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On-court battles won't challenge unassailable sibling bond

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Friday, July 4, 2008

Growing up in Douglaston [N.Y], John and I had some unbelievable pingpong battles in the garage. When I was 11, John was 18 [coming off a surprising semifinal appearance at Wimbledon], so I couldn't beat him in tennis. But I could beat him in pingpong, and he hated that. Our garage had stone walls, and John would slam the racket into the wall when things weren't going well. He was always duct-taping the handles back to the paddle. My father would be upstairs in the kitchen a ...

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