At a Weird Wimbledon, David Beckham’s Suit Was the Only Good Serve

How did it come to this? In a sport as heavily sedated as tennis, the final saw a man who steadfastly refuses the Covid vaccine take on the human equivalent of a Mentos in a Coke bottle recently accused of assaulting an ex-girlfriend. Not since the heady days of John McEnroe has the sport seen this sort of inflammation. And Wimbledon, the tennis-iest of all the conservative tennis tournaments, sheds a tear if its player don’t wear all white. This sort of transgression then is just beyond the pale for hand-wringing officials that still call former school pals by their surname. Read more at Esquire.