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When leadership hides entropy.
By Javier Palenque
en· tro· py | \ ˈen-trə-pē a term mostly used in thermodynamics, but in our example, it means a process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder
1 : chaos, disorganization, randomness
This morning I got an email from a USTA executive who shall remain nameless, one of the old boys who likes me but is shackled in silence, and wrote. Javier nothing will ever change, this is the way the system works, you can write until you die and nothing will change, you can meet with all the old boys and nothing will change. They will smile at you and then laugh behind your back. This is the culture around here. The sport is doomed and though you are right, nothing will change. So I wrote back to him through his private email, because of course USTA probably tracks emails, remember they blocked me from emailing anyone, and said to him, let me tell you why I write.
First, not to change the USTA they never will they will soon disappear. But the way people perceive them has changed, and a lot. The competitive kids and parents want UTR, so they lost relevance there. Realize this is almost all the college prone players. The adults are aging out so they are into pickle ball or padel or cardio tennis, they have lost relevance there too. The general public could care less because the USTA failed…
