Buenos Aires is known around the world for its football fanaticism. Little did I know when I moved here that it is also a tennis lover’s paradise. In fact, I ended up becoming such a doubles fan that I had a phase of rejecting men who didn’t play.

Tennis came into my life as soon as I was old enough to hold a racket. Growing up in a British bubble in Dubai in the 1980s and 1990s, my brother and I wound up in tennis classes in part because my mother is a fan of all things classy, to the chagrin of my father. 

This early exposure was interrupted when the family moved to Canada in the early 2000s. The sport was cost prohibitive back then. While I played indoor tennis occasionally, football became my sport of choice as an adult, first in Canada and later in the U.S. Returning to tennis in my early forties seemed a sensible pivot, especially after watching a handful of my former teammates suffer the agony of busted knees. For me, forced inactivity due to injury is a death sentence.

Upon settling in Buenos Aires, a little research revealed no shortage of tree-lined tennis clubs and multi-sport clubs with tennis courts across the city. CABA is home to over 100 well-maintained clay courts. Both........

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