British men don't play tennis
Here's a list of countries with tennis players in the world's top 200 men.
... and we haven't got to Britain yet, because there's only one.
As you can see from the list, it isn't difficult to get players onto it. Argentina has 14, the Czech Republic has 7 and Belgium has 6. All it takes is young men who want to play tennis. So no wonder that Sport England is reining back its tennis funding. Tennis is far from being a poor or unintelligent sport and yet its national organisers have failed for many years to find any workable strategy to improve talent participation. If our boys don't want to play tennis, we can't force them, even with money, so let's give the money to other sports.
France 19
Germany 18
Spain 18
USA 18
Argentina 14
Russia 8
Czech Rep 7
Italy 7
Australia 6
Belgium 6
Japan 5
Serbia 5
Ukraine 5
Brazil 4
Croatia 4
Netherlands 4
Canada 3
Colombia 3
Kazakhstan 3
Poland 3
Romania 3
Slovakia 3
Slovenia 3
Switzerland 3
Austria 2
Chile 2
China 2
Portugal 2
South Africa 2
Taiwan 2
Uzbekistan 2
... and we haven't got to Britain yet, because there's only one.
As you can see from the list, it isn't difficult to get players onto it. Argentina has 14, the Czech Republic has 7 and Belgium has 6. All it takes is young men who want to play tennis. So no wonder that Sport England is reining back its tennis funding. Tennis is far from being a poor or unintelligent sport and yet its national organisers have failed for many years to find any workable strategy to improve talent participation. If our boys don't want to play tennis, we can't force them, even with money, so let's give the money to other sports.
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