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Japanese ritual suicide, popularly known as hara-kiri.
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He might wear his baseball cap back to front and sport the demeanour of a Californian beach bum, but he worked out that his initial tactics of playing to the Murray backhand was the tennis version of hari-kiri.
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I wondered if I'd committed professional hari-kiri by entering a reality TV show, but it was too good an opportunity to miss," he laughs.
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Put the two ultra-competitive attention-seekers in the same studio, surround them with people who believe they are geniuses, and the pair were always en route to committing career hari-kiri.
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