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At the Challengers, More Middling Than Movie Magic
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At the Challengers, More Middling Than Movie Magic

A trip to Charlottesville shows Hollywood changed little about life on the middle rungs of the tennis ladder.

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Ben Rothenberg
Nov 01, 2024
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — There’s a decades-old phenomenon of cinetourism: being featured on the silver screen is a great way to put an obscure place on the map of public consciousness, drawing the masses to flock to the scenery they’ve seen on screen in person.

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