We’re entertaining you, whether you like it or not | GregBaum
It is one thing to provide entertainment, another to inflict it. Tennis appears to be the latest sport to confuse the two.
Implicit in this attitude is a self-serving assumption that those who watch tennis in absorbed silence are not enjoying it. They need the Ks to force enjoyment upon them.Nick Kyrgios and a new trick shot?Nick Kyrgios taunts an opponent, enjoining the crowd to join him in the taunting. Kyrgios dissents an umpire’s correct call. When the umpire tries to explain, Kyrgios tells him to shut up.
The Ks say they are trying to recreate the Davis Cup aesthetic. But their opponents mostly are scratch pairs. There’s no national pride on the line here, except that they’re trying to make it so. But it’s hard to stick up two countries at once and look like you mean it. The Ks are not popularising doubles, they’re making it topical for a moment. Next year, if either gets a bit of a run going in singles, they may not pair up at all.
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