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Old 18 Nov 2020, 01:48 (Ref:4017585)   #1974
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Originally Posted by steve_r View Post
Tennis does not have constantly evolving technology (apologies to any tennis racket engineers out there) and baffling rules and such delicious yet mystifying politics going on in the background. There needs to be someone there to cut through all of this and ask the questions that get to the nub.

Steve Jones does this quite well, I think. But of course the joy of modern TV technology is that when someone doesn't want to listen, they can fast forward through all of that.
Tennis was however bright enough to ban innovations that were ruining the sport, spagetti strung and big headed rackets.
F1, not so much.
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