@BCBacker I’m grateful for everything you do. For your honesty, transparency, and the little windows you give us into your personal world that you do not owe us a peak into. Thank you for what you do. Ignore the noise.
“Whether in the Palisades or in Palestine…”
Phenomenal message by Dave Chappelle on SNL.
It takes a lot to do this on live tv in this climate. Thank you brother Dave.
@BCBacker Mark Moss says that in the previous cut times, the economy was already showing recessionary signals that it’s not exhibiting this time. Thoughts?
Novak Djokovic says tennis is endangered at the club level, ‘If we don’t do something about it globally, they’re gonna convert all the tennis clubs into paddle or pickleball’
“In terms of innovation in our sport… other than Slams, we have to figure out how to attract a young audience. Tennis on one hand is in a good place, but at the same time, when we look at Formula 1 for example and what they’ve done in terms of marketing, in terms of growth of the sport, in terms of the races around the world and how popular they are.. I think we need to do a better job on our respective tours. The grand slams are always gonna do well. But I think our tours need to do better. We are lucky to be very historic and a very global sport. But I think one of the studies that was done by PTPA 3 or 4 years ago showed that tennis is the 3rd or 4th most watched sport in the world along with cricket. Number 1 is football or soccer as you call it in the states. Second is basketball. Then it’s tennis and cricket. But tennis is number 9 or 10 on the list of all sports in terms of using its popularity, commercializing or capitalizing on that. I think there’s a huge space for growth. We’re quite fractioned as a sport. There are quite a bit of things for us to collectively look at and try to improve it. We need to grow the number of players that live from this sport. Very rarely do I see in the media that you guys are writing about the fact that you have only 350 to 400 players both men, women, singles, doubles across the board that live from this sport on this planet. That’s deeply concerning for me. Yes, we talk about the grand slam winner wins this or that. The focus is always on the grand prize but what about the base level? We’re still doing a very poor job there… very poor job. Tennis is a very global sport and it’s loved by millions of children that pick up a racquet that wanna play, but we don’t make it accessible. We don’t make it so affordable. Especially in countries like mine that doesn’t have a strong federation, that has Grand Slam or history or big budgets.. so I think collectively we all have to come together or create a new foundation, a corner stone of really what tennis is about.. which is the base level. The club level. Now we have paddle that is growing and emerging. People kind of have fun with it and say ‘Yeah but tennis is tennis. Tennis is the king or queen of all racquet sports.’ That’s true. But on a club level, tennis is endangered. If we don’t do something about it, globally or collectively, paddle, pickleball in the states, they’re gonna convert all the tennis clubs into paddle and pickleball. Because it’s more economical. You have one tennis court… you can build 3 paddle courts on one tennis court. Do the simple math. It’s just much more financially viable for the owner of the club to have those courts. These are some of the things I wanted to share. In the grand scheme of things, we need to address all these challenges and issues. Because they’ve been out there for a while. I don’t think we’ve been addressing it in the proper way.”
(via Wimbledon Press)
@JohnAlanWoods Watching the brand and marketing efforts unfold as a supporter of Algorand since 2021 has been a pleasure to see. Keep up the good work John and the team. Can’t wait to see what the next 5-10 years looks like.
@JohnAlanWoods Now that I had no idea about. I’m still a newbie in the dev-tracking game. Personally, I think Python is THE game changer to everything. Wishing you all the very best sir.
@JohnAlanWoods Electric Capital’s Developer Report. Here’s a link to one of the slides. (Just to be clear I’m a HUGE fan of Algorand and of you John). These are just questions.
https://t.co/XTjb9ZOIjY
@aaronbennett Ask someone who committed suicide over the catastrophe of this greed-whore if they’d rather have been physically assaulted. Oh wait. Can’t.