The core message of the weekend was hard to miss. “Tennis like never before” was written on the large banners that were clearly visible on the stands of the ball sports hall. Strictly speaking, that was of course a lie, after all, the Ultimate Tennis Showdown (UTS), the exhibition tournament with alternative tennis rules, was in Frankfurt for the second time. So it was no longer completely new what the eight professionals from the somewhat narrower and the somewhat broader world elite offered from Friday to Sunday. But it’s not completely normal either.
