Ajla Tomljanović vs America

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Margaret court has achieved things no one else has and did it in an era that contained greats such as evonne goolagong,  Billie jean king, and Martina Navratilova.  She held the title of all 4 grand slams in one calender year twice during her career.

Not really any overlap between Court and Navratilova, one was semi-retired playing only doubles when the other was just starting out.

It could be argued the off-court platitudes are as a result of on-court success, but the wokism seems to disregard this, they are either unable or unwilling to separate emotion from politics, cancel culture is exactly as the term suggests. In reality it's a form of collective rock throwing.

But fans perhaps should not justify the off-court behaviour of some, Court, Joker, Connors, etc al, using their on-court success as an excuse. The criticisms and sanctions are not related to what happens on court.

FWIW, I see the same applying to Goodes, in a case where his means(behaviour) cannot be justified away by the ends no matter how good the intentions. By some weird logic, those criticisms are somehow turned by boosters into an ad-hominem attack on Goodes, or even more weirdly support for racists or bigots, but of course that is not true either, it's just another form of extremism.

That saying about heading far enough right or left only to end up back in the middle was never truer than right at this moment in time.