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Tennis

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A sport for life
A clay tennis court at dusk
A court at dusk — the most beautiful hour of tennis.

Tennis entered my life before photography did — and it stayed forever. It is the only sport in which one person spends three hours alone with everything: with fatigue, with doubt, and with a ball that forgives nothing.

I watch it like a photographer: I look for the moment. A saved break point, a return painted on the line, a fifth-set tie-break — these are frames that cannot be planned. That is why I never skip the big finals or the second weeks of tournaments.

I cheer the loudest for the Poles and the Canadians. Iga showed me that discipline can be beautiful, and Magda — that a match lasts until the very last ball. I will not return to the court myself — an injury closed that chapter. What remains is the most durable part of tennis: understanding the game, and the joy of every clean strike, even someone else’s.

From my notebook

Favourite surfaceclay — long rallies, long drama
My tournamentRoland Garros, the second week
A viewer’s ruleI watch a match to the last ball