Robert Frost once famously observed, “Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.” The “Big 3” of men’s tennis (Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic) – playing in what many consider to be the golden age of men’s tennis – have been poetically dominating the sport for decades, despite playing by the same rules as everyone else, with the net up and all. Do ...
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