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Originally Posted by Keeping It Simple
Tennis in the UK is a steaming heap of shit because of it's class prejudice. We get the occasional half-decent player, like Andy Murray, but on the whole, the UK is a laughing stock. If you want to join a tennis club in the UK, you have to be at least middle class. It's that odious snobby attitude that's been stultifying the UK's chances of winning any major tennis tournaments for decades.
The painful irony of it is the last great British tennis player was Fred Perry, a working class lad from Stockport. He's one of only six men in history to have won all four Grand Slam events. He was the World No.1 player for five years. Some consider him to have been one of the greatest male players to have ever played the game. It pains me to think that if Fred Perry was alive today, his working class roots would've prevented him from being admitted to a tennis club. That's why I hate tennis in the UK SO much.
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It's true that tennis in the uk is an overwhelmingly middle class sport. However I don't believe that a working class player would be prevented from joining any decent tennis club here just because of their class. Britain's working classes don't play tennis largely because
they've managed to convince
themselves that it isn't for them.