The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature may not seem the appropriate person to go to for sporting advice but give it a try. Doris Lessing had no athletic pedigree, but her words were sharp with insight. “That is what learning is,” she wrote. “You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way”.
Like, say, the serve in tennis.
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