IN tennis, players sometimes enter the court all strapped up from real or imagined injuries in what is occasionally perceived by rivals as an act of gamesmanship on one hand, or an attempt to prove career-threatening bodily damage on the other.

Those able to read the drama, various reports say, just block off what they believe is a stunt and play their normal, competitive game, lest they get distracted by the thought of treating their opponents more kindly because they seem to be hurting terribly.

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