Selwyn Duke ——Bio and Archives--December 30, 2025

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In case you didn’t hear about it, and you might not have given that the outcome wasn’t media-narrative friendly, there was another tennis “Battle of the Sexes” Sunday. And, boy, it was not a good night for feminism and the “transgender” agenda.

Aryna Sabalenka, a Belarusian and currently the world’s number one female player, took on notorious Australian tennis bad boy Nick Kyrgios in the United Arab Emirates. Kyrgios, currently 671 in the men’s rankings, has been largely absent from competitive ATP singles tennis for more than 2½ years due to injuries and surgeries. But they were the least of his handicaps in the match.

Both players were restricted to just one serve to eliminate Krygios’s main weapon: His sound-barrier shattering first serve. The court on Sabalenka’s side was also 17 percent smaller in area--it looked as if it was cotton and accidentally washed with hot water--to compensate for the men’s greater foot speed and court coverage. (This handicap’s difficulty is underappreciated, though I won’t elaborate here. I’m a long-retired tennis professional, by the way, so........

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