Growing up in Smyrna, Tenn., was a little tough for a kid who eventually chose tennis as a lifelong career-the town didn't have any courts. J. Wayne Richmond's first love was basketball, and he went to Belmont University in Nashville expecting to make the team. When that didn't work out, he picked up a racquet and found his calling. He helped put himself through school teaching tennis in Nashville public parks and watched Rod Laver play on PBS, the only broadcaster that regularly covered the sport in the 1970s.
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机译：在田纳西州士麦那（Smyrna）长大，对于一个最终选择网球作为终身职业的孩子来说有点困难，该镇没有法院。韦恩·里士满（J. Wayne Richmond）的初恋是篮球，他去了纳什维尔的贝尔蒙特大学（Belmont University）并希望组队。当那没有解决时，他拿起球拍，找到了电话。他帮助自己完成了在纳什维尔公园网球学校的教学，并观看了罗德·拉弗（Rod Laver）在PBS上的比赛，PBS是1970年代唯一定期报道这项运动的广播公司。
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