Growing up in a somewhat remote part of India, I would tune to BBC, Radio Australia to listen to test cricket commentary, on short wave. I have fond memories and owe a lot of my personal growth to SW.
I don't know all the history, but Magnus comes off as above the game.
“I am playing at least one more day here in New York and, if I do well, another day after that,” Really? And I saw another quote that said "f*k you"
Whatever his frustrations are with the governing body, the above are unacceptable behavior. I don't understand why they need to bend over backwards and modify the rules and mollify him.
He has also accused another player of cheating, after he lost, then he settles out of court. And he doesn't want to participate in the world championship, but chooses to make comments about the quality of games.
Of late, I have been googling a lot of SAS and may have contributed to its rise in ranking! Not coding in SAS but moving SAS to Python. Speaking of enterprise Java, there's a ton of enterprise SAS and it's moving to Python.
Not sure why you were downvoted. Fitness, equipment (racket and strings) are the reason if not the height. For height, above a certain level, say 6 ft 2 inch, it starts becoming a liability in movement. Tennis used to have a lot of variety in the past. Big serve and volleyers on grass, long baseline rallies on clay, slice backhands, flat strokes. Now it's monotonous.. the surface doesn't matter. The game with the most payoff is to stand back at the baseline and hammer the ball.
On a somewhat related topic, fitness has taken over many sports. In field hockey, dribbling used to be a skill. India was unbeaten for decades in Olympics, winning 8-9 gold medals. The introduction of artificial turf ushered in the era of strength and fitness, and the Western nations mostly took over.