“Richard Krajicek, a six-foot-five-inch Dutchman, ...wears
a tiny white billed hat in the sun and rushes the net like it owes him money
and in general plays like a rabid crane.” —David Foster Wallace, “The String Theory,” Esquire, July 1996
Well, Krajicek won at Wimbledon that year, didn’t
he? So I guess something in his
method must have worked.
Still, quite a description of an athlete—and probably
part of the reason why Wallace remains a major reader favorite nearly eight years after his
tragic suicide.
(Photo of Richard
Krajicek taken at Aegon International Tennis Eastbourne, June 2011, by Andrew
Campbell.)
