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I know everyone started playing tennis at a certain age for a certain reason- whether your parents handed down a legacy or forced you into it. I am going to talk about how my tennis career began.
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So to keep a long story short, I will start with telling you that I have moved basically every three years of my life and spent a lot of it in a variety of hotels, apartments, and rental homes around the world. At age 11, my family moved to
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Jet-lagged and not knowing a soul, my brother and I were bored to death, stuck in a hotel, and awake at un-godly hours as we have done many times before. After card games and odd Malaysian tv did not satisfy, my mother started brainstorming what it was we could do. And ahhhhh... this is where my tennis story begins...
My mom discovered a Malaysian local passion for tennis and started to realize, virtually every country, other than the North Americas, has tennis implemented in schools, the media, and is generally popular. She also found that most hotels and resorts have tennis lessons for a reasonable price and offer courts. After being involved in many of my mother's sports adventures, my brother and I reluctantly started taking lessons at the Mi Casa hotel in KL even though we were scratching our eyeballs out trying to find out what to do. But we discovered we could play tennis whenever we wanted at all hours of the night without pissing my parents off. Needless to say, we started playing all of the time and continue to this day. In fact my whole family caught the tennis fever- my parents play doubles, singles, and mixed double with several leagues and my brother played in highschool and currently in university. I have never been particularly good at it but love swinging a nasty backhand at those who over look me and play whenever I can. We all get carried away with watching tennis on tv and I have had to get used to feuds and tears when favorite players struggle. Tennis has kept me majorly tied to all the places I have been and given me treasured memories due to the unique experience of playing tennis in a variety from Cambridge, England to all the way to Cape Town, South Africa.
Now, I am simply just keeping up with the 2010 Malaysia Open and am supporting
Dementieva
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