Fourteen-year-old tennis player powers past older players at Show-Me State Games

Saturday, July 30, 2011 | 9:39 p.m. CDT; updated 5:25 p.m. CDT, Sunday, July 31, 2011

COLUMBIA — Alyssa Williams has a strategy to compensate for playing tennis against girls as much as four years older than her. It starts with hitting the ball hard. There doesn’t really need to be much more to it than that.

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