Jack Sock Research Paper

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Jack Sock is a professional tennis player, one of the top ranked U.S. players in both singles and doubles, and participated in the 2016 Rio Olympics. He started his junior career in October of 2008 at the age of 16, and continued into his professional career in November of 2009. He began his Olympic 2016 season with the Hopman Cup into the Auckland Open all the way to Rio.

Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Sock started his career in tennis early. In the fall of 2003, Sock made national headlines for topping the United States Tennis Association’s “12-and-under” boys national standing list. Not only was he the first tennis player in Lincoln to win a national championship, he won four of them. Following his victories at the age of 12, he moved to

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