The Importance of Rivals in Sport

It's the rivalries that make sport, isn't it? So let's say you'd have in tennis, for example, because Wimbledon's going on in Britain at the moment. The last 20 years of men's tennis have been about the three of them and then the others next step down. If I won the tour 10 times, and everyone said it was boring, I wouldn't care. But if I just played like Chelsea, and one, mate, I don't care. It would be the best tour in years,. when it really excitement wise and who's going to win wise.

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