My things, to my surprise, had sat safely in a locker next to the security desk: my recorder was apparently untouched, the batteries still out, the volume still down, the recordings intact.

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And today I was playing almost three hours on court, and my opponent was watching the TV in the locker room.

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These were the people who were acing advanced placement courses in high school while I was struggling to remember my locker combination.

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"If you ask anyone in the locker room I think they'd all agree that I'm a better player than my ranking suggests - even now three months after coming back from a cruciate ligament injury, " she said.

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