Technology always wins. The Australian Open Tennis tournament debuted a moveable roof on its Stadium in 1988. It's been used innumerable times since. For rain. For excessive heat. Whatever. But television worldwide fans always know that there will be tennis, entertainment, available when they tune in. It's a guarantee. It's a technology promise.

Tennis is global big business. Yet the pooh bahs that run it treat it like a cottage industry. They just don't seem to care about certainty.

Wimbledon consistently tut tutted a roof.  The US Open rejected a roof. Other tournaments sniffed. This week the US Open has spent days giving back millions of dollars for rain outs, and, losing viewers as they stage washouts. That's smart?

Getting line calls right with hawkeye. Good step. But you have to have playable games.

Head in the sand, you see it everywhere. But its amazing when there's an example that works, that's doable, that's old technology now, and yet, is rejected. They wonder why tennis is still a second order sport?

Oh yes. And eventually? There'll be a roof. Even Wimbledon, now almost twenty years on has moved, just they didn't want to rush into it. But technology always wins.