バボラ物語

最初はモヤ。
次にたまたまロディック。
そして、ラファ。

テニス・ギアにはあまり興味ないんだけど、この記事は時間ができたらちゃんと読んでみようかなと思う。（そう、ここに載せた記事全部にちゃんと目を通してるわけではないのです。ブログに載せる時間があったらちゃんと読んだ方がいい気もするんだけど。。。　ま、記事を肴にあーだこーだ言いたいからアップしてるわけです。）

clipped from www.nytimes.com Benhabiles's player was an American junior almost no one had heard of, Andy Roddick. “I didn't know much about him,” concedes Brownlee, who at the time was working for Prince. Back then, Roddick didn't have a big reputation; in 1999, he lost in the first round of two of the junior grand slam tournaments. Volkl was the only other company willing to give Roddick a racket, but he chose Babolat because of his coach's relationship with Appino. A year later everything changed. Roddick won three out of the four boys' majors and became the No. 1 junior in the world. Other juniors took notice, especially of his monster serve. Some actually phoned Babolat in France, to see if they too could get “Andy's racket.” “If he had been out there with a broomstick,” says Rick Macci, who coached Roddick between ages 9 and 14, “I think people would have wanted to try a broomstick.”