Wimbledon 2021: Can British tennis shake off unwanted tag of being ‘too white, male and posh’?
I walk onto the tennis court in my Jordans and basketball shirt “Tennis is an elitist sport. The majority of people involved are white and the majority are white men.” This view from Miles Daley, a 28-year-old black tennis coach from Hackney, is one held by many people in Britain. The statistics provided by the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), the sport’s governing body, reinforce some of those opinions. The LTA says it recognises the need to make tennis more representative of British communities and, having recently published its inclusion strategy, wants to still do more to...
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