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Endnote 184 — the "contre-pied" and a tennis pedigree

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Two tennis footnotes: being caught moving the wrong way and having to reverse hard is called a "wrong-foot" or "contre-pied" (p. 1032), a frequent source of junior injuries at which, since the explosion, Hal is the E.T.A. master; and Dennis van der Meer, credited as father of Side-to-Sides, was a Dutch immigrant who rose to major coaching guru.