Is there a comparison with lawn tennis?
The same applies to lawn tennis and rugby union.
There may be arguments as to what particular form of tennis one is teaching, whether it is lawn tennis or court tennis.
It waxed indignant about the shortage of covered and all-weather courts and on the poor lawn tennis facilities generally.
These people do not have the opportunity of seeing lawn tennis played in the best way.
Many lawn tennis tournaments will, similarly, have exemption.
I do not think, for example, that a figure showing the number of lawn tennis courts in the whole country would be much use.
That is a mirror of what has gone on in lawn tennis for the last 20 to 40 years.