Quote by Eugene Scott
Speed in tennis is a strange mixture of intuition, guesswork, foot

Speed in tennis is a strange mixture of intuition, guesswork, footwork and hair-trigger reflexes. Many of the players famed for quickness on court would finish dead last in a field of schoolgirls in a race over any distance more than ten yards. – Eugene Scott

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