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News Flash: A Sport Called Professional Beach Tennis Exists

Mar 13, 2007 – 11:30 AM
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Michael David Smith

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Here's something I didn't know: Beach tennis is a professional sport. The rules are, shockingly, a lot like tennis, except they play on a beach.

Although they call themselves "professionals," I have my doubts about whether they're actually making a living doing this. The defending champion of the National Beach Tennis Association has to moonlight as the tennis coach at College of Charleston. His name is Phil Whitesell, and he had this to say about his school in an interview with Rivalfish:

You coach tennis at College of Charleston, a school rumored to only have a basketball program. Are the girls there as hot as they are portrayed on TV during March madness?
Have you ever been to Charleston? I didn't think so. Both the quality and quantity of girls is impressive. There's a 6:1 girl-to-guy ratio. Some of the guys on the team like to say that out of every six girls, there's four hot ones, and even the two fat ones have hot faces. I think it's because the French settled down here in the South before us.

I'm sure the athletic director at College of Charleston will be thrilled with that quote, and the admissions office has already put it on its brochures.
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