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How Does Tennis Change My Life
All children at one time or another wanted to try something new. When I was about six years old, I was that child. My mother had just started introducing me to sports a year before that, and that summer I was supposed to go to a tennis summer camp. I was scared, like most kids are when they start something new, but at that time sports were already so familiarized in my brain that I knew I would figure it out and have a fun time doing it. Little did I know that this sport would change my life forever. Coming to the summer camp I had little expectations of what tennis was like, I knew a ball had to go over a net to another person, but that was about it. I quickly noticed that I liked the surface of the court, it was warm, hard, and very easy

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