Word: cavanaghs
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...Cavanagh picked up a second-hand girl's tennis racket in the ninth grade and taught himself how to play tennis on the asphalt public courts of Cranston, R.I. He never received any lessons or any formal high school coaching...
...rest of the story is predictably soggy and unbelievable. Cavanagh went to Andover for a year and beat all the well-coached, well-dressed country-club preppies. He went to Harvard and played number one much of the season for the freshman tennis team...
...this year as a junior, Cavanagh came back from a sophomore-year injury to play number four for the varsity. He is undefeated in Northern competition...
...Cavanagh is also an all-American hockey player within reach of the all-time Harvard scoring record. He isn't conceited, and he plays cleanly. He is Chip Hilton and Brone Burnett, he is a fourth-grader's dream come true...
...Cavanagh outran his opponents and "played to win." He didn't start working on his strokes until the Harvard coaches began working on him. "I pretty much know how to hit the ball now," he said...