Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal rivalry: Proof the New York Times
is wrong about 5-set matches  Roger Federer (The Associated
Press) Douglas Perry | By Douglas Perry | The Oregonian Email
the author | Follow on Twitter on August 28, 2014 at 10:58 AM,
updated August 28, 2014 at 12:39 PM  For two weeks of every
year, when the U.S. Open is going on in an outer borough, the
New York Times tries to care about tennis. To complement the
knowledgeable Christopher Clarey, the paper's editors deputize a
handful of features writers and tell them to produce something
substantive on the sport. What we get are stories like "Aching
for Change in an Unequal Sport," by Juliet Macur.  Macur opens
the article with 53rd-ranked Ivan Dodig writhing on the court,
his leg cramping. Dodig, she points out, had to retire in the
fifth set of his match on Wednesday. The article is liberally
illustrated with photographs of male players in agony, as if
they've just been brought into the light of day after weeks in a
Medieval torture chamber