Wimbledon Tournament Begins with, You Guessed It, Controversy

The 2022 Wimbledon tennis tournament began yesterday with the first round of play. It's one of four Grand Slam tournaments in professional tennis...Rafael Nadal won the men's singles in the Australian and French Opens earlier this year while Ashleigh Barty (now retired) won the women's Australian Open and Iga Swiatek the French.  Although Nadal is still in the running for a Grand Slams sweep, he has chronic foot pain and Novak Djokovic is in the Wimbledon tournament, having dominated it in recent years.  Djokovic was banned from the Australian Open earlier this year because he refused to get a Covid-19 vaccine.  Now the controversy at Wimbledon lies with players from Russia and Belarus, mainly Daniil Medvedev and Aryna Sabalenka, banned from participation due to those countries' brutal invasion of Ukraine.  As for me, I'd just like to see the best players out there playing each other in their best physical form without regard to their national origins...not gonna happen, though.  Yesterday I enjoyed watching Djokovic play and defeat Kwon Swon-woo in the first round.  Roger Federer is still out recovering from his knee injury, but Serena Williams is in it with a match today...hooray!  ESPN and ABC are covering Wimbledon...which should be a marked improvement in television coverage after NBC relegated most of the French Open action last month to its premium Peacock channel: what a rip-off that was!  I don't plan to spend my time 24/7 watching tennis, but I do tend to have my mornings open and that's when a lot of the live play is going on. Should be fun...