As the tragic news of professional tennis player Mathieu Montcourt’s death circulates, his as of yet unexplained death unearths a certain shameful side to the modern world of tennis. Montcourt’s body was found in his Paris apartment on Monday by his girlfriend and an autopsy is expected to be carried out as soon as possible. [...]

In the eyes of many tennis fans around the world, the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club is a backward-thinking organization hopelessly attached to an outdated past. The idea that no tennis should be played on the “Middle Sunday” of the Wimbledon fortnight strikes your typical sports nut as absurd. Sunday, after all, is [...]