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VIDEO: Self-Taught Player Becoming a Tennis Standout
Patty Korkowski's unconventional style has worked for the last 30 years.
Patty Korkowski is the first to admit that she doesn’t have a classic tennis form. She swings at the ball with unconventional strokes. Yet that can also work to her advantage when opponents don’t know where her shots are headed—as occasionally happened at this weekend's in Fridley.
Korkowski started playing tennis with her sister and never took any lessons. Yet her ranking has climbed in the 30 years she’s been playing. She played in nationals in 2010. After this past summer, her U.S. Tennis Association rating climbed from 4.0 to 4.5.
She now plays in two leagues and is a captain in one of them.
