China Open 2025: When Tennis Met Geopolitics and Everyone Lost (Except the Sponsors)
BEIJING—When the gates of the repurposed National Speed-skating Oval swing open on 28 September 2025 for the China Open, the planet will do what it always does: pretend tennis is merely sport. The truth is messier. What happens inside the “Ice Ribbon” (now mercifully de-iced and re-grassed) is a Rorschach test for the 21st-century condition—equal…