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Irritability. Discontent. Unrest.
The tennis world is full of all of those, and that’s just over the rules governing timeouts and treatment for cramping in extreme heat.
A bigger battle, however, is being fought off-court as what, at least in theory, is looming as the biggest labour battle in the sport since the boycott of Wimbledon in 1973 by many top players over the exclusion of Yugoslav star Nikki Pilic from The Championships.
That was about the Yugoslavia federation suspending Pilic, its No. 1 player, for allegedly declining to play a Davis Cup match. But it was really about a growing rift between authorities in the sport and the arbitrary nature of the way in which it was governed.
Fast forward 39 years and the central issue remains the...
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