It is encouraging and correct that tennis players are prepared to comment on issues from homosexuality to sexual harassment, and occasionally politics. Sport doesn’t have to exist in a vacuum. It is not that their opinions matter more than those of everyone else but it is good to know they are not Daleks.
Maybe other sports will follow the example of Andy Murray and others who have spoken out here this week, for instance, about Margaret Court’s antediluvian outrage over gay marriage.
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