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Podcast: The Body Serve
Episode: Gatekeeping Tennis
Description: Tennis is a famously exclusive sport. So which forces and institutions determine who gets access? Whoâs guarding the gates, and whatâs the criteria for entry? In this episode, which is co-produced by Sheriece Matias Dick, we start to explore the barriers to entering tennis, the various paths into the sport, and how the gatekeeping institutions of tennis have jockeyed for power through the profound economic and cultural changes of the past 140 years. After exploring a few playersâ journeys into pro tennis, we look into the founding ethos of the sport -- âgentlemanly amateurismâ -- and how that obsession...