The standard suspects aren’t liable for the newest hit job on tennis.
Pickleball, Padel, Pop, Netflix, Video video games and Social media are sometimes cited as the best threats to tennis’ well being and progress.
Look somewhat nearer and ask your self if we’re watching pleasant fireplace.
Is tennis killing tennis?
Could possibly be.
Are our sport’s deepest wounds self-inflicted?
Everyone knows the frequent causes: greed, lack of transparency, minimized advertising and marketing and promotion and shutting our sport’s supporters out whereas pickleball embraces all.
Tennis doesn’t assist itself turning away media, which in turns provides free promotion for the match and its title sponsors producing buzz for each.
This occasion’s excuse: it’s an area difficulty.
Response: effective, we’ll make do minus a piece station.
Reply: Sorry, No. And no appeals.
So a lot of our readers questioned why we didn’t point out a hard-court match final week?
Easy.
We’re on a boycott. no exhausting emotions right here. We didn’t apply for a media credential. Nonetheless, we all know many necessary tennis information retailers, accredited to majors, which have spent 10-plus years masking this match solely to be shut out this yr.
By the best way, writers get subsequent to nothing for grinding out match tales 10 to fifteen hours a day. For many, it’s a labor of affection.
The occasion in query not solely denied credentials to many long-time journalists, it additionally gave Zero meals allowance to media offering day by day protection and no parking allowance both charging $40 day by day for parking.
How can a match promote tennis by primarily shutting out media?
How can tennis develop by repeatedly limiting its personal viewers with crackpot selections?
So the following time you hear the same old suspects: pickleball, Padel, Netflix, Video Video games, Social Media cited as the largest threats to tennis well being within the U.S. don’t imagine the spin.
Don’t blink.
The hitman is right here, however we gained’t run for canopy.
Is tennis killing tennis?
You be the choose.
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