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If they hammered two posts into the grass on the baselines and chained each player to those posts, you'd have essentially the same result.
That a man with so little range to his game could be ranked in the top 32 and make more than a million dollars a year is an indictment of the sport.
This was not admirable, or exciting, or aesthetic, or representative of the sport. Any more than a cheap, plastic snow globe represents the beauty of Salisbury Cathedral.
They should put a giant asterisk over the entire tennis record book today. There were no winners, and the only losers were the poor fans who are sadly deluded if they think they endured eleven hours of history.
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