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Hal and a group of other E.T.A. students are discussing life at the academy and their future prospects. They complain about how much they suffer through the grueling nature of E.T.A’s training regimen, and worry that a professional tennis career will only lead to more suffering. Furthermore, the fact that tennis is an individual sport leaves them feeling isolated from one another. One student, Jim Troeltsch, expresses the view that E.T.A. aims to encourage “autonomical” behavior in students. (“Autonomical” is a neologism that presumably means automatic, mechanical, and robotic.)
The view that being a great athlete involves training oneself to…