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ELENA BALTACHA: It’s so good to be climbing into the comfort zone

If you asked most people what the life of a tennis player was like, I bet you the word ‘glamorous’ would be one of the first things they thought of.

It might be like that for players like Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams but for most of us the day-to-day life on the road is not like that and the lower down the rankings you are, the fewer frills there are.