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Tennis: A Sport Apart in a Fractured World
What does the term ‘football’ mean to you? If you hail from much of Ireland it refers to Gaelic Football while to those that call the USA home it denotes ‘American Football’ (the ‘foot’ syllable as redundant as the asinine war-paint the players insist on). Things are just as blurred Down-Under, Rugby League being synonymous with the term in NSW and Queensland while the rest of the country reserve it for the more obviously antipodean Australian Rules Football. Most ubiquitous of all, across vast swathes of the globe it refers to the game known in the relevant vernacular as futbal. Or calcio. Or, of course, soccer. Evidently, while we are…