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Because I love the sport. I love the way the tour unfolds over the course of the year. I love the different surfaces, and how much they matter. I love that in many tournaments the women play on the same stage as the men. I love watching it and I love playing it. I love its beauty, the patterns of movement and the way points develop and the myriad angles and spins and touches.
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It has replaced soccer as my sports obsession, both as viewer and participant. It has seized my attention and my imagination. I am fascinated by it.
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Someone has to be the best English-language tennis writer in the world. David Foster Wallace is dead, Brian Phillips works for MTV News for some reason, and the realities of the journalistic forms they work in hamstring the rest. So there's a void.