As someone who isn’t a particularly fervent fan of even real tennis matches, I find fictional ones pleasantly untaxing.

Open runner-up, has not played a real tennis match since January, so she was thrilled when a partial schedule was released for the sport’s true return after its coronavirus-forced hiatus.

“I was more nervous there than any of my real tennis matches,” Fritz said.

Then again, none of this has anything at all to do with real tennis, of course.

I met my wife Claire at a real tennis event – she was a highly regarded up-and-coming player and has been the women’s world champion for nine years.