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By Scoop Malinowski

I have never pursued trying to analyze dreams but a recent spate of wacky dreams involving tennis has aroused my curiosity on the subject.

Last week I actually had a dream that I was doing a Biofile phone interview with Gabriela Sabatini. It’s puzzling why I could possibly have a dream about Sabatini who is a player I have never met or interviewed and who I don’t think about at all. The only memories I have about Sabatini are that she won the US Open on a controversial match point against Steffi Graf and that she was the only WTA player to vote for Monica Seles to retain her frozen ranking of No. 1 after missing the two years because of being stabbed by that German lunatic. Oh, wait, there’s one other memory. I once did a Biofile in about 1994 with former baseball star Andy Van Slyke who had a funny answer when I asked him his favorite athletes to watch? “Gabriela Sabatini. She’s my girlfriend. But she doesn’t know it.”

So having a dream about interviewing Sabatini on the phone was odd, as most of our dreams are. But the other recent tennis dream I had was even weirder.

The week before I was about to publish “Facing McEnroe” I had a bizarre dream about the book. Somebody heard about the book and had contacted me to say they had a story that reinforces the anecdote Mats Wilander told me about McEnroe in the book. It had something to do with a trophy ceremony with McEnroe and a low-flying airplane during the award presentation.

The only thing I can say about this dream is that it must mean that I really love my work so much that I even have dreams about it at night.

Maybe I should try to do a Biofile with Sabatini before the year is out and Lord knows what kind of dreams I’m going to have as I begin work on my eighth book which will be “Facing Andy Murray.”

(Gabriela Sabatini water color by LeRoy Neiman.)

Have you ever dreamt about tennis?

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