Holding Serve
Imagine if Major League Baseball instituted a new rule: only pitchers can bat. The notoriously weak hitting hurlers would ensure a defensive duel. Extra inning games would be the norm as team batting averages of .100 would struggle to score a single run.

That's a little what watching men's tennis is like these days. For some reason, I'm keeping an eye on the Wimbledon final. Basically, it's just a matter of waiting for a player to break serve, to have a chance to win. 48 games in to the match and it's only happened 3 times (a worse batting average, even, than most pitchers). Unless and until it happens a 4th time, nobody will ever win. Ever.

There are many reasons to prefer women's tennis that I won't go in to here. But, this is another.

[UPDATE: Of course, as soon as I type that, Federer gets broken in the 49th. But still, for such a close championship match, "the best ever", they are saying on my teevee, it sure can get boring.]