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Now She's Speaking Their Language

Polyglot player Anna Blinkova put in the effort to bridge the cultural gap between the tennis tours and China.

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Ben Rothenberg
Sep 24, 2025
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As the tours begin their yearly Chinese swings in earnest with this week’s start of the China Open in Beijing, culture clashes are also an annual event.

Tired from a long season and with no major on the horizon as a guiding light, players are often on some of their worst behavior in China, as I wrote on Bounces nearly a year ago.

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