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I got served: Facing John Isner and a 140-mph tennis ball

By Patrick Hruby
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- My reproductive organs remain intact. Mostly by accident. I'm standing on a sun-kissed clay court in southern Florida, hands wrapped around the handle of an oversized tennis racket, squinting through the bars of a catcher's mask. Take away my volleyball knee pads, and the fact that I'm holding my racket upside down, and the half-dozen tennis balls I've popped over a chain-link fence and onto an adjacent practice court -- where Russian tennis star Anna Chakvetadze and her h ...

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