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Bobby Reynolds has played in tennis tournaments, including Grand Slam events, that have taken him from Canada to Australia. But one of his most enduring travel memories came on a trip to Asia, when he first saw the Great Wall of China. "There was one day we had off between matches," Reynolds, 29, recalls of the 2008 visit. "We spent two or three hours walking it. It was amazing to see." Reynolds first took to the professional tennis circuit in the summer of 2003, leaving Vanderbilt University after his junior year. Since then, he has received an education of a different sort, forging bonds with strangers who have become like family, seeing new places and learning to live out of a suitcase 28 weeks or more a year. "I've been able to see so many sights around the world that I don't think I would have ever gotten the chance to see without playing tennis," he says. "Also (there are) so many people either you met at tournaments or who have taken you in," he says of the families who...