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NextImg:In some sports, left-handed athletes seem to have an innate advantage
Science & technology | Human biology

In some sports, left-handed athletes seem to have an innate advantage

It is more than just their novelty factor

|2 min read

THE LEFT-HANDED have long struggled in a right-handed world. But they are over-represented in one field: one-to-one sports such as fencing and tennis. The conventional explanation for this is that the scarcity of lefties (around one person in ten), means right-handed athletes lack familiarity with them as opponents. But this may be only part of the story.

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