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A Union in Professional Tennis |
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Written by Lloydich
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Thursday, 19 November 2009 15:24 |
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I've been watching pro tennis my whole life - both in person and on TV, I'm 68 - and I know that the players are very different animals from golf players, to take the most relevant alternate example. (My game peaked when I was 13.) Tennis players have a limited ability to make the big bucks, they age monetarily that is. And tennis is already an international sport, not an American one trying to conquer other nations like golf. Then there's the dream - that any sport could become "the moral equivalent (replacement) of war" - in the words of GB Shaw I think. Imagine my surprise when I realized, deeply, that the ATP is a "union". But its members have no say over how many tournys they must play to qualify for this or that, much less over the eye in the sky versus line calling. Etc etc. Actually all sports in America are dominated by the people who PRESENT the sport on TV, and some weeks I'm depressed to think those who own tennis are actually helping the sport versus some weeks when I'm elated to think no, they're just corporate idiots and they're RUINING the sport. Doubtless the reality is somewhere in between. The facts are, tennis could be carried only on TV and still make millions; and people would no more desert "striking" tennis players than they deserted striking baseball players in the 1970's. The forking tennis players just have to get together and stop listening to the Travel-to-Beautiful-Monte-Carlo-and-Rule-the-World-Like-the-Other-Most-Blessed-Humans-Do thing. I'll shut up now, this is my first post at Peace Ring, so: Peace, Lloyd |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:56 |
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