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| | The Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame |
 | | Grand Island's Jimmy Arias, a tennis prodigy in his youth, evolved into perhaps the rarest of all athletic phenomena; a child star who, instead of "achieving" burnout by his teens, developed into the type of player his early talent predicted. |
 | | Jimmy's father, Antonio, realized that his son's career had reached a cross-road, and that that career could progress only if Jimmy left Buffalo in search of world-class competition. |
 | | Throughout his career, Jimmy was sustained by a mental toughness often noted by contemporaries, the same discipline which allowed him to maintain perspective as a child star in the midst of adulation. |
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