if she found out. ...

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