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Tennis More than a Game for Charlestown's Jimmy Ye
Sixteen-year-old Jimmy Ye uses tennis to adjust to unfamiliar surroundings. He now ranks among the top 15 players in the state of Massachusetts.
As Jimmy Ye looked up at the TD Garden jumbotron, he couldn't believe it was his own face staring back down at him. It was like a dream. When he looked away from the screen and saw Andre Agassi staring at him across the net it didn’t get any more believable. Ye was just a ball boy at the Garden for a Champions Cup on Oct. 2 before four-time Grand Slam champion Jim Courier handed him a racquet and told him to face Agassi. Courier needed to break Agassi’s serve and the 16-year-old from Charlestown was his best chance. “When [Courier] gave me cue to come over there, I was shocked,” Ye said. “I remember every point. I was so nervous.” After a first point that Ye called a “giveaway” by the former world No. 1, Agassi decided to turn up the dial…
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