Tantrums & Trainers: Trying Not to Get Left Behind Again

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I LIKE being left-handed, if only because it allows me to smugly align myself with the likes of Picasso, Beethoven, Einstein and other geniuses with whom I would otherwise have absolutely nothing in common. When it comes to sports, however, it can be both a blessing and a curse.

As a child I was, to put it kindly, an underachiever at tennis, something I swiftly learned to attribute to my left-handedness, complaining bitterly that "the racquet goes the wrong way to everyone else's".

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Tantrums & Trainers: Trying Not to Get Left Behind Again

In my teens I took up badminton, which I was actually rather good at, realising that being a sou...

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