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Should Tennis Players Get Ranking-Protected Mental Health Breaks?

In this week's mailbag, we look at the recent promising performances from American men and ask how much tennis coaches earn.

Here’s a column on Osaka. Cliffs notes: I have all sorts of empathy here. But maybe Osaka isn’t cut out for the sports workplace right now. Which is fine. It’s dishonest to turn this into a culture war referendum on softness and entitlement and snowflakery. But it’s also dishonest to portray Saturday’s scene as unbridled heroism and pretend that there’s not something troubling going on here, a mental health issue concern, that still needs addressing—probably away from tennis.