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Teen. Hunger. Force.

By Lindsay Berra
ESPN The Magazine

Thursday, August 20, 2009

This story appears in the August 24 issue of ESPN The Magazine. At first glance, she blends right in. There on the courts of Atlanta's tony Racquet Club of the South, with her white visor and blond ponytail, she looks like just another girl in a swarm of tanned teenage players. But watch. Soon enough, her game will give her away. On a frontcourt fringed with pink Georgia crape myrtles, the girl from nearby Marietta rips a blistering forehand that sends a male adversary sprawling. She trots ba ...

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