Tennis' New Deal
It's almost too funny. Tennis has always taken yes-men types from the country club world and put them "in charge." As if these types of people ever ran into a rule they did not run around themselves. Now it is 2024 and we find that despite not having all the Grand Slams on the same page, everyone got together on burying Jannick Sinner's failed drug tests as they begged for investment from the Saudis. For a lot of people, the influence of Roger, Rafa and Novak is enough to declare the ATP a player's league. But just which players we're talking about really came to the forefront when Nick Kyrgios was not defaulted at Wimbledon while yelling and screaming at Stefanos Tsistsipas. It was clear that the tournament itself had made a calculation that Nick could do whatever he wanted. The "calculation" on the popularity of Kyrgios is an ongoing thing. He isn't playing, but he is still showing up everywhere, sans any kind of world ranking at all. At ...