How to fix tennis
I’ve always played with ProBlend, a string that’s half Kevlar, half nylon. You can reel in an eight-hundred-pound marlin with ProBlend. It never breaks, never forgives, but also never generates spin. It’s like hitting the ball with a garbage can lid. People talk about the game changing, about players growing more powerful, and rackets getting bigge
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So, while a performance of transcendent music is something deeper than ‘entertainment’, tennis is ultimately darker than entertainment, containing within itself an inherent contradiction and thus continually in thrall to frustration and paranoia.
Elizabeth Wilson • Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon
The Australian Open also doesn’t treat tennis like a fragile museum piece, never to be touched or tweaked because ‘that’s not the way it’s done’, or one of those other haughty phrases the guardians of the game use to rationalize their stodginess.
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So, I think tennis is a very simple thing to me: the Grand Slams could solve the entire problem if they paid, let's say, $100,000 for the first round of qualifying. They have the money, right? So they can pay $100,000 first round of qualies. They don't have to go up like crazy. That will help guys ranked around 250 to make it through the year. The
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