An Olympiad? (Please don't say the Pro Bowl or the NHL All-Star Game.) Every spring someone trots out the claim that the flurry of buzzer beaters in the NCAA basketball tournament makes it the most riveting event in sports, and there's always the World Cup, but what's happening in tennis feels far more intimate, close up, personal.

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Buzzer-beaters and their equivalents in different sports are the currency of athletic storytelling, whether it's a kid doing his own play-by-play as he heaves a shot toward the hoop above the garage door or the filmmaker looking for that Hollywood ending.

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