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Outrageousness? Uh, not so much ...

By Evan Rothman
TENNIS.com

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Fifteen years ago, the great English writer and tennis fan Martin Amis wrote a "Shouts & Murmurs" humor column for The New Yorker titled "Tennis Personalities." In it, he responded to pundits' intermittent call for more "personalities" in the sport thusly: "If, from now on, I can put 'personality' between quotation marks, and use it as an exact synonym of a seven-letter duosyllable starting with 'a' and ending with 'e' (and also featuring, in order of appearance, an 'ss,' an 'h,' an 'o,' and an ...

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