Novak Djokovic Failed to Put Tennis on a PR High This Weekend

He's a real buzzkill.

Men’s professional tennis gets mediocre ratings when compared to the other professional sports out there. Recently, a Harris Interactive Poll showed just how unpopular men’s tennis is…it’s No. 14, which sounds like a decent number until you see that it’s stuck between horse racing and women’s soccer.

The sport lacks a certain je ne sais quoi that might make it stand out among the badmintons, horseshoes, and ladies lacrosse leagues of the world.

How can tennis make itself cool again? Maybe it needs another heated rivalry like McEnroe and Connors or a drug/cheating scandal like baseball and football. Or

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