Daily Bagel: Brush up on your tennis vocabulary ahead of the French Open

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The Daily Bagel is your dose of the interesting reporting, writing and quipping from around the Internet.

• Video: Highlights from yesterday's draw ceremony with Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams.

• Stop what you're doing and read Grantland's Brian Phillips "Tennis Dictionary". An example:

Hawk-Eye (n.) — A cutting-edge computer system that can determine precisely where a ball has landed by modeling tens of thousands of possible trajectories and selecting the one that makes Roger Federer look stupid.

• According to Fox Sports Australia, Rafael Nadal isn't the best clay court player ever. So who is?

• GIF: Stan Wawrinka follows Roger Federer's footsteps and upgrades to a larger racket.

• A nice roundup of WTA players hitting the French Open player party last night.

• The ITF posted a report on its finances.

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Published May 24, 2014 | Modified May 24, 2014

COURTNEY NGUYEN

Contributor, SI.com Nguyen is a freelance writer for SI.com, providing full coverage of professional tennis both on and off the court. Her content has become a must-read for fans and insiders to stay up-to-date with a sport that rarely rests. She has appeared on radio and TV talk shows all over the world and is one of the co-hosts of No Challenges Remaining, a weekly podcast available on iTunes. Nguyen graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received a law degree from the University of California, Davis in 2002. She lives in the Bay Area.

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