If you're from a reasonably well-to-do family, with connexions, in a Slam country like the US, Australia, the UK or France, you have a system you can draw upon a system of tournaments within driving distance with fairly cheap accomodations. ... ... and a system where ITF and ATP/WTA tournaments support each other with reciprocal jacksocks. I use 'jacksocks' as a term for wild cards. Older tennis fans will understand why, and how it's illustrative.

An 'invented fact' isn't a fact. It's an invention. Facts are facts. And taking facts and diverting them to fit an agenda you can sell is, wait for it, taking facts and diverting them to fit an agenda you can sell. If you poke fans =bear, get poked, despite the 'don't poke the bear' signs, don't act surprised if you get mauled and blame the bear.

Super interesting piece in l'Équipe on how men's tennis is on the brink of implosion and open warfare between Slams, the ITF and the ATP (sub only) - I'll try and translate what I think is most interesting - Tennis abonnes.lequipe.fr/Tennis/Article… "According to our information, the 3 million (US millions, milliard or thousand millions in the rest of the world) from promised by Piqué are only guaranteed up to 52 million. ... worrying."