The fall out from the Adria Tour coronavirus cluster took an unexpected trip to the dance floor within a week later, with video surfacing of Alexander Zverev partying in Monte Carlo just days after being repeatedly exposed to the disease (and promising to follow health protocols) enraging people around the sport in tennis and severely damaging trust in tennis players.
To discuss the ramifications, and the notions of a code of conduct, Ben is joined by NCR's Middle East correspondent Reem Abulleil (please do support her Patreon as well!) to talk about what the tours can and can't do, the corrosive effects of selfishness in tennis, and more.
Should tennis continue on without putting super rigid restrictions on personnel behavior in place? And if tennis has to do so much in a pandemic that it stops being fun, should it just stop all together? Big, bleak conversations are had here, but we also had a lot of fun.
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Episode 292: Australian Open 2021 Draw Show
Episode 291: Stefanos Tsitsipas
Episode 290: The Complaint Department (with Reem Abulleil)
Episode 289: Locked Inside, with Taro Daniel
Episode 288: Remembering Tom Perrotta
Episode 287: Working in Tennis (With Katie Spellman)
Episode 286b: Remember When? 2020, Part 2
Episode 286a: Remember When? 2020, Part 1
Episode 285b: A 2021 Roundtable, Part 2
Episode 285a: A 2021 Roundtable, Part 1
Episode 284: What's Up Down Under: Australian Open 2021 Outlook
Episode 283: The Year in Men's Tennis (with Ricky Dimon)
Episode 282: Catching Up (With Courtney!)
Episode 281: A Woman Speaks Out; Tennis Stays Silent
Episode 280: A Bit on Bubbles
Episode 279: Does Tennis Love You Back? (With Jessica Luther & Kavitha A. Davidson)
Episode 278: Tennis Channel CEO Ken Solomon
Episode 277o: 2020 French Open Day 15 - Nadal Wins Easy 13th
Episode 277n: 2020 French Open Day 14 - Iga Swiatek Wins Big
Episode 277m: 2020 French Open Day 13 - Final Showdowns
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