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News

• Tennis father 'drugged rivals'
  6/Aug/2003
  
• Wimbledon watered in wee hours
  8/Jul/2003
• Nude tennis tourney set for Webcast
  9/May/2003
• Wimbledon makes it a hat trick for prankster
  27/Jun/2002

Video

• The chinese have an unusual way of playing table tennis
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• Japanese Matrix-style table tennis
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• Ouch! (not for the squeamish)
  (MPG, 325KB)
• How to climb through a tennis racquet
  (MPG, 869KB)

British Pathe has released lots of old newsreel clips, including quite a few of tennis in Ireland from the 1920s/30s, which can be downloaded for free once you fill out the usual forms. Example searches: tennis dublin, tennis ireland

Audio

• Alan Partidge interviews...
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  • Two of the UK's leading female badminton players

Websites

• www.tennisinthebuff.com
  Your one-stop-shop for clothing optional tennis!

Competitions

• Mount Pleasant competition
• Wimbledon monthly caption competition

Games

• Mount Pleasant Memory Game
• 3D Table Tennis (MiniClip.com)
• Tennis: Smash Return (BBC)

The minimum age for attendance at tennis, soccer and golf academies has dropped to 2, according to a June 2002 CNN story.

Most parents are motivated, say experts, by visions of their toddlers growing up to become top pro players or at least earning college scholarships.

Said one parent, whose 3-year-old daughter hits 70 tennis balls a day, "I think you have an edge starting at 3 with all (my daughter's) friends starting at 4 or 5."