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  • Cate and her male partner were prominently featured in a tennis magazine, and she sent the clipping to the therapist who had smugly told her that a minor back injury was the end of the line for her tennis-playing days.

    Kristen Houghton: Treat the Patient, Not the Age Kristen Houghton 2011

  • Cate and her male partner were prominently featured in a tennis magazine, and she sent the clipping to the therapist who had smugly told her that a minor back injury was the end of the line for her tennis-playing days.

    Kristen Houghton: Treat the Patient, Not the Age Kristen Houghton 2011

  • Cate and her male partner were prominently featured in a tennis magazine, and she sent the clipping to the therapist who had smugly told her that a minor back injury was the end of the line for her tennis-playing days.

    Kristen Houghton: Treat the Patient, Not the Age Kristen Houghton 2011

  • He was in his mid-thirties, the kind of tanned, well-built, tennis-playing guy who subscribes to Esquire because he sees himself in every advertisement and it makes him feel good.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • Ein, a multimillionaire who grew up in Maryland and played tennis in high school, was chatting with a pro tennis-playing friend with the league and started thinking a tennis team would make a good sports addition in the hometown of the Washington Redskins, Nationals and Capitals.

    Ein brings his can-do attitude (and Serena) to pro tennis team 2009

  • The British tennis-playing sisters Marley and Lea Manga, who have accepted a scholarship for a tennis centre in France.

    The moving story of Britain's answer to the Williams sisters 2011

  • Cate and her male partner were prominently featured in a tennis magazine, and she sent the clipping to the therapist who had smugly told her that a minor back injury was the end of the line for her tennis-playing days.

    Kristen Houghton: Treat the Patient, Not the Age Kristen Houghton 2011

  • The British tennis-playing sisters Marley and Lea Manga, who have accepted a scholarship for a tennis centre in France.

    The moving story of Britain's answer to the Williams sisters 2011

  • And, like Rattigan, Gray cunningly shows how a study of middle-class mores can afford a glimpse of the state of nation; the narrow-mindedness and prejudice of 50s England is exactly caught when Holly's tennis-playing, gin-and-it mother says, apropos her son's music teacher, "you don't think he's a Jew, do you?"

    The Late Middle Classes 2010

  • "Pam" seems to be the tennis-playing heroine of Betjeman's "Pot Pourri from a Surrey Garden", published in 1940.

    Operation Mincemeat, Operation Heartbreak, and The Man Who Never Was 2010

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