Love team tennis. United Cup, Davis Cup, & Laver Cup. Even BJKC, at times.
The pressure of playing for team / country is a different kind of intangible stakes. A more overt form of soft power. A person's ability to
rise and represent matters. In general and in terms of the HoF. They look at that metric when voting.
Team tennis requires mental toughness & clutch play. As such, it often shows who is truly in form, who isn't, & who can find it when they need it most. Team tennis also serves as a harbinger for younger, emerging stars finding a new level of form.
Williams sisters gold medals aside, the Olympics, for me, are more about watching all the other truly niche sports I don't typically see. I still don't know where to watch fencing, speed climbing, or water polo. Apparently, volleyball has a
subscription platform like tennis, but the price was
more than TC, so I passed.
2024 Paris Olympics were great! Thanks to the women, USA did
very well, so there was
a lot for me to watch. As for tennis, Shelton wasn't playing and it was on clay which is a very rare OG occurrence, so I
barely watched.