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Inmates As Tennis Stars?
By dailyme.com
Published: 05/18/2010

LOS ANGELES -- This will be a cakewalk, I tell myself, even though I'm up against a pair of convicted killers.

I toss a tennis ball and swing, a familiar feeling. Years ago I was pretty good, but I don't play much anymore. The guys on the other side, two members of a squad called The Inside Tennis Team, do.

This is tennis behind the broad, looming walls of San Quentin.

We're on a forlorn court lined by a fence low enough to let bullets fly in from a nearby watchtower, should the need arise. The spectators are a handful of guards and a few dozen inmates. Many are serving life sentences, including Chris Schuhmacher and Nguyenly Nguyen, staring at me across the net.

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