Destiny and literacy brought two individuals, two tennis singles players from two continents to mold a unique eternal community of friendship, loyalty, passion, ambition, jealously, understanding, diversity, intimacy, humiliation, love and hate. A sweltering Texas afternoon and an overbearing, insensitive, chauvinistic coach, eternally hurting from his missed vocation in life, savagely throws two nave, freshman into an alliance expected to shrivel and die rather than blossom into a beautiful flower of life. .
A destiny that saw this duo eerily start as the only players in their age bracket in the team and continue to their final year as seniors, still as the only representatives in their age bracket and therefore the only members of the original team. A destiny which extended beyond their friendship and even their families. .
Sent with predictable monotony to play on the far tennis courts, often dropped off in remote strange, scary places, regularly being left behind by the team bus for arriving fractionally late on all too frequent early morning starts, gave rise to the necessity to develop an uninterruptible literacy for two then highly vulnerable individuals. This literacy was so strong and fundamental that it became the very core of existence of this duo. They learnt to feel the sorrow, pain and joy of each other. They knew if they other was happy or sad, what each other was thinking, planning or expecting. .
Surviving initially on sheer nave ambition, raw passion, nervous energy and desire to take on the challenges, surprises and disappointments harshly handed down in life, the Duo randomly clawed their way through the jungle of competitive tennis and life itself using a unique literacy of but not limited to mental telepathy, body language, facial expressions, eye contact, hand signals, sharing music, singing and even shouting and giggling. .
