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★★★★★ Night Tennis
The blossoms are out, which means that it’s time to start planning a hot weather activity to base your entire summer personality off. Will you be reading Edith Wharton at Fitzroy Pool? Will you make a surf club for male lesbians? Who knows: perhaps you will even consider joining a Warrandyte polycule, with whom you will take regular nude dips in the e-coli-riddled Yarra. These are all good options. Your editors, though, have decided that this is the summer of tennis. We’ve settled on the outfits: Miu Miu’s box-pleat mini (or Savers-sourced rip-off), Dunlop Volleys, matching Lacoste polo and sweatbands. We’re also watching instructional tennis videos on YouTube to improve our lobs and drop shots. The only foreseeable hitch is that this summer is predicted to be a hot one. Like, hellishly so. We want to play, but we don’t want to get too sweaty.
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