The women’s professional tennis game is entering a golden new era with a talent pool deeper than we’ve maybe ever seen.

Perhaps it is all too easy to look back with a sense of sorrow or pity at Del Potro’s career. On the surface, the story of the ‘Tower of Tandil’ appears to read as a simple tragedy.

But there are more layers to this story. Deeper lessons to be learnt.

Novak Djokovic has been released from detainment after a federal Judge reversed the cancellation of his visa by the Australian Border Force. Let’s recap what has happened, and more importantly - why.

The benefits of such a merger from a WTA standpoint are clear. While prize money and commercial appeal are closer across the ATP and WTA than at any point in the past, there remain veritable inequities between the two. A union of the tours is perhaps the best way to ensure total parity across the financial side of the game.