the Headmaster's anteroom: take you apart and put you back together as a player
What actually we do for you here is to break you down in very carefully selected ways, take you apart as a little girl and put you back together again as a tennis player who can take the court against any little girl in North America without fear of limitation. With a perspective unmarred by the eyelashes of whatever pockets you brought here. A little girl now who can regard the court as a mirror whose reflection holds no illusions or fear for you.
Context
Tavis's Intake pitch to seven-year-old Tina Echt is the academy's whole project stated flat: it disassembles a child and reassembles her as a player. You come in a little girl and get taken apart "in very carefully selected ways," then reissued "as a tennis player who can take the court... without fear of limitation." The self you arrived with is raw stock; what E.T.A. makes is a functioning tennis body, one that can face the court "as a mirror whose reflection holds no illusions or fear." This is the institutional answer to what a body is for, delivered as a sales promise.