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Some New ‘Short Games’ Within a Set of Tennis Cover
By: G. Pollard and  T. Barnett  
Open Access
|Jul 2018

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Language: English
Page range: 67 - 76
Published on: Jul 28, 2018
Published by: International Association of Computer Science in Sport
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

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