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Stewards remove a protester after setting fire to the court on day one of the Laver Cup in London
If the United States wants international success in a game it built, maybe it should embrace the joy of the game rather than the unnecessary military pageantry, writes JAMES NALTON
A CLIMATE protester set part of the court — and himself — on fire during a Laver Cup match in London on Friday night.
The tennis event has drawn much attention as Roger Federer was scheduled to play for the final time before retiring.
The activist, carrying a lighter and wearing a white T-shirt with a message about private jets, made his way onto the black court and sat down near the net. He was carried away eventually by security guards, who quickly put the flames, and appeared to be unhurt.
Still the only black man to win the US Open tennis title, a statue of the legendary champion, Arthur Ashe, is now the only one remaining on Monument Avenue in his Richmond, Virginia hometown, where confederate leaders of the Civil War were also once displayed, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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ALASTAIR BONNETT reports on the paradoxes of populist attitudes towards protection of the natural world
