Instead the 25-year-old, who won the season's opening grand slam in 2008, got into shape with matches against male opposition.

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That said, the earcups have almost no articulation, and we had to actually bend the "frame" into shape a bit before we got a useable fit.

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That 3-D data then got plugged into a solid-modeling program where engineering parameters such as material, thickness and structure were assigned to the shape.

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