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An Essay about the inside of a Tennis Ball

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The Poshness of Tennis

I was listening to Irish handball games as a type of ASMR. I don't really have an interest in handball, but I like the intimacy of it. But tennis is seen as a...it's quite a posh game and it's still a very posh game. Even when you look at tennis like Wimbledon, like fucking the royal family be sitting there, you know, watching this game of tennis. So how tennis ended up being this posh was it ended up being like the sport of kings in medieval Europe. And if you were as wealthy as a king or duke or someone royal and you had all that free time in your hands in the 13th century

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