The concept of a tennis team has always been a little strange to me. Tennis is traditionally a singular sport, unless you play doubles, but that doesn’t really pay. If I were to play any sport, in fact, it would be tennis because I’ve never been very good at team sports. I learned that in my high school and middle school P.E. classes. I have my parents to thank because tennis isn’t cheap.
Yet, the concept of being on a tennis team is a strange dynamic because you are both competing with your teammates for spots, but also against other teams. Your relationship with your teammates, while warm, is also deceitful because they have the opportunity to gain what you covet. There’s both an internal and external zero-sum game, and so it’s a complex relationship. Which game are you choosing to focus on?
I don’t have that many close openly gay male friends, but I imagine it’s a similar situation to what I see on social media when you get a bunch of gay men in a friend group. I wonder if marriage solves that problem or not?
The Ivory Tower 
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