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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Zeynab Mohamed

I'm A Black Woman Who Felt Sport Wasn't For Me - But Tennis Clubs Created Space In An Often Elitist World

Women in sport .

I can count on one hand the number of sports groups I’ve taken part in in my lifetime. Most of them were part of our mandatory school P.E lessons, and you can bet that I tried all the usual tricks to get out of them.

For years, I’ve avoided group physical activities, especially the kind that involved coordination, competitiveness, and any kind of balls. It just wasn’t for me - I felt out of place and unwelcome.

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