In the contrasts between Ash Barty and Nick Kyrgios we see a little of the divisions that rend modern Australian life.
While I’m loathe to use sports stars as moral or ethical exemplars – regarding most of them as ‘knobs’ (a term recently applied to Kyrgios) – sometimes the stars rise above the physical and show us perfections that transcend sport.
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