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Topic subjectThis is true...but in tennis she has a unique level of agency.
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13434101, This is true...but in tennis she has a unique level of agency.
Posted by soulfunk, Tue Jun-01-21 07:32 AM
In the major sports leagues like the NBA, NFL, etc. the media interviews are directly tied to their salaries since they are employees of their team, and their contracts with those teams require media access. The leagues have huge contracts with the media networks paying billions of dollars for broadcast rights, including access to the players in those contracts.

In tennis though, she can pick and choose what tournaments she wants to enter, and if she specifically has an issues with the French media, she could just not play there. She's lose out on the potential money from the French Open, along with the prestige/ranking impact of missing one of the four majors, but she can still make millions from all of the other tourneys she enters - without dealing with the stress of the French media. On the other hand, in the NBA a player can't opt out of playing in Boston to avoid the Boston media.