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70 Countries and Counting: On the Tennis Governance Campaign Trail

Ben Solomon for The New York Times

With help from $100,000 of a Wimbledon windfall, Dave Miley has been running for president of the International Tennis Federation, meeting and greeting people around the world and watching the bank balance count down.

“It’s like a taxi ride with the meter going: tick, tick, tick,” Miley said in an interview in New York this month. “My account has gone to 80 to 70 to 60 to 40, but it’s O.K. I’m 60 years old. You think I’m going to be worried about this in 20 years’ time? I’m happy to be alive, and you know what?