Of women, Wimbledon and sexist overtones

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There is an ancient Wimbledonian saying, mostly untranslatable but it goes something like "If chance made you a woman and you want to be a champion of Wimbledon, you gotta have big boobs. And blond hair. And body of some Amazonian jungle goddess from a hormonal teenager's fantasy. If you are a man, you just gotta play well." As the time passed, this sacred law has been withheld by generations of long legged Sharapovas and Mladenovics who have marched on and have become famous for their ...

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