Anti-tennis

Does it surprise anyone else at the fervor of anti-rowing sentiment at many colleges and schools? What's the deal? Jealousy? Are there anti-tennis or anti-baseball pages? People who are passionate about disliking lacrosse?

In some areas, tennis fans have struggled to find places to play, discovering their long-held courts suddenly transformed into pickleball havens either temporarily or permanently. It hasn’t helped that some especially avid pickleball fans proudly proclaim that their sport will soon overtake tennis and eagerly boast anti-tennis sportswear.

Those of you who are perverse enough to have read along so far are my kind of folks, so you’ll know what I mean when I say that at this point, I thought, Cool. Each guy has played a set of anti-tennis and gotten the demons out of his system. So it’s like, okay, I’ve got an idea!

[Novak] Djokovic, by contrast, plays something like anti-tennis. Although he’s recently improved his serve and his volleys and possesses one of the best drop shots in the game, he is fundamentally a conservative, defensive player.