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Originally Posted by bk400
Love these cross sports debates! I beg to differ on tennis. It's fundamentally a (relatively) rich person's sport, which means that the athletic funnel is definitionally narrow. There are probably 1,000 rejects from the Premier League who have a superior athletic base than any tennis player in the history of the sport.
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That doesn't mean it's not the hardest game. Being able to play it and it being a very high skill cap doesn't correlate at all imo. Sure maybe some poor kid in Tanzania might be the best tennis player of all time, and we will never see them play. But there's another kid in the middle of siberia who is 99% as good. The game would still be at an unimaginable difficulty.
The exact same can be said with other sports.