INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — With an overstuffed calendar and heavyweight competition from other global sports, the last thing professional tennis needs is two similar men’s team events within a few weeks of each other.
“Agreed,” said David Haggerty, the president of the International Tennis Federation.
Yet there have been indications here in Indian Wells and elsewhere that this is exactly where this great but too-often divided game is heading.
Surely not even tennis can be this clueless.
But big money and the survival instinct are powerful forces. Both are in play when it comes to the Davis Cup and the would-be World Team Cup.