dirt-baller
n.— «Still, long gone is the time when anyone could suggest that Nadal was a clay-court specialist, what some Americans call “a dirt-baller.”» —“Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer win in Monaco” by Mark Hodgkinson in Monte Carlo Telegraph (United Kingdom) Apr. 15, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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