Chasing The Dream: New York Daily News
Every Wednesday, with very rare exceptions, I read Sports Illustrated's Jon Wertheim's tennis mailbag on si.com. He is the perfect expert, with plenty of opinions and the talent to voice them, yet never comes across as mean or self-aggrandizing. The people who send him mail can always be counted on to point out an interesting link or a bizarre tale with tennis at its heart. Not a regular reader of the New York Daily News, I didn't know what to expect when a reader sent Wertheim this link to a Wayne Coffey story about 18-year-old Evgeniya Kim, who plays no. 1 on the Hunter College women's tennis team.
It turns out to be an inspiring story about her family's perseverance after heartbreaking setbacks in their immigration to the United States from Uzbekistan. Reading it will give you an appreciation of what many of us take for granted.
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