RG17 Highs and lows: #11, The ball kid warmup tradition
Some Parisian traditions should never change.
Some stars passed on playing in the French Open, while others weren't allowed in. You know all their names. What matters is what took place inside and outside the lines in Paris. On the heels of a fairly predictable and alternately off-the-chain major event, here are the thoroughly vetted, unequivocal–or entirely subjective–best and worst moments from the 2017 French Open.
See No. 12 here.
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For all the rapid-fire shotmaking, rancor and rhapsodizing that accompanies play at Roland Garros, perhaps the most dramatic of major events on the year, there are delightful, simple moments in spades as well.
Consider this, the daily warmup that French Open ballpersons (or kids, in this case) take part in:
Now doesn’t that just warm the rooms of your own sacred heart?
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