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but not one with too much time for slow-moving elegance: this is the part of ballet that involves leaps, pirouettes, rapid exchanges at the net, fast smashes, unbelievable retrievals and spatial awareness between the partners. As a men’s doubles pair, Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy have all that, but what they also bring to the court is a distinct swagger. To describe themselves, though, they dipped into tennis. “I like Federer; he likes Nadal. Sometimes when we both

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