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Unusual Tennis Diets
Akshay
While
professional
athletes
are
usually
suppose
to
follow
a
strict
regime
in
order
to
perform
at
their
optimum
levels,
our
tennis
stars
don't
seem
to
buy
into
that
philosophy.
Right
from
Bjorn
Borg's
who
would
eat
cheese
burgers
and
beer
during
a
tournament
to
Suzanne
Lenglen
who
used
to
drink
in
between
her
matches,
tennis
players
have
rather
odd
methods
of
prepping
for
a
match.
Outside
of
the
tennis
tour,
fans
believe
that
their
favourite
players
follow
a
strict
regime
when
it
comes
to
food.
In
fact
most
of
us
actually
believe
that
all
the
players
are
like
Novak
Djokovic
and
do
not
venture
outside
the
diets
prescribed
by
their
dieticians.
I
too
was
a
part
of
that
club,
only
to
get
a
rather
pleasant
surprise
when
I
found
out
about
the
diets
of
certain
superb
players.
While
some
of
them
are
a
bit
unusual,
others
are
like
poison
for
any
upcoming
stars.
Here
is
a
list
of
5
of
the
most
unusual
tennis
diets
of
our
favourite
players.
Patty
Schnyder
Obsessed
with
Orange
Juice?
Former
World
No.7
Patty
Schnyder
was
part
of
a
golden
generation
from
Switzerland
that
started
from
Martina
Hingis
and
is
still
carrying
on
with
Roger
Federer
and
Stanislas
Wawrinka.
The
Swiss
Miss
had
buckets
of
potential,
but
seemed
to
have
other
things
on
at
all
times.
Patty
was
followed
by
the
media
wherever
she
went,
and
fell
in
love
with
a
middle-aged
man
who
called
himself
a
“natural
therapist”
and
claimed
to
have
found
the
perfect
solution
for
her
to
become
the
new
no.1.
His
suggestion
to
Schnyder
was
she
turned
into
a
vegetarian
and
had
a
lot
of
orange
juice.
The
same
natural
therapist
also
claimed
to
have
found
the
cure
for
AIDS,
so
one
can
imagine
why
the
OD
on
OJ
didn’t
quite
pan
out
as
expected.
Suzanne
Lenglen’s
drinking
Legendary
Frenchwoman
Suzanne
Lenglen
was
a
bit
of
a
rebel
back
in
the
day
when
women
wore
corsets
on
court,
Lenglen
refused
to
do
so.
In
fact
Suzanne
even
flashed
a
bit
of
ankle
every
now
and
then
which
was
also
something
of
a
stigma
at
the
time.
Nonetheless,
the
cherry
on
the
cake
was
her
DRINKING
on
court.
Yes,
Lenglen
used
to
carry
a
brandy
flask
with
her