The sport of tennis, while eternally one of our favorites, seems to have its hands full these days. The season, which stretches from January through November, is far too long; and the points system, which requires players to play in far more tournaments than their bodies and their psyches can often tolerate, is in need of reform. And while the season essentially peaks with the year’s final Grand Slam—the US Open, which concludes in September—the late-season swing through Asia often finds players running on fumes, if not sidelined by injuries.

Why, then, are six of the game’s top players—Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, Alexander Zverev, Novak Djokovic, Stefanos Tsitsipas, and Taylor Fritz—in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the Six Kings Slam exhibition tournament, which began today? It’s quite s

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