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There they were, spread across the practice courts on the afternoon before Wimbledon begins: past Grand Slam champions or former No. 1s - Novak Djokovic, Stan Wawrinka, Petra Kvitova, Caroline Wozniacki - and some who aspire to such heights - Eugenie Bouchard, Milos Raonic, Ernests Gulbis. Djokovic, the 2011 winner at the All England Club and last year's runner-up to Andy Murray, teasingly challenged Wozniacki to hit a serve into a white plastic bag he was holding (she missed, then joked about ''too much pressure.'') Kvitova tested her heavily wrapped upper right leg. Notably absent was 2013 champion Marion Bartoli, the first woman in 17 years who declined to try to defend her Wimbledon title.
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